We wanted a break from the big city so we caught a bus to Segovia, a small town surrounded by farmland and hills 1hr ou of Madrid. Here we saw a Roman Aqueduct and a fairytale like "Alcazar" or castle as well as another Gothic style cathedral. In the evening we had a very nice buffet meal where we tried some local dishes including Paella, a sort of seafood risotto, and Gazpacho, a kind of cold tomato soup.
The aqueduct across the main part of the city
We followed these signs through the old city which is where the aqueduct used to extend to
The Alcazar castle
We walked around the castle grounds and around the bottom of the wall along the river
The aqueduct was used to supply the town with water. This huge wall extended 17km from the mountains bringing fresh mountain water along the top of the wall in a channel. Its a world hertitage site and one of the most intact Roman Ruin found.
The wall extended all the way through town between buildings
This is the channel at the top of the wall where the water used to flow
We tried the traditional dish 'Paella' which is seafood risotto with prawns and mussels
We enjoyed our big feed at the buffet
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