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!Avila!
Pictures, etc.
...from Avila.
Avila is a splendid city with Europe's best-preserved medeival walls. There are eighty-eight turrets in the wall
and we got to walk a good portion of the perimeter of the city. We also stayed here one night in a Parador.
What's a Parador? This is a Spanish government-run hotel (there are many in the country) which is located in a key
or special building. In Avila, the Parador is in a 16th-century castle. They are always top, 4-star accomodations.
We'd recommend them to anyone traveling in Spain.
Arriving in Avila.
View Avila from a distance.
Los Cuatros Postes, from which you get a great view of the city.
This was a carnival day and a little devil was posing here!
The bell gable we could view from our Parador room.
Detail on a Cathedral door.
One of the 88 turrets.
Rich and Ellen. Note the mountains in the distance!
Dan and Ellen climb the walls of the city.
The gothic cathedral in Avila, viewed from the wall.
The Parador.
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