Segovia

This was such an cool, typical Spanish town. The aqueduct was awesome in-and-of-itself, but Segovia decided to throw in a massive dancing festival in front of the 2000 year-old, granite beast that day (see pictures below). I also went to my first-ever castle and saw the last period Gothic church constructed. Gotta say, I knocked on Gothic architecture all the time until I saw this thing. Absolutely beautiful, and the fact that it was built so late meant that its scale was ginormous. Spain doesn’t like people taking pictures of anything pretty, so I had to sneak some really crappy pictures after the nice lady told me to stop (I love how “Sir” is “Knight” here… waaaaaaaait, that’s the same. Wow, I’m dumb.). She didn’t notice and I didn’t use a flash… I’m sorry but WHY exactly can’t I take a photo? You want to sell more postcards?

View from a wall near the aqueduct over part of the town. the aqueduct cuts Segovia in half.




Random, outdoor folk festival that was right in front of the aqueduct with crazy (specifically) Segovian dancing.
I seriously thought about photoshopping that damn crane out of these shots, but I felt that would be a little lame...






The foot movement was crazy.


Sunset + aqueduct = impressive



The plaza at night.

Some Spanish looking street.


A famous monastery. The castle in the background.
Castle.

Crappy picture... awesome plaza.



AMAZING gothic cathedral.

Last gothic church built. Seriously HUGE scale. completely, completely ridiculous.

Here are some people for scale. The ones in the foreground don't work because they're between columns, but the ones in the background kinda do. Still doesn't do it justice and it's in the shorter wings. My camera didn't have a wide enough lens to capture this beast.




see, a dome... in a gothic church..

Castle! Got to go inside and everything... very cool.

view of the city from the castle. notice cathedral, town, and typical central spanish plains in the background.