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2012 - Study/Travel Trip: Spain and Portugal in Depth

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2012 Spain-Portugal Trip Map

2012 Spain-Portugal Trip - Filipa Fernandes, our great tour guide

Madrid - Royal Palace

Madrid - Royal Palace

Valley of The Fallen (Valle de los Caídos) is a Francoist regime monument, Catholic basilica and a monumental memorial in the municipality of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, erected at Cuelgamuros Valley in the Sierra de Guadarrama, near Madrid. It contains Franco’s tomb.

The Escorial

The Escorial - a vast building complex located in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, near Madrid, in central Spain. The building is the most important architectural monument of the Spanish Renaissance. Construction began in 1563 and ended in 1584. The project was conceived by King Philip II, who wanted a building to serve the multiple purposes of a burial place for his father, Holy Roman emperor Charles V, as a Hieronymite monastery, and as a palace. The complex contains a chamber with twenty-six marble sepulchers containing the remains of the kings and queens regnant of the Habsburg and Bourbon dynasties from Charles I to the present, except for Philip V and Ferdinand VI.

Madrid - Inventive street Performer

Madrid - Miguel Cervantes Monument

Madrid - Plaza Mayor

Madrid - Inventive street Performer

Madrid - Inventive street Performers

Madrid - Gathered around our tour guide with the Royal Palace in the background

Madrid - Plaza de Isabel II

Toledo - view of the city

Toledo - view from Toledo

Toledo - The Synagogue of Santa María la Blanca is a museum and former synagogue in Toledo, Spain. Erected in 1180, according to an inscription on a beam, it is disputably considered the oldest synagogue building in Europe still standing. It is now owned and preserved by the Catholic Church

Madrid - The Prado Museum

Cordoba - A city with many lovely courtyards

Cordoba - A city with many lovely courtyards

Windmills and Castle of Consuegra: Consuegra is a village in the province of Toledo and became famous for its windmills in the 17th century, when Don Quixote was first published. Consuegra Castle is on a site where previous castles have existed perhaps back to Roman times. After the fortress was taken from the Moors, the castle was ceded to the military order of Knights Hospitaller, by King Alfonso VIII in 1183.

Cordoba - The mosque-cathedral interior

Cordoba - The mosque-cathedral or “La Mezquita”,is an immense mosque dating from 784 A.D., featuring a columned prayer hall and older Byzantine mosaics. After it became a Catholic church in 1236, a Renaissance-style nave was added in the 17th century.

Cordoba - Taking a break next to the mosque-cathedral

Cordoba - The mosque-cathedral interior

Cordoba - The mosque-cathedral interior

Cordoba's ancient city walls. Córdoba is a city in the southern Spanish region of Andalusia, and the capital of the province of Córdoba. It was an important Roman city and a major Islamic center in the Middle Ages.

Granada - the Alhambra

Granada - the Alhambra - view of the surrounding area

Granada - the Alhambra: Granada is a city in southern Spain’s Andalusia region, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains. It's known for grand examples of medieval architecture dating to the Moorish occupation, especially the Alhambra. This sprawling hilltop fortress complex encompasses royal palaces, serene patios, and reflecting pools from the Nasrid dynasty, as well as the fountains and orchards of the Generalife gardens.

Granada - the Alhambra

Granada - the Alhambra

Granada - the Alhambra

The Rock of Gibralter

Tangiers beach - The coast of Spain is in the distance

Tangiers - Labrynth of streets in the old quarter

Tangiers - convivial lunch at a local restaurant featuring local cuisine

Tangiers

Tangiers - shoes anyone?

Tangiers Market olives

Tangiers - Berber women with fresh produce

Tangiers - view from the approaching ferry having crossed the Straits of Gibralter from Spain

Straits of Gibralter - The Rock of Gibralter is the white mountain while across the straits can be seen Africa and the mountain Jebel Musa. The two comprise the Pillars of Hercules described by the ancients

Malaga Bull Ring

Malaga street scene

Malaga Bull Ring

Malaga - Ruins of Roman theater

Malaga - Elborate float carried by a team of men in religious festivals

Malaga Bull Ring - young matador in trainging demonstrates his technique

Malaga - Local CHEERS bar

Ronda - Ronda is a mountaintop city in Spain’s Malaga province that’s set dramatically above a deep gorge. This gorge (El Tajo) separates the city’s circa-15th-century new town from its old town, dating to Moorish rule. Puente Nuevo, a stone bridge spanning the gorge, has a lookout offering views.

Ronda - tasting varities of Spanish ham

Ronda - The bridge across to the new town

Ronda - The bridge

Ronda - exploring the streets of of the old town

Ronda - the old part of town

Ronda - The bridge across the gorge connecting the old and new parts of town

Ronda - Looking down on the surrounding land

Seville - Plaza de Espana

Seville Cathedral - Tomb of Christopher Columbus

Seville Cathedral - Interior

Seville - The Alcázar - baths

Seville - The Alcázar

Seville - The Alcázar

Seville - The Alcázar

Seville - The Alcázar

Seville - The Alcázar - a royal palace, built for the Christian king Peter of Castile. It was built by Castilian Christians on the site of an Abbadid Muslim residential fortress destroyed after the Christian conquest of Seville. Although some elements of other civilizations remains, the palace, a preeminent example of Mudejar architecture in the Iberian Peninsula, is renowned as one of the most beautiful. The upper levels of the Alcázar are still used by the royal family as their official residence in Seville. It is the oldest royal palace still in use in Europe, and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.It was built by Castilian Christians on the site of an Abbadid Muslim residential fortress destroyed after the Christian conquest of Seville. Although some elements of other civilizations remains, the palace, a preeminent example of Mudejar architecture in the Iberian Peninsula, is renowned as one of the most beautiful. The upper levels of the Alcázar are still used by the royal family as their official residence in Seville. It is the oldest royal palace still in use in Europe, and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Seville - The Alcázar - entrance

Seville - waiting to visit the cathedral

Seville -Cathedral of Saint Mary of the See (Seville Cathedral) . It is the world’s largest Gothic cathedral and the third largest church in the world. Built between 1402 and 1506 in striking Mudejar, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, and Neoclassical styles, the Seville Cathedral was designed to epitomize the influence and prosperity of post-Reconquista Seville.

Seville - Street scene

Seville - Plaza de Espana - The Plaza de España is a plaza built in 1928 for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929. It is a landmark example of the Regionalism Architecture, mixing elements of the Renaissance Revival and Moorish Revival styles of Spanish architecture.

Portugal - Visit to a ranch that breeds and trains Lusitanian horses

Portugal - Bark harvested from the Cork Oak Tree

Portugal - Visit to a ranch that breeds and trains Lusitanian horses

Lisbon - a lecture from our tour guide

Lisbon - How does he do that?

Lisbon - Comercio Square

Lisbon - riding the Ascensor da Bica

Lisbon- The Coach museum

Lisbon - The Jerónimos Monastery - Tomb of Vasco Da Gama

Lisbon - The Jerónimos Monastery or Hieronymites Monastery, is a former monastery of the Order of Saint Jerome . No expense was spared when they built this masterpiece of Manueline and Gothic architecture in 1502, which was inspired by Vasco da Gama who is buried here with other great navigators of the past.

Lisbon streetcar

Lisbon - Rossio Square - note the optical illusion of troughs created by the layout of the paving stones

Lisbon - Saint George Castle and a view of Lisbon as seen from the Sao Pedra de Alcantara viewpoint.

Paulo and Largo do Calhariz, the nineteenth century funicular ascends one of Lisbon’s steepest hills, crossing the quaint Bica district on its way up towards the Bairro Alto neighbourhood. It’s considered Lisbon’s most picturesque funicular.

Lisbon - Monument to the Discoveries - Located in Belém was built in 1939 to honor the Portuguese Discoveries of the golden XV and XVI centuries. It is also known as Monument to Navigators.

Lisbon - Monument to the Discoveries

Lisbon - Tower of Belém - Built on the northern bank of the Tagus between 1514 and 1520as part of the Tagus estuary defense system, the Tower of Belém is a fortified tower and is one of the architectural jewels of the reign of Manuel I. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of the significant role it played in the Portuguese maritime discoveries of the era of the Age of Discoveries.

Lisbon - View from Edward VII Park

Lisbon - another clever street performer

Lisbon looking toward Comercio Square

Portugal - Cascais

Portugal - Cascais - a coastal resort town just west of Lisbon. It’s known for its sandy beaches and busy marina.

Portugal - Cascais

Sintra - The Moorish- and Manueline-style Sintra National Palace is distinguished by dramatic twin chimneys and elaborate tilework. Sintra is a resort town in the foothills of Portugal’s Sintra Mountains, near the capital, Lisbon. A longtime royal sanctuary, its forested terrain is studded with pastel-colored villas and palaces.

Sintra - View of Sintra from the National Palace

Sintra - the National Palace

Sintra - View from the National Palace

Sintra - Interior hall of the National Palace

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2012 Poetry Class Annual Valentine's Day Party

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Carlos Lago, 2012 Annual Valentine's Day Party

Betty Lee Thatcher, 2012 Annual Valentine's Day Party

Richard Risk, LLI Poetry Class Leader, 2012 Annual Valentine's Day Party

Don Reynolds, 2012 Annual Valentine's Day Party

2012 Annual Valentine's Day Party

2012 Annual Valentine's Day Party

2012 Annual Valentine's Day Party

John McClanahan, 2012 Annual Valentine's Day Party

2012 Annual Valentine's Day Party

2012 Annual Valentine's Day Party

2012 Annual Valentine's Day Party

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