Leaving Ávila, we drove to Cáceres. Once again, the GPS helped us get quite near to the hotel on the outskirts of the city. After checking in we caught a bus to the city centre.
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| A romantic statue of Hernán Cortés |
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| Rafa and a modern statue of a news seller |
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| Monumental Cáceres |
We got to the museum at two o'clock, just as it was closing.....until the next day. The old city is magnificent, but not very..tourist friendly. Hot! The highest temperature we encountered was 39°C, on the road the next day.
Maybe the best bit was the views from the "Concatedral"; not a cathedral in its own right but with a village called Coria.
The next day we drove to Mérida. It's a modern city with the biggest collection of Roman stuff outside of Rome.
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| amphitheatre |
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| working theatre |
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| aqueduct |
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| House of Diana |
A Roman temple used to form a Rennaissance house; you can see both in the ruins. I took this photo from the terrace of a bar in a side street.
The biggest surprise was the circus. There's more here than any other in Europe. It was so hot, though!
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