The scent of damp stone and incense lingers along the cobbled lanes that converge on the Plaza del Obradoiro. Pilgrims arrive on foot, their boots worn thin, their eyes fixed on the towering baroque facade of the cathedral. Inside, the botafumeiro swings overhead, trailing clouds of fragrant smoke across the vast nave. The scallop shell, […]
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Castillo de Coca is one of the most beautiful medieval fortresses in Spain, a fairy-tale 15th-century Mudéjar castle in the province of Segovia, Castile and León, whose walls and towers are built not of grey stone but of warm red brick decorated with intricate geometric patterns, blind arches, and glazed tiles in the Mudéjar style, […]
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