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Checked out of the hotel in Salamanca and drove a bit under an hour to Zamora. The area immediately around the Cathedral is pedestrian-only-except-for-residents, and has increasingly-narrow-and-twisty streets as you get closer, so once I realized this I turned away from the Cathedral, got back to normal and legal streets, and (by a miracle of some saint or other) found a parking spot on the street, straight downhill from the Cathedral.
We walked up the hill and took the audioguide tour of the cathedral (your ticket receipt contains a QR code to download the audioguide, which I'm sure would work better if there were reliable cell reception inside the cathedral).
A good deal of the cathedral's interior decoration is 16th-century or later, but we found a few 15th-century paintings,
and the adjacent museum contains half a dozen large 15th- and 16th-century tapestries in excellent condition.
Then we left the Cathedral to visit the adjacent Castle, which has a mix of medieval, Renaissance, and 18th-century fortifications, with some ruined construction that looks 19th- or 20th-century. But the views are spectacular.
Also briefly visited the Iglesia de San Ildefenso a few minutes' walk away, had a not-very-good menu del día lunch at a local restaurant, and photographed a kite wheeling over the city.
Intended to visit the little Romanesque church in the fields seen above, which was near where we parked the car, but![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
shalmestere was too tired and just wanted to hit the road. So we drove onward, past Valladolid and Palencia, to Burgos. As we approached the hotel, we were once again on twisty narrow streets that are hard to distinguish from sidewalks, but were delighted to find that the hotel has its own underground parking. So we parked, checked in, and collapsed in our room. Whose window faces the facade of the high-Gothic Burgos Cathedral.
Tired and overstimulated. Will probably get dinner at some point; not sure whether it'll be Authentic Local Experience or Asian-noodle-shop comfort food.
For tomorrow, we hope to visit the Cathedral, the Romanesque Iglesia de San Nicolas next door, and the Las Huelgas Monastery (including the Museum of Medieval Textiles). Then drive to Madrid, return our rental car, and re-pack everything for the flight home.
We walked up the hill and took the audioguide tour of the cathedral (your ticket receipt contains a QR code to download the audioguide, which I'm sure would work better if there were reliable cell reception inside the cathedral).
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A good deal of the cathedral's interior decoration is 16th-century or later, but we found a few 15th-century paintings,
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and the adjacent museum contains half a dozen large 15th- and 16th-century tapestries in excellent condition.
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Then we left the Cathedral to visit the adjacent Castle, which has a mix of medieval, Renaissance, and 18th-century fortifications, with some ruined construction that looks 19th- or 20th-century. But the views are spectacular.
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Also briefly visited the Iglesia de San Ildefenso a few minutes' walk away, had a not-very-good menu del día lunch at a local restaurant, and photographed a kite wheeling over the city.
Intended to visit the little Romanesque church in the fields seen above, which was near where we parked the car, but
shalmestere was too tired and just wanted to hit the road. So we drove onward, past Valladolid and Palencia, to Burgos. As we approached the hotel, we were once again on twisty narrow streets that are hard to distinguish from sidewalks, but were delighted to find that the hotel has its own underground parking. So we parked, checked in, and collapsed in our room. Whose window faces the facade of the high-Gothic Burgos Cathedral.
Tired and overstimulated. Will probably get dinner at some point; not sure whether it'll be Authentic Local Experience or Asian-noodle-shop comfort food.
For tomorrow, we hope to visit the Cathedral, the Romanesque Iglesia de San Nicolas next door, and the Las Huelgas Monastery (including the Museum of Medieval Textiles). Then drive to Madrid, return our rental car, and re-pack everything for the flight home.