OCTOBER 2005-CUENCA

 In october 2005 Javi and me decided to spend a weekend in Cuenca, a precious town in Spain you can not forget to visit. You don’t need too much time to visit the city. With one day is enough and if you don’t want to visit any museum or monument, with a half day you have enough time. In the tourist office they will give you a map of the city with an itinerary walking by the old town. Is the best way to see it. Also exist guides tours, but you must to pay andi s necessary to be a group over 10 people. We prefered do it all alone and we loved it, is a very interesting and nice city.

The most famous in Cuenca are the Hanging House, wich is a house that is in the edge of an abyss and it looks like is going to fall. Is impressive. A long time ago lived people but now there is a restaurant and a contemporary art museum. Ist impressive and I'm sure you have a very good view from there. We didn't went inside, we only saw it outside. Closser to the Hanging House there is the San Anton's bridge, a hanging bridge wich pass above the abyss. From there you have the best views from the house, the photo is made from the bridge. This is not recommended for people who is afraid to the heights, because it gives dizziness, but is so beautiful and I recommend you try it and forget your fears. In the other side of the bridge there is an ancient convent that now is a very nice rural hotel.

Also the church and the old town are beatifuls. The next day we went to the Pleased City, wich is out of the city, but very close. It's question of a scenery replete with rocks that the time, the weather, the rain and the wind has eroded forming different courious shapes. There is one in the shape of a man's face, another wich looks like a mushroom, a tree, an elephant, ...There are some that you have to use your imagination to see the shapes but there are some others that you can see clearly. In addition to be a nice place, the sunny day with the blue sky made it was perfect.

After to see the Pleasant City, we went to see the Barth of the Crown River, which also is closer. There are not good indications and was hard to find it. Is also a very nice place and we saw the river but we didn’t be able to find its birthplace. Is a good place with a lot of forests. Then, we go to having lunch in ainn. In this kind of places you can have a very good meal, with a high quality and economic price. The specialties are the hounting meats, but you can also taste a traditional dish of the region, like ajoarriero, morteruelo, migas or trouts of the rivers in the closeness. Now, is time to come back home. Javi was driving through the road, lost between the forests and suddenly, at the moment with no were expecting, we found two deers in the middle of the road. They looked us and went running. It was only a second and we didn't have enough time to do a photo, but is a moment we always remember. There are such nice, in the wildness...Less evil that Javi wasn't driving very fast, because we could have an accident.

We had a very good weekend in Cuenca. You can see more photos in the next entry