Spain Post #2

Last weekend was very interesting. We went on tours of three cities outside of Madrid, Toledo, Segovia, and Escorial. On Saturday we went to Toledo. We began by going up this narrow little road to the side of a mountain in this huge tour bus. I was scarred to death, but when we stopped the view was amazing of the city. When we got into the town, we took a walking tour of everything there. We look at the churches all over the town. The way they were all painted was amazing. We also visited a grave site/ location of El Greco's famous "The Burial of the Count of Orgaz." They said that the painting is in its original form since El Greco painted it from 1586-1588.

On Sunday, we went to two cities beginning with El Escorial. This is where we visited the basilic church of King Philip II. It was huge and there were so many stories about it since it had been there since 1584. Now it is used as a church with monks and a boys boarding school. On our tour we went down below the church where there a grave monuments everywhere. Almost all of the Kings of Spain and their families were buried there.
The second city we visited that day was Segovia. This city wasn't really as exciting as the other two but probably because we couldn't understand our tour guide's spanish accent. The only exciting thing there was the Castle of Segovia. It was built in the 15th and 16th centuries.