Driving down from Puerto de Honduras, we were relieved when we had left the burned down area. On this side of the mountains, not the cherry but the chestnuts dominated the vegetation. Just outside Hervás, we found a lovely spot for the night and to our surprise, a market with music, food and drinks was […]
As the heat wasn’t over jet, we spent two nights at the dam just north of Plasencia, before we made our way into town. Besides of some cows, we had the lake to ourselves, could go for a swim and relax in the shade of our car. But finally the temperatures had dropped a little,
We started our exploration of La Vera in the east, in the village of Madrigal de la Vera, where we stayed at the camping and explored the old Roman bridge and the pools along the river. Next we stopped at the Devil’s waterfall, just that the devil was on holiday and there was not much
With Llerena and Zafra we visited two towns with lovely historic centres, city gates and beautiful places. The whole area was in the hands of the Order of Santiago after the Reconquista. The Moors were driven away from the area of Llerena in 1243 by the Spanish-Portuguese general and Grand Master of the Order of
Jerez de los Caballeros and Fregenal de la Sierra – two lovely small towns, disregarding their long names, which we soon might have difficulties to remember. But that’s what this blog is for! As we are at the border region to Portugal and Andalusia, you find strong city walls and castles in every town. The
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From our perfect spot at a lake, we were travelling through the south-east of the Extremadura, stopping at Olivenza and ending at the river Guadiana, where we found a beach with a chiringuito (bar/restaurant). Around the river Guadiana, the soil seems to be more fertile, and crops like sunflowers, corn and cereal gave the landscape
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We had read about a Dolmen north of Mérida, which we wanted to see. We visited some others before, in Andalusia and Portugal and were looking forward to this one too, as they are all different in their state of conservation. It is located in the middle of the Dehesa, where a small sign on
Mérida, once Emerita Augusta, was founded as a Roman colony in 25 BC under the order of the emperor Augustus. As one of the most important cities in Roman Hispania, it was endowed with all the comforts of a large Roman city and served as capital of the Roman province of Lusitania. The Muslims were re-using Roman walls
South of Guadalupe, we found this Via Verde called Via Verde Vegas del Guadiana, which leads from the river Guadiana north through rice fields and the dehesa landscape – pastures with oak trees. It is a 57 km long track between Villanueva del la Serena and Logrosán. This railway was not even completed before the
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In the very East of the Extremadura lies the Royal Monastery of Santa María of Guadalupe, for centuries the most important cloister in Spain, inextricably linked with the Spanish campaigns of conquest in America. The Catholic kings Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragón received Christopher Columbus here in 1486 and 1489. He made
