Esperança to Sevilla

We have another blue bird day on our hands for a 416 km trip south east to Sevilla España. We had a few more castles to visit today, but if you stopped at all the hill top towns with castles the trip would take days.

We did visit the castle towns of Elvas and Monsaraz. Riding up to Elvas you can see the massive aqueduct. We rode up thru the castle town to the gate of the keep.

Monsaraz Castle is perched on the cliff at the end of the town. Here again we rode up to the keep.

We also lost an hour crossing to Spain and so we had planned to book it the last 100 km on the highway.

Our apartment is on a pedestrian street, but you can drive up to at least unload the luggage and the underground parking is just 100 m away. With the time change we didn’t arrive until 5 and so we didn’t do much other than wander a bit and stop for drinks and tapas.

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We booked another bicycle tour here in Sevilla, which is a great way to see a lot of the main sights and orient a first time visitor to the historic center. One important detail we learned was how long there has been human inhabitants here and how pivotal Sevilla was in history. At one time this city had exclusive trading rights between Europe and the Americas. We actually stood at the spot where the ship left from and returned to thar was the circumnavigate the globe.

We had a night out in the city and met up with our friend Jose who we first met in Morocco in 2015. He was also the one who by some miracle got us into the center of the Farias and actually up to the gate for a photo and into the celebration. 

Before we left this morning we visited the archives where they have stored all the documents detailing all the trade and exploration that took place in and from Seville.

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