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Madrid itself is quite nice. We have seen the parks and plazas, Museo del Prado, a statue of Don Quixote and Sancha Panza, the old section and the original bull ring, the training school for matadors and Generalissimo Franco’s Palace. Madrid is the most modern city in Europe. We visited the very impressive Alcazar. At one time it was a massive fortress but it was almost totally destroyed in 1936 in the civil war and now almost reconstructed. They’ve left several of the rooms as they were, bullet riddled and have build the inner hall into a huge marble hall containing tombs and gilded memorials of all the war dead
We took a 30 mile trip to the Valley of the Fallen, a huge cross on the hill with a Basillica carved out of the mountain below to honor Spanish Civil War dead. Tomorrow we are going to Toledo for the day, Europe’s oldest city, walled narrow streets, home of El Greco and containing so many things of interest that the entire city is a Spanish monument.
On the way back from El Escorial, we saw a lot of police and civil guards so we stopped and asked what was going on. He said it was the Generalissimo’s secret and he wasn’t allowed to know. A bit on down the road we were waved to the side and here came 10 black Cadillac convertibles and the big Generalissimo Franco himself.
On the way back from El Escorial, we saw a lot of police and civil guards so we stopped and asked what was going on. He said it was the Generalissimo’s secret and he wasn’t allowed to know. A bit on down the road we were waved to the side and here came 10 black Cadillac convertibles and the big Generalissimo Franco himself.
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