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5 days ago · (Translated by Google) Vejer de la Frontera (Cádiz). It is one of the most beautiful towns in Spain. Declared a Historical-Artistic Site in 1976. The Arco de la Villa is another of the entrance doors to the walled area of the city. It is thought that it was the main door. Next to it is the Town Hall and further down the Plaza de España.
5 days ago · One of the prettiest is Zahara de la Sierra, which overlooks a giant reservoir and features the remains of a Moorish fortress clinging to the mountainside. Rolf 52/Shutterstock
4 days ago · This UNESCO World Heritage Site will look awfully familiar to you, with its giant boulders, mountain–top fortress and crumbling walls, and that’s because it’s the ancestral seat of House Targaryen. It might be a little disjointing to see Dragonstone without all the dragons, but you’ll still get to enjoy incredible views. 6.
Listened to "Catherine de Medici, Renaissance Queen of France" by Leonie Frieda. This was a 3 star biography for me. For the first time after reading a biography of a powerful woman, I believe she was overall a terrible person, and not a particularly fascinating one.
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4 days ago · Satellite view of the Yucatán Peninsula. The Maya civilization occupied the Maya Region, a wide territory that included southeastern Mexico and northern Central America; this area included the entire Yucatán Peninsula, and all of the territory now incorporated into the modern countries of Guatemala and Belize, as well as the western portions of Honduras and El Salvador.
4 days ago · Juárez, liberal lawgiver and savior of the nation, and Reform Liberalism, Mexico’s closest thing to an official civic religion, have spawned a fertile historiography and become permanent features of the cultural landscape, inscribed on statues, busts, portraits, murals, shrines, and memorials; on the ritual calendars of schools, states, and the nation; and in the nomenclature of streets ...
5 days ago · Probably the most famous of Andalusia's pueblos blancos (white towns), Arcos de la Frontera is topped by an imposing 11th-century Moorish castle and the Basílica de Santa María de la Asunción ...
