• Italica – Roman Ruins near Seville

    Before heading to the airport for our flight down to Marrakech, we decided to make a quick pit stop at Italica, which is one of the more significant Roman ruins in the area. They had an amphitheatre about half the size of the Colosseum in Rome and a little town…

  • San Miguel Castle in Almuñécar

    One of the main features of Almuñécar, Spain is Castillo de San Miguel or, in English, San Miguel Castle. The fortifications were originally built in the 1st century B.C. by the Phoenicians and Romans.  The Moors however, developed it into a massive fortress with 40 towers.  In 1489, Christians took…

  • Día de Andalucía Fiesta in Almunecar

    Last Friday we got to attend our first real fiesta in Spain.  It was celebrating Día de Andalucía, which celebrates the day Andalucía voted to become an autonomous community of Spain.  I’d figured that was a long time ago, but in fact it took place in 1980. Overall, it pretty much…

  • La Sagrada Familia Church in Barcelona

    One of the highlights of our trip to Barcelona was visiting La Sagrada Familia. The Basílica i Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família is a large Catholic church designed by Antoni Gaudí.  It was less than 1/4 complete at the time of his death in 1926 and currently its about 1/2…