TORO
We went to a winery to see how wine is made and had a wine tasting. For what is Spain, if there were no wine?
Sold in the US and around the world. They make great wine.
Me with a barrel of stage 2 fermentation....
Now it's time for the Cata (kah-tah) or wine tasting.
White wine wins!
ZAMORA
Zamora is apparently the second poorest city in Spain. We basically saw a castle, a cathedral, and walked around in the rain. Gotta love Spain Winter.
Zamora is known for it's Romanic Cathedrals. There are only 3 domes like that in the world and one is in zamora.
This is a castle that was built in the 11th century, then destroyed, then rebuilt, then destroyed...I think you get the picture.
The castle was a gift from King Ferdenand to one of his daughters. His son, being a machismo spainard, put her castle under seige because women shouldn't own their own properties. Needless to say, the queen was about to die, so she got one of her minions to escape through the castle walls, stab her brother, and then return to the castle ending the seige. Quite a controversial event.
After being wet, we went to an underground bodga in the middle of the boondocks spain where we basically ate fresh, smoked pig. Pig ribs, pig sausage, some people pig cheeks..pig..i don't even know what that was....
To top it all off, the area looked like the shire from Lord of the Rings. Needless to say, you would never know that this land is full of underground resturaunts......
Now I am in the dorm, I have taken a 3 hour nap, and I am going to get ready to go out. Bienvenidos a Espana (Welcome to Spain!)
Abrazos,
Ashley
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