TOWNS AND STREETS
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We spent hours and hours strolling the streets of large cities and small towns. In many ways, all modern cities look pretty much the same. But it was the differences, especially visible in the smaller or older places, that prompted us to raise our camera: |
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Many places are still surrounded by old medieval walls: |
The Alhambra was an entirely enclosed fortress and
town when it functioned as the seat of government for Muslim Spain |
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One of the gates to the city. Toledo |
Remains of a tower in the walls of Girona |
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Gate to the Jewish quarter of Cordoba |
Ronda.
One of the entrances to the old Muslim sector of the city |
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Streets are always a delight in Iberia. |
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Castello da Vide – a typical hilltop town in
eastern Portugal. |
Tilework on the exterior of houses is very common in
Portugal. |
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Our hotel window. Evora, Portugal |
Laundry hanging outside seemed a regular street
scene in Portugal |
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Cordoba |
Granada
Posters, tilework, window boxes – this one place had everything. |
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Street through the old wall of Toledo. Note the
dropping gate |
Toledo |
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The Call (the old Jewish street) in Barcelona |
Girona, Spain |
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In the “White Towns” of southern
Spain. Grazalema |
Arcos de la Frontera, another of the “White
Towns” |
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Folks have lived in these caves outside Granada for
generations. |
House in Granada |
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From time to time a doorway would call out to be photographed |
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Doorway of a Jewish home (there’s a mezuzah
slot) from pre-expulsion times.
Evora, Portugal |
Door of an old synagogue in Toledo |
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Toledo |
Toledo |
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Arcos de la Frontera, Spain |
One of the exterior doors to the Great Mosque in
Cordoba |
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House in a hillside cave. Granada |
It’s not really a doorway. It’s the interior courtyard of
the house we stayed in in Cordoba |
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Medieval Synagogue. Castello da Vide, Portugal |
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