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Day 3

Exploring Cuenca, the cathedral, famous bridge, our parador.

Day 3 selfie!

Bill's selfie of the day!
Giant stones

There are giant stones everywhere. Very cool! This starcase leads to a parking lot. We got lucky and parked right in front of the…
Cuenca by day

We headed out toward Cuenca, taking a million photos along the way.
Parador de Cuenca

We stayed at the Parador de Cuenca. It is the renovated Convent of Saint Paul, built in the 16th century.
Huecar River Gorge

A good shot of Cuenca and the Parador on opposite sides of the gorge.
Lots of photos!

This is the first trip that both of us had our own cameras so, as you can imagine, we took a LOT of photos!
Parador de Turismo

The Paradores are state-run hotels that are often in castles, palaces, fortresses, convents, monasteries and other historic buildi…
Saint Paul Bridge

The first Bridge of Saint Paul was built from 1533 to 1589 to connect the city with the convent. After the collapse, the current b…
History of Cuenca
Finally crossing

We finally took enough photos of the gorge and the city from this side, now we're going to cross the bridge.
Kris

A good photo of Kris.
Rooster

That must have been a farm down there in the gorge. There was a rooster down there corwing constantly.
Downtown

A view of downtown Cuenca from the bridge.
Las Casas Colgadas

The Hanging Houses! They are considered the most famous buildings in Cuenca. Built over a rock above the Huecar River gorge in the…
Crossing slowly

Crossing very slowly and taking pictures. IT was so pretty!
The parador

Our hotel, from the bridge!
Cool rocks

It was cool haw the building were built on the giant rocks.
To the hanging houses

Coming up to the hanging houses. Inside are a restaurant and the Museum of Abstract Arts.
Big group

The ridge looks kinda far away now. We were glad we missed that big group of people when we were taking pictures!
Neat old buildings

We liked the old buildings.