Day 3
Exploring Cuenca, the cathedral, famous bridge, our parador.
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Day 3 selfie!
Bill's selfie of the day!
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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…
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Cuenca by day
We headed out toward Cuenca, taking a million photos along the way.
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Parador de Cuenca
We stayed at the Parador de Cuenca. It is the renovated Convent of Saint Paul, built in the 16th century.
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Huecar River Gorge
A good shot of Cuenca and the Parador on opposite sides of the gorge.
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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!
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Parador de Turismo
The Paradores are state-run hotels that are often in castles, palaces, fortresses, convents, monasteries and other historic buildi…
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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…
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History of Cuenca
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Finally crossing
We finally took enough photos of the gorge and the city from this side, now we're going to cross the bridge.
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Kris
A good photo of Kris.
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Rooster
That must have been a farm down there in the gorge. There was a rooster down there corwing constantly.
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Downtown
A view of downtown Cuenca from the bridge.
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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…
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Crossing slowly
Crossing very slowly and taking pictures. IT was so pretty!
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The parador
Our hotel, from the bridge!
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Cool rocks
It was cool haw the building were built on the giant rocks.
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To the hanging houses
Coming up to the hanging houses. Inside are a restaurant and the Museum of Abstract Arts.
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Big group
The ridge looks kinda far away now. We were glad we missed that big group of people when we were taking pictures!
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Neat old buildings
We liked the old buildings.