Day 5
Tour of the parador, walking through town, tour of the underground tunnels, back to the parador for dinner.
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Decorative ceiling
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End of the tour
A nice shot of the Parador from one of the towers at the end of the tour.
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Going to town
After the tour we started walking to town. We couldn't wait to check it out!
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Walking
To get to town we had to walk down the same small, steep road we drove up to get to the parador.
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In town!
We made it to town.!
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Plaza de España
Facing the Town Hall. It dates back to 1570.
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Church of Santa Maria la Mayor
We debated whether or not to go in to the church. It usually takes a while to go through a big church. W ehadn't eaten lunch and w…
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Underground tunnels
Alcañiz has underground tunnels you can tour for 2 Euro. You enter through the tourism office.
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Capital
Alcaniz castle capital with the cross of Calatrava and the symbol of the family of the Cervellón. It was in the first room in the…
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Keystone
Keystone with cane coat of alcaniz
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Entrance
Looking back at the entrance. There's a door because it's very cold down in the tunnels!
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Weights
These are weights used to weigh the ice. They used to pack these tunnels with snow in the winter and then in the Summer they would…
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Snow storage
They packed all of the snow in this underground room. It was quite cold in there and the ground was wet. By Summertime it was stil…
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Movie
They were playing a short movie about the underground tunnels.
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In to the tunnel!
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Long tunnels
They went on and on! Super long tunnels!
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Small tunnels
Bill in the tunnel! You can see how small the tunnels were.
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The end
We finally reached the end of one tunnel. It took a while!
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More tunnels
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Different tunnel
You can see this one was muddy.