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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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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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Entrance
Looking back at the entrance. There's a door because it's very cold down in the tunnels!
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Keystone
Keystone with cane coat of alcaniz
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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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Underground tunnels
Alcañiz has underground tunnels you can tour for 2 Euro. You enter through the tourism office.
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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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Plaza de España
Facing the Town Hall. It dates back to 1570.
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In town!
We made it to town.!
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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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Going to town
After the tour we started walking to town. We couldn't wait to check it out!
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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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Decorative ceiling
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Fall Calendar
A close-up of the calendar. You can see this is the fall section. The man is harvesting the wheat, they're turning it in to a drin…
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Close-up
Beauty and the Beast close-up
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Neat!
It was neat seeing the murals and some of them were still so complete.
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Wall piece
I believe they told us the window was cut in later and this mural was where the window was. This is a reproduction. The priginal i…
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Beauty and the Beast
The bottome part of the mural is a representation of Beauty and the Beast.
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Tons of murals
On the front and back of the arches. You can see some of the calendar and on the middle arch the king at the castle.
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Calendar
On the bottom of the arch was a calendar. Twelve paintings depicting activities that happened each month.
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Second tower murals
Very cool murals in the second tower! This is a battle.