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Hey everybody. So today we went to Segovia, about an hour north of Madrid. Segovia is probably the last stopping point for the Muslims as they controlled Spain over a millennium ago. Most of the architecture, therefore, has a very amalgamated influence from both Christianity and Islam. I have pictures and I´ll post some of them, but I´d probably rather show you in person. The three major places in Segovia, a small town, are La Iglesia de Vera Cruz (Church) y la Alcazar (Castle, in short Arabic). The Church was a crucial religious post for the Knights Templar during the 12th to 13th century and at one point allegedly protected one of the pieces from the cross Christ was crucified on. The Castle itself is famous for not only housing the Spanish monarch during the time when Fernando y Isabella united the Castillian and Aragon kingdoms, but also because of its unique look, which was the precise castle that inspired Walt Disney when creating the Disney castle for Cinderella. Also, there´s a Roman Aqueduct that´s pretty cool. Legend says that a women whose job it was to carry buckets of water from one town to the other made a compact with the devil in order to alleviate her stress. The Devil promised that he´d build her a way to get the water across towns with ease, and the conditions were that the Devil would finish it in a day. But the Devil only came out at night to work, so when the sun rose the next morning, he was one stone block short. His inability to finish the obra de architectura saved the soul of the woman, whose contract was null and void, but still had the devil to thank for the aqueduct. In reality, the one stone that´s missing is a result of the architectural integrity of the structure, the extra stone would have thrown off the balance of the engineering feat. It was pretty cool. Taking a nap now and then heading off to Atocha, and the famous discoteca Kapital (7 stories high) with everybody. Should be interesting. Ciao!