My trip in Spain - Andalucia

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VISITED CITIES
- Llafranc - Barcelona (Ciudadela, zoo, aquarium, Caravella, Gothic Quarter, Cathedral, Montjuich, Piazza di Spagna), - do Caves St Jose UXO in Vall de, - Sagunto - Elche - Granada (Alahambra, Generalife) - Sevilla (Barrio of Sta Cruz, Maria Luisa Gardens and Piazza di Spagna) - Cordoba - Aranjuez - Madrid (visit the Prado, Guernicapiazza Colon and its waterfalls, Plaza Mayor, Royal Palace, the throne, medieval weapons ) - Gurdos (Cathedral and the tomb of "El Cid") - Bilbao - Andorra - Limoges (pottery)

TRAVEL DIARY
- Wednesday, August 1
Milan departure 6.00 am, a meeting with friends who share the journey. Highway to Turin, then Santhià, deviation to Aosta. At the end of the stage in Aosta for breakfast. Mont Blanc Tunnel (14,000 toll). Highway to Geneva, then turn off for Annecy and Chambery and then Lyon. Exit at La Tour de Pin for Vienne: This supply of food for lunch. Highway shooting for Marseille, traffic backed up to Orange, for the Parisians direct to the sea. In a service Valance after lunch. Continue your journey on the motorway until the Franco-Spanish customs and then to Gerona, then exit Palafruguell: it's 17 and we covered 1100 km, we decide, then stop: Hotel El Paraiso in Llafranc. We stop 2 days. In the afternoon visit to Calella and Palafruguell.

- Thursday, August 2
Staying in Costa Brava to Llafranc. In the morning bath to Aigua Freda. Afternoon bath at the port of Llafranc but the presence of jellyfish.

- Friday, August 3
Llafranc morning bath. Afternoon departure to Barcelona and they visit the city Segrada Favilla, walk in Plaza Cataluna and the Ramblas.
(Expo Hotel Barcelona)

- Saturday August 4
Visit Barcelona, Parque de la Ciudadela, zoo, aquarium, and garden snakes. Caravel of Columbus, Gothic Quarter and the Cathedral. Montjuich and the amusement park, roller coasters, go-kart, train. Piazza di Spagna, dinner at a restaurant, concert and dance of the fountains and lights.

- Sunday August 5
In the morning left Barcelona to Valencia. Visit the beach of Benicàssim, fashionable seaside resort.
A Nules found Versailles hotel, horrible.

- Monday, August 6
Visit the Caves of St Jose in Vall de Uxo (my father is delusissimo: had seen in 1968 and they were beautiful, now they have extended and have taken away many stallattiti and stalagmites). Sagunto in the afternoon where all the shops are closed to turn. After the afternoon on the beach, very sandy, near Sagunto. Lunch on the beach in a kiosk.

- Tuesday, August 7
Nules left, visit the Roman town of Sagunto, the museum and theater.
Highway shooting in Valencia, then Benidorm and Alicante. Elche to visit the 'palm of Care': dates and cactuses. We continue the trip to Murcia, Lorca night at all 'hotel Alameda.

- Wednesday, August 8
Morning departure to Granada, it was entered in Andalusia, we visit the homes carved in the mountains, but with television (funny antennas that emerge from the soil), the lady offers us fresh water and shows us the house.
Mountains covered with cacti and plains canions with erosion. Villages of white houses. Visiting one of these homes. Climb to the pass of Mora 1390 m from where it dominates the Sierra Nevada snow white. A Granadadormiamo to Condor. Visited the Cathedral, the Royal Chapel with the tombs of the kings (Queen Isabella), typical streets around the cathedral, visit the church of St Jeronimo and St Juan de Dios.

- Thursday, August 9
A visit to Granada dell'Alahambra, splendid buildings and the Arab Generalife gardens filled with water and fountains. Pomegranates and jasmine.
In the afternoon departure for Seville: Here we have taken the htel Sevilla. In the evening during a visit to the Cathedral, the magnificent tomb of Christopher Columbus in marble, with 4 Spanish kings who carry the coffin.

- Friday, August 10
A visit to Seville Barrio of Sta Cruz then, in wheelchair, visiting the gardens of Maria Luisa and the Piazza di Spagna. In some ways recalls Venice. Previously visited the Alcazar and the Gilard less beautiful than those of Granada. Departure to Cordoba. Niza hotel here where we had a close encounter with the cucaracha between the sheets by night to remember!.

- Saturday August 11
Visiting the Cathedral: Arab mosque deturpata vast transformation in the church, the Roman bridge. Sightseeing in wheelchair ballonzolante. Afternoon departure for Aranjuez. During the journey, almost in the middle of the desert populated only by sparse cacti and scorched earth without even a house spotted a bar that also has the animals: the beautiful lioness and two terrible Susy monkeys.

- Sunday, August 12
Aranjuez to stay at Mercedes. After breakfast, visit to Toledo, lunch here in a cellar of an old building, to return Aranjuez, visit the Royal Palace and the Casita del Labrador, all surrounded by secular trees.

- Monday, August 13
from Aranjuez, in Madrid Visit: Colon square and its waterfall, Plaza Mayor, Royal Palace, the throne, medieval weapons, medicines. Back to Aranjuez.

- Tuesday, August 14
Leaving from Aranjuez. A visit to the Prado Madrid, closed the Italian department. Beautiful paintings of Rembrandt and Tiepolo, and the whole section dell'800 Painters. Visited Picasso's Guernica, where the controls are rigid entrance. Afternoon transfer to the north. Visiting the Cathedral of Burgos: la tomba de 'El Cid'. Alle 23 attained Bilbao: sleep at Duque

- Wednesday, August 15
Departure from Bilbao, with the Atlantic coastline. Before stopping in San Sebastian Beach, throughout the morning. the sea is at low tide, resumed after lunch on the trip to France. We stop at the Hostellerie Du Parc Pau: very nice hotel.

- Thursday, August 16
Leaving from Pau in the rain, arrived in the afternoon to Andorra in the rain and fog. Pas de la Casa and Miguel de Fra. Encamp found to Rosaleda hotel, where I had stayed in 1970: management of the hotel is changed, are now half-board: 360 FF / g. Visit the shops and Encamp Les Escaldes.

- Friday, August 17
Leaving from Encamp with the sun. Stage at Pas de la Casa to purchase a free port. Queue for customs, about 1 hour. after a couple of miles divide us by our friends who go to Perpignan and back in Liguria, north toward us. We arrive in Limoges at 19

- Saturday August 18
Visit to the ceramics of Limoges, then departure for home. Clemont Ferrant, St Etienne, Vienne, Chambery, Albertville, Col de Petit St Bernard, we are now in Aosta night and decide to stop by my grandmother in Piedmont.