Today was a very eventful day. I went to a small town called Carmona along with six other Acento students and friends that I have made here. It was so much fun!! We left on the bus at around 12:30 and the ride only took about 30 mins. Once we got there, we didn’t really know where to go. But we did see a cool tower looking thing a few blocks away and figured that would be a good place to start. (on the left in the picture below)
Once we got there, we saw that in behind it was a huge castle… so naturally we investigated that. We tend to be drawn towards the more extraordinary things, even though we have no idea what they are, or if they are actually important or just somebody’s house.
Anyways, we went up to it and found out at the information desk that it is called the Alcazar de Carmona, which basically means an old palace. The cost was only one euro for students to go up and look around, so we did! It was amazing… SO beautiful! Well, most of it just looked like ruins of an old castle… but the best part of it all was the view! It was incredible! See for yourself ;)
After eating lunch in the spacious sunny area pictured above, we left the Alcazar to check out the rest of the city. We had heard from Jonathan and his previous trip to Carmona that they have a tourist route marked by arrows on the floor that we could follow. Once we found it, we just followed it the rest of the day and were able to see some pretty cool sites!
That's all for now!
Really cool pictures allison. Are you involved with an outreach like jonathan? What is yours?
ReplyDeleteI am! and I honestly haven't seen this comment until now.. sorry! I go to the Convento de Santa Isabel every Wednesday night and teach English to the kids living there. They are pretty rowdy kids that like to act up sometimes, so it is challenging, but good practice for when I will be a teacher in the future.
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