Day: January 3, 2024

After dinner I decided to have a walk around town to get some night pictures. I’d noticed earlier they had a lot of lighting that would project onto the medieval walls, so thought that’s worth checking out.

All the day tourists had gone and I was almost the only one walking about. Great opportunity to get some more pics. On the map Segovia looks quite big but you can easily walk from one end of the old town to the other.

After checking out the museum, the Alcázar and walking around just looking at the amazing Aqueduct we had dinner at the restaurant right next to it called “Meson de Candido”, another restaurant that’s been in operation since the 18th century.

The building is amazing, lots of exposed hardwood timber, low ceilings, narrow staircases. Every firefighters worst nightmare but historically and architecturally amazing. The restaurant even has a stone well right in the centre of the ground floor. Unfortunately I didn’t get a picture of that.

The food again was fantastic. Sharon had a fish dish, I had chicken Fricassee and Emma had a lovely piece of grilled veal. They are renowned for their suckling pig, I would have had that but I’m starting to reach my pork limit (if there is such a thing) it’s wonderful here but I’ve had so much already. If you are what you eat, oink oink!

The bill came and it was less than €80, which we thought was way way to cheap, then realised they had forgotten to charge for the wine. When adjusted it was €90, which I’m still amazed how cheap that is for a main dinner in such an historic place. Table wine here is way way cheaper than at home

After the museum we walked around to the Royal Alcàzar. Another spectacular building. Looks like it was built yesterday! Incredibly high on the side of a hill, almost get vertigo just looking down. I can’t imagine how hard this must have been to construct back in the day.

The detail on the ceiling design in a number of rooms is amazing and I loved the geometric designs and colours on the tiles. Don’t skip this if you come to Segovia. It’s easy walking distance from the aqueduct

There is a well at one section, you could see down and it looked deceptively shallow. I dropped a one euro coin in and it took a few seconds before you heard the splash and at that point it was clear the well was very very deep. No wonder it has bars across it.

One of the best value museums I’ve ever been into. It’s highly under-rated, an amazing number of artefacts from Segovia from prehistoric through to modern times. This town has been through a lot. Super quiet, we were the only ones here, the bus and day tourists seem to bypass it. Excellent and only €1 per person for entry.

It’s not massive so if you are in a hurry you can go through quickly but you could also spend well over an hour. To take full advantage you will need to have google translate running on your phone unless you can read Spanish, but don’t let that discourage you. It’s worth the time and effort.

Coffee at the aqueduct this morning ! We got an 8:43 high speed train from Madrid, I think we spent longer on the metro getting to the rail terminal than on the actual train. I thought we would have heaps of time at Charmartin station, except it was a complete rabbit warren of construction and it took us ages to find the platform. I also thought we would see lots of Spanish countryside on the way, but between kilometres of tunnels through the mountains and fog, saw basically nothing. What we did see reminded me of the granite stone peppered fields around Goulburn at home in New South Wales. The aqueduct is just stunning up close. I would really like to see the museum where they explain everything about the aqueduct, but I’ve picked a day when it’s closed.

Just having coffee and breakfast close by, stunned at how much cheaper than Madrid it is, breakfast for the three of us for less than €8. Coffee was quite good too