eclipse tour 6 elciego

Hotel breakfast. Good rolls, coffee, cake. Stingy re yogurt. Not enough fruit. Meat and salami lovers paradise.

Laguardia, a medieval hilltop town that is mostly pedestrian with two major churches, one on the north and one on the south side. The one on the north side has the oldest polychrome collection, including a polychrome portal from the 17th century. The church was built in the 13th (gothic) and then redone with more added (totally baroque) in the 17th.

Mostly excellent eats.
La Guardia hilltop.

No cars due to soft underpinnings

Town street.
Centro ciudad.
Narrow streets with nice shade.

Nice tourist town, good to walk about in the am before the 95 degree heat sets in.

The great polychrome door.
More
Detail (church of Santa Maria).
Basically, a Son et Lumiere inside the church.

The only entrance to the church is via a paid tour, which is in Spanish. There was a document in English explaining the door polychrome and all the pieces in it.
Jimmy (major), fave apostle.
Gothic part.

Then you are admitted to the inside, which is closed to the public except by tour.

Retablo and altar.
Detail

Residence in the hotel includes this winery tour. Many tourists come for this “experience “. Especially good if you never toured Napa or other regional wineries.

In the wine cave- startled.
Tasting.
The tastings.

Along with discussion of color, smell, and notes of course.

Purchased a copa of this.

Just wanted to compare with the others. Yes, better and more to my liking but the others were also ok to good.

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3 Responses to eclipse tour 6 elciego

  1. Unknown's avatar Anonymous says:

    I’ve never seen this “Polychrome” before. It is beautiful!

    • boogkb's avatar boogkb says:

      We read about this before we went to the town. The tourist stuff didn’t tell us we had to have a tour to see it, but it was no big problem. They gave us a nice discount.

  2. Unknown's avatar Anonymous says:

    great trip. I am sure you are both enjoying yourselves.

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