Martin is not in Madrid

Cuenca is small regional capital about two hours on the south-east of Madrid. This city is small, but really impressionable. I was planning this trip long time. Most of Spaniards would tell you that it’s too small to go there… Well, we had something to do whole afternoon, so I can’t complain that it’s small town… And I have to say I liked it more than for example Toledo. Cuenca has also been declared as a part of UNESCO world heritage.

Finally I went there last weekend with Caroline, Thorsten, and Carmen. We departed at 12 from Madrid. Bit late because me, and Caroline, we of course couldn’t wake up after Friday. Thorsten with Carmen were supposed to go one hour sooner, but they couldn’t fit to the bus, so that was a bad luck. (and good for us, so we could go together).

The most spectacular in Cuenca are hanging houses (casas congeladas). They are several, up to seven floor tall housing growing up directly from the rock. They are not that impressionante if you don’t think about them in the context of surrounding nature, and the rock, and that’s really great. These houses were built in the 14th century. Some of them were used as the summer residence for the royal family.

So photos as usually:

Our crew – Thorsten, Carmen, and Caroline

Town hall

Cafe – Thorsten’s favourite thing to do [-;

Did you know that they don’t have ants in France?

There was lot of cats

Cathedral

Like Japanese photographers…

Roof in some church

All the pictures are HERE on stromecek.