Aug 2006

I don't need to say anything about Moya, this ghost village is just wonderful and so thought my friends.

Cañete was just different than I had imagined, knights games where great but after it there wasn't anything interesting to do but eating, the dinner was expensive and didn't seem as... medieval as it should be, the market was neither, it was too late to visit the ruins of the castle so next time I'll go on Sunday... soon.

Next weekend camping, where is still the question? Denia (Alicante), Peñíscola (Castellón) or somewhere inland in Valencia...

Some months ago I spent some days with my girlfriend in Cuenca, a spanish region between Madrid and Valencia.

One of the most beautiful villages we found there was Cañete. The village is walled and has an arabic castle, a big fortress in ruins, some interesting buildings and the charm of the former Castilla.

Castilla la Mancha, placed between Madrid in Valencia has had during last two centuries a lack of population and economic, what has allowed to mantain the old spirit of its medieval villages.

This village celebrates every first weekend of August the "Alvarada" after Alvaro de Luna (c'mon look fore info in Wiki). This is a medieval festival with music, tournaments, meal, markets... It sounds good. We were recommended to come this year and tomorrow we will be there, let's see!

Oh! Don't forget, last time when we were there, we visited Moya, a ghost town on the way from Valencia to Cañete, with a castle, six churchs and completly walled, it was one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen. We eill make a brake there to show it my friends.