Sagunto

This is going to be a record... Three blogs in three days! Unheard of!!!

This weekend on Saturday I took a day trip with Katie, Christine and Kristina to Sagunto. It is a smaller town about a 20 minute train ride away from Valencia. took the 12:40 train (cause we missed the 11:40 one).

When we got there we decided the best things for us to do was to find a tourist info shop where we could get a map. Well that took longer than it should have, but I did get to ask for and receive directions in Spanish. I understood them really well too! :) After we had our map we sat down and ate our lunch.

After that we started our climb up the hill. Basically all the sights in Segovia are on the same road that goes up the hill that the city is built on. We stopped by a church but it was closed so we couldn't go in. Then we walked through the part of the town that is known for being the part of town where the Jews once lived. (There is a ton of history of this place...)

Anyway onto the more noteworthy stuff... The ancient roman theater was really cool. It caused controversy in the past because part of the really ancient theater was built... but when they did it they left some sections untouched so you could see the really old theater too. It was really well done. I would have loved to attend a production there I could hear what some people standing at the bottom were saying while I was standing at the top and they of course didn't have microphones. Really magnificent sound!

Then we went to the castle/ruins. They were super amazing! It was really cool to be in a place with so much history. I feel bad cause this is all so hard to describe. There was a huge wall running along the hill connecting one part of the castle to the other. A lot of it looked pretty open. It wasn't really a castle like a fairy tale castle at all though. I suggest looking at the picture.

After spending probably 2+ hours exploring the castle area we headed down to head home. One more interesting thing happened though. At the train station there was a confrontation between the security guard and a person. Not sure exactly what happened but when we went out the security guard was bleeding and the man was holding the club she used to have. Bad news! :(