Discovering León

Haloooo!

So this is where the real trip starts. ;)

gray shorts- H&M

Actually no, hihihi! We stopped by the city´s center first after depositing our things in the hotel and then later we visited this hotel-palace.

I took this picture during twilight, that´s why it´s dark. At the right side of the hotel (not seen here) is a church with a mini-museum. There was a wedding going on our first day here and so we weren´t able to get inside the church but... I was able to take a photo of the red and white vintage bridal car. ;) Sneaky!

Too bad I wasn´t able to see the bride, the hubz was itching to go back the city´s center and explore it more.

These are the remains of the ancient wall of the city. If you want a more preserved wall, visit my blog here about Ávila but you have to finish reading this post first before hopping to my other blog. ;)

stripe top- Promod, cami- Mango

The Catedral de Sta. María of León. This cathderal is huge, the photo above is just the facade. It was built between the 13th to 14th century and features no less than 1,800 square meters of stained glass windows and it has a beautiful rose window. From what I´ve seen, the stained glass here is much better than that of the Notre Dame in Paris. I´ll be showing you some of these artworks in my later posts.

The Casa de Botines was designed and constructed by the famous Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí. La Sagrada Familia, Casa Battlo in Barcelona sounds familiar to you? Gaudi designed all of that. ;) Since this post is a tad too long already, I´m leaving you with some random photos:

( clockwise: me sitting on a bench with a sculpture of a man reading( wow, we´ve got the same type of hat!), a lamp post with a wall clock and thermometer, some random sculpture on the street and an old ancestral dress from a museum)

Keep going back for more travel photos. Hope your week is going on well! :)

xoxo,

Che