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Segovia
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After Toledo,
SEGOVIA
is the outstanding trip from Madrid. A relatively small city, strategically sited on a rocky ridge, it is deeply and haughtily Castilian, with a panoply of squares and mansions from its days of Golden Age grandeur, when it was a royal resort and a base for the Cortes (parliament). It was in Segovia - in the unremarkable church of San Miguel, off the Plaza Mayor - that Isabel la CatA?lica was proclaimed queen.
For a city of its size, there are a stunning number of outstanding architectural monuments. Most celebrated are the
Roman aqueduct
, the
cathedral
and the fairy-tale
AlcA?zar
, but the less obvious attractions - the cluster of ancient churches and the many mansions found in the lanes of the old town, all in a warm, honey-coloured stone - are what really make it worth a visit. Just a few kilometres outside the city and reasonably accessible from Segovia are two Bourbon palaces,
La Granja
and
RiofrAo
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