Zafra

Spain, Zafra

These are our photos taken in Zafra, Spain in 2022.

Zafra

Our priority was lunch

We only stayed one night in Zafra, a town in the western part of Spain, and returned to Caceres in the afternoon of this day. We had a reservation for the 3:35pm bus,…

Zafra

Alcázar is now a hotel

Next in Zafra, a town in western Spain, we went to Alcázar. Alcázar means a castle or a fort, and our guidebook describes it as a “castle”, but it seems more appropriate to…

Zafra

Life of nuns

The second day in Zafra, a town in Spain near the border with Portugal, was cloudy and chilly unlike the day before. If you walk from Plaza Grande to Calle Sevilla, the shopping…

Zafra

Dinner on the day

It’s dinner time in Zafra, a town in western Spain. The restaurant at Hotel Plaza Grande, where we were staying, had been praised on the internet, so we went to see it, but…

Zafra

Lovely hotel and town walk

Zafra, a town in Extremadura, Spain, is an Andalusian-like white town, so much so that it is sometimes called “Little Seville”. We stayed one night at Hotel Plaza Grande, a hotel located…

Merida

Spain, Merida

These are our photos taken in Merida, Spain in 2022.

Merida

Light lunch and off we went to Zafra

After visiting the Roman bridge and the Roman theatre and stadium in Merida, a town of Roman ruins in western Spain, we were quite tired and hungry. So we decided to have a…

Merida

Roman theatre here, too

There are many Roman ruins in Merida, a town in western Spain. It is described in our guidebook as ‘a must to see in Extremadura’. Within the town, the highlight is the Roman…