Imposing. Of magnificent layout. The monumental spread of the Roman aqueduct has been elevated like symbol of a millenarian city and secular evocaciones. Segovia is its wall, its greater seat, its cathedral, its romanicas churches, its convents, its narrow streets and his palaciegas mansions. It is the encounter of cultures throughout the millenia. Roman, arabe, bean or Christian.
The city today vibrates with the same power and might that the majestic Alcazar of the Average Age symbolizes. In the Renaissance... The traveller will find in this city of dream, despues to cross it with pause, a magnificent viewpoint towards the calm landscapes of territories of Castile and Leon. Segovia is visited.
Benefit with the stroll by its large city of rancid ancestry, discovers buildings mudéjares, convents of epoca Isabelina and a great variety of fortified houses, characteristic of the city, shows of the art and lived history Segovia, beautiful and romantic Castilian city, declared Patrimony of the Humanity in 1985, around you take care of or historical helmet surrounded by bell towers, towers and walls.
Populated by the celtiberos, it was conquered by the Romans in year 80 to C. and turned an important military base. As a result of the war of the Communities against Carlos I, the city returned to decrease in importance, until on century XVIII Carlos III founded his Artillery school. Every time has marked the character of Segovia, doing of her one of the most beautiful and monumental cities of Spain. Of medieval structure and narrow streets; it gathers the inheritances of the cultures Christian, Jewish and Muslim. On the foundations of the small historical helmet, long ago surrounded by orchards and suburbs and today by well-taken care of strolls and gardens, the Segovia was arising that today we know. Segovia is so full of histories of people like of beautiful buildings.
This city was and continues being refuge of the art in Castile and Spain. Here the project of Antonio Machado, its Popular University dreamed up; and here projects of national fame work, like the theater Brave Juan, the Foundation Don Juan de Borbón, or the exhibitions of their numerous cultural and artistic foundations, like made in the House of the Tips or those of the Tower of Lozoya. The monuments are many that emphasize in Segovia: its románicas Churches, their walls... But if some monument must emphasize on the others, by his historical importance and its greatness, they must be three.