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together: no cement, no mortar, nothing.
Its entire 800 m length and 30 m height
has stood intact purely on the strength
of its amazing engineering. No wonder
mediaeval Segovians thought it was a
creation of the supernatural!
On the day we reached, almost all the
60,000 residents of the city were out in its
main square, attending a literary festival.
The air was charged with music, the sun
shone and the skies very blue—Spain in
its full glory!
The Castle: If you were a bird, you’d
probably stop midflight to gawk at this
fairy-tale castle that seems to loom up in
the middle of nowhere.
The Alcázar, the Arabic al-qasr
(fortress), was built in the Roman times,
rebuilt in the 13th century, burned
down in 1862 and was reconstructed
afterwards. So what you see is not
the original thing, but it’s magnificent
nonetheless. This is the castle that
inspired the design of Walt Disney’s
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