Tordesillas, Spain and Canary Islands

... must be delighted by the presence of all the traffic the new road will bring to their narrow streets. I could now see Tordesillas in the distance and was pleased to enter the town´s limits. It took no time to locate the hotel and a very hard day had ...

There was an excursion to Valladolid and Tordesillas, two cities to the southwest of Pamplona, planned by the office of Cultural Activities. I had thought the excursion was for students only, but evidently it was open to the public... because there was ...

... the Sculpture Museum (Museo de Escultura). Click here to see the museum´s website Then we travelled on to Tordesillas, we slept in a hotel there and the next morning we took a tour through the Monastery of Santa Clara (Monasterio de Santa Clara)La página ...

... in gold leaf, artesonado style. The town's other claim to fame is the treaty signed here in 1494 by the kings of Spain and Portugal, agreeing a division for discoveries in the New World.  The "House of the Treaty" is preserved as a museum with ...