“I know of no one who has visited this place without being captivated by this breathtaking view”. This admiring phrase by the Belgian Hispanist Robert Guillon is inscribed on the wall of a small chape...
Appointed to the French department of the General and Technical Institute of Segovia, Antonio Machado arrived in the city on 25 November 1919. A few days later, he came to live in the boarding house r...
Patron Saint of the Community of the City and Lands of Segovia. Built between 1598 and 1613 by Francisco de Mora, as the Renaissance extension of the original medieval chapel on the site had become to...
This is one of the Gates in the Wall of Segovia, known in 1122 as the Puerta de Rodrigo Ordoñez.In the mid-13th century, it acquired its current name from the nearby church dedicated to St James, whic...
Originally, it consisted of two solidly built houses, possibly dating from the 16th century, which the Knight of Alcántara, Juan de Ortega Lara y Angulo, used to construct, from 1702 onwards, a single...
The San Francisco Barracks, situated at the foot of the aqueduct, houses the Segovia Artillery Academy Museum. Organised into four galleries —Portable Weapons and Miscellaneous Equipment, Materials, R...
