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Guadix - east of Granada. A charming old town with ancient cathedrals, but best known for its cavehouses
Guadix cavehouse		 Inside a Guadix cavehouse - looks much like the whitewashed interior of any traditional Andalusian home
Guadix cavehouse - inside		 Peniscola - slightly touristy little town in Valencia - has nice beach and lovely old castle
Peniscola - castle		 Peniscola - we had a pleasant lunch at outdoor tables overlooking this beach walk
Peniscola - paseo		 We arrived during a festival - this area was full of balloon vendors and bizarre fiberglass statues and tableaux
Peniscola - festival square
The Peniscola castle is not just a tourist attraction - people are living in the old houses inside the walls
Peniscola - castle/walled town		 The festival in progress involved repeated ear-splitting barrages of firecrackers inside the echoing castle porticullis
Peniscola - Festival of Noise		 There are also lots of little shops and rather pricey restaurants within the castle walls
Peniscola castle		 And, of course, at the highest point inside the walls, the historic church. Closed for renovations when we were there.
Peniscola - church		 The Delta of the Ebre - the view we got of the delta as we drove across it was far less scenic than this.
The Delta of the Ebre 
Olives are everywhere in southern Spain, but seem especially representative of Valencia
The Everpresent Olive		 Not the greatest picture in the world, but so representative of the change in the countryside as you cross into Catalonia
Catalonia		 I don't know if this is actually the same church we saw n the walled town of Montblanc, but I don't know that it's not.
Romanesque church - Montblanc?		 Poblet Monastery, near the Catalonian town of Montblanc.
Poblet Monastery		 Poblet - the church
Poblet - the church
Poblet - the church
Poblet - the church		 Poblet Monastery - the tour starts here.
Poblet - the front gates		 A fine example of Cistercian architecture ...
Poblet - 		 ... dating from the 12th - 14th centuries
Poblet - facade up close		 Poblet altarpiece - wow.
Poblet - the altarpiece
Poblet - Altarpiece closeup
Poblet - Altarpiece closeup		 Yikes! The illuminati were here too!
Poblet - 		 Very expensive medieval tombs, provided as a perk to especially generous noble patrons
Poblet - 		 Note the outstanding central location of the tombs, right in the main nave
Poblet - 		 The cloister of the Poblet abbey, where the monks washed their hands and refreshed their spirits
Poblet - cloister
The library ceiling. Interesting to compare this to the columns in Gaudi's modernista Sagrada Familia Cathedral.
Poblet - library ceiling		 The monks' dormitory. Again, this traditional style is refreshed and revisited in Gaudi's Pedrera
Poblet - dormitory		 Beautiful art nouveau labels, displayed on posters at the winery.
Codorniu Winery - labels		 The same family has been running this world-famous winery for 500 or 600 years, making fine cava (Spanish champagne)
Codorniu Winery - 		 These buildings were designed around 1900 by one of the premier Modernista architects from Barcelona
Codorniu Winery - Modernista 
The modernistas updated the old Cistercian arches with a parabolic form, but kept that churchlike feeling
Codorniu Winery - 		        
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