fotos IV: the sister cities of Úbeda and Baeza

Cala Lilly in the courtyard of the convent near Abadat in Úbeda.


Blue skies over the convent.


Fountain in Plaza de Leones in the city of Baeza. The fountain is from the 16th century, the lions that adorn it are more than two thousand years old.


Graffiti on the wall of the old Universidad de Baeza. In Medeival and Renaissance Spain university graduates marked their accomplishment by tagging the walls of public buildings using the blood of bulls.


The street behind the Catedral de Baeza. On the left is the rear of the cathedral on the right is the wall around La Judería where the Baeza´s Jewish residents lived, almost completely isolated from the rest of the city, after the Christian Reconquest.


Preserved section of La Muralla, the wall of the city of Úbeda.


A stairway to the "road" around the top of La Muralla.


Look! More olive groves.


Irises growing alongside the road.


The entrance of the convent.