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  • @jabato9779
    @jabato9779 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

    German castle-palaces are really something you find in fairy tales. Not as sturdy as a real castle but very pretty.
    Picking 5 top Spanish cities.... oh, oh... not easy, depends on your taste. Well, historical medieval cities of the interior: Toledo, Salamanca, Segovia, Avila and Cuenca (actually having Madrid as your base makes sense here as you can access all of them in one day from there and Madrid is in itself very interesting). If you look for cathedrals: Burgos, Sevilla, León (I can add this one as the top 3 of beautiful cities along with Granada and Córdoba) and the cathedrals in the cities mentioned above. Those with nature around... you have much more of that in America already. But these are just snowflakes on top of the iceberg. I am still travelling around in Spain discovering corners. Study the posible connections of bullet trains, we have the best capillarity in Europe, actually.

  • @luisatrvus781
    @luisatrvus781 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +15

    03:51 The Segovia aqueduct is built without any type of cement, only stones carved with great precision and fitted with a perfect mastery of mathematics. The Romans built them 2000 years ago, and it is still intact.

    • @Average_Middle_Aged_American
      @Average_Middle_Aged_American  2 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      Mindblowing.

    •  วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Están unidas por grapas de cobre internas. Es un procedimiento arquitectónico similar al que une las piedras de las columnas griegas que logra así dar la impresión de que son piedras meramente encajadas.

    • @luisatrvus781
      @luisatrvus781 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      El Acueducto de Segovia consta de 120 pilares que sostienen 167 arcos, a su vez constituidos por sillares -piedras labradas en forma de rectángulo- y unidos sin ningún tipo de argamasa. Estos se sostienen mediante un perfecto estudio de las fuerzas de empuje entre los grandes bloques de piedra.

    • @Average_Middle_Aged_American
      @Average_Middle_Aged_American  วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@luisatrvus781 - Amazing!

    • @Average_Middle_Aged_American
      @Average_Middle_Aged_American  วันที่ผ่านมา

      ahhhhh

  • @AngelArnal
    @AngelArnal วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    That spooky thing you saw in Valencia is a falla, a temporary wood and papier maché monument. They work the whole year to build them in their workshops, they "plant" them in street crossings on march 15th and burn them at midnight march 19th. It's one of the biggest festivities in Spain. There are some 400 of those monuments all around the city, some simpler, some more complex, depending on the budget each commision has. The 6-8 biggest ones cost around half a million each. Tourism on those five days compensates the cost. We get over a million people from all around the world who come to enjoy the massive fireworks, twice per day, the food, the monuments, concerts, party all night...
    To me, top five cities in Spain is a really tough question. Barcelona, San Sebastián, Granada, Cáceres, and Salamanca come to my mind today. Tomorrow I could give you a quite different list.
    Five minor places I think are a must: Combarro, Sos del Rey Católico, Almagro, Setenil de las Bodegas, and Peñíscola. And Albarracín, I have to give you six, sorry.
    Five castles: Loarre, Alcázar de Segovia, Olite, Sigüenza (you can sleep there, it's a very good hotel), and Olvera.
    Five cathedrals: Burgos, Zaragoza (two cathedrals on the same plaza, I like better La Seo than El Pilar), León, Sevilla, and Santiago de Compostela.
    Five natural wonders: mount Teide, Ordesa National Park, Picos de Europa, Lagunas de Ruidera, and Geoda de Pulpí.
    My eyes are weeping from making this lists so short. I could be typing place names all night long.
    I've been to 47 of our 54 capital cities, plus hundreds of towns all around the country, and I can tell you it's an infinte country. You can't get a grasp of it if you don't live here and travel a lot.

  • @gromenhauer7403
    @gromenhauer7403 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

    9:08 Yes man, that's octopus and it's freaking delicious.
    I live in the south of Spain, Andalucía, at 85 Km form Granada, 150 Km from Málaga and 180 Km from Sevilla and I can confirm you those cities are really beautiful. Tapas in Granada are the best.

  • @BlackHoleSpain
    @BlackHoleSpain 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    Madrid Royal Palace only took 18 years to be built with the best architects and stonemasons. From 1738 to 1756. Not medieval times, they had a lot of resources in XVIII century.
    White House took some initial 8 years (1792-1800) and was not much more recent. It took another 15 years to be finally restored (1814-1829) after the 1812 war against the British.

  • @isabelrodriguez6717
    @isabelrodriguez6717 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

    You should visit the countries of Hispanic América. The arquitecture left there by the Spanish Empire would make your head explode.

  • @PolarisMidnightSoldierLux
    @PolarisMidnightSoldierLux 45 นาทีที่ผ่านมา +1

    I spent three months in Valencia, Spain last fall for a study abroad and it completely changed my life. I was able to visit Madrid, Granada, Tarragona, Sagunto, Castellón de la Plana, and plenty of small towns outside of Valencia. My mom and I actually spent two weeks in Castellón before my classes began and it's safe to say that we're now actively planning to relocate and pursue dual citizenship!

  • @anacasanova7350
    @anacasanova7350 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +9

    La Universidad de Salamanca es la segunda más antigua de Europa, después de la de Bolonia, en Italia, fue fundada en 1212 con el patrocinio del Papa, El Emperador del Sacro Imperio Romano Germánico y el Rey de León.

    • @Average_Middle_Aged_American
      @Average_Middle_Aged_American  2 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

      My university was founded in 1831.
      I thought that was old. 🙂

    • @bastiankraft3108
      @bastiankraft3108 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      ​@@Average_Middle_Aged_American I have been to two European university cities with new universities. New as in they have the word new in their name to differentiate them from older universities in the city. I cant recall exactly how old they were, but both of the "new" universities were over 200 years old, which I found rather amusing.

    • @carlosdearribacastro7580
      @carlosdearribacastro7580 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      @@Average_Middle_Aged_American En países como México o Perú hay universidades del siglo XVI y XVII construidas por los españoles

  • @tuanoestaenpeligro5701
    @tuanoestaenpeligro5701 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    España tiene más de 20.000 castillos , no palacios no es lo mismo . Entre esos 20.000 muchos están en un estado cuestionable en pie, habrá unos 10.000 cosa respetable, creo yo...

  • @SoyElLoboGris13
    @SoyElLoboGris13 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    As someone from the province of Zaragoza, im still waiting for someone to appreciate the beautiful city of Zaragoza. No one does and its the 4th most populated city in Spain and most people who do stopped there in a train travel from Barcelona to Madrid and vice versa.

  •  วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    I'm obviously biased because I live in Santiago (Galicia) but it's a great city. I'm sure you'd love the cathedral. And the octopus here is very traditional and delicious haha. 🤩🤩

  • @carlosdearribacastro7580
    @carlosdearribacastro7580 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Las principales para visitar cuando las conocen son Granada, Salamanca, Córdoba, Toledo y Sevilla, siempre que vayas a ver monumentos y construcciones históricas, si es para comer y disfrutar cualquier sitio de España, todos dicen Madrid y Barcelona pero cuando conocen las que he mencionado antes se alegran de haberlas conocido, hay pueblos medievales preciosos que están en el tercio norte de España, son joyas que verlas se disfruta de ver algo con muchos años de historia

  • @carlospf639
    @carlospf639 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    In a hypothetical case some foreign tourist wanted to do a 5 week trip to Spain staying as a central base in 5 different cities this would be my recomendation (I've chosen 5 locations with tottally different landscape, activities, architecture and gastronomy): 1) Oviedo 2) Toledo 3) Cadiz 4) Granada 5) Girona

  • @luisatrvus781
    @luisatrvus781 10 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    03:57 They are probably swifts (apus apus) or swallows (hirundo rustica)

  • @ializarg
    @ializarg 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    Those "spooky looking" statues at 10:00 are called "fallas".
    Large sculptural structures (50, 60 or 80 feet high) made of wood and papier-mâché through the year and depicting events, popular characters, etc of that year.
    Dozens if not hundreds are built in the city (some larger and some more modest) in each neighborhood and they compete for originality, humor, and spectacularity.
    They are often satirical (hence the caricaturesque appearance of some "dolls") and one night in March they are set on fire until they are reduced to ashes and thus exorcise all the bad things that happened that year.
    And the next day they begin work on the ones that will be burned next year...

    • @Average_Middle_Aged_American
      @Average_Middle_Aged_American  2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Interesting!
      Thanks!

    • @pedrolardies9597
      @pedrolardies9597 วันที่ผ่านมา

      A Japanese man, when he saw it, blew his mind, a year's work, burned in one night. 🤣😂

    • @mluisa-lu2ue
      @mluisa-lu2ue วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Son exactamente 390 monumentos grandes y los mismos pequeños, infantiles, con temática para niños. Se plantan (se colocan en las calles de toda la ciudad de Valencia) el 15 de Marzo (el 14 las infantiles) y se queman todas el día 19 de Marzo por la noche.
      Esta fiesta popular, las fallas, fueron declaradas patrimonio de la humanidad hace unos años.

    • @Average_Middle_Aged_American
      @Average_Middle_Aged_American  วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@mluisa-lu2ue - Neat!

  • @juanluissardinasauceda148
    @juanluissardinasauceda148 20 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    What you saw flying around the Segovia aqueduct were not bats, they were birds, they are birds called swifts.

  • @yomismo688
    @yomismo688 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    So many beautiful places here. When u coming to Spain for instance: Sevilla, Madrid, Barcelona, Granada,Valencia,San Sebastián, Toledo, Bilbao, Santiago de Compostela, Málaga, Valladolid, Salamanca, Segovia, Girona, Vigo, Cáceres etc...

  • @yomismo688
    @yomismo688 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    That's an octopus tapa, so yummy. We've got many different

  • @velzaresp8623
    @velzaresp8623 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Personally my favourite city to visit and stay 1 day walking around is Toledo. But never go in Summer. Is an oven. Last time I bought a tourist pass that allow you visit 7 historic buildings (12€) and later I eat a very nice "daily menu" and only cost me 10 euros. Just walking around and while visiting those places was a nice "medieval" experience. I've been in Toledo 3 times. If you like Roman stuff between Toledo and Cuenca there are the ruins of "Segobriga" (6€). It's small place but have a little of everything about romans, it's well preserved and was not very crowdy. We made a picnic with the roman ruins as landscape. Was really nice. Also I recommend to visit in spring.

  • @JoseLopez-vt8kd
    @JoseLopez-vt8kd 17 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Busca vídeos de estos castillos: Castillo de Peracense, Castillo de la Mota, Castillo de Peñíscola, y Castillo de Benavente.

  • @conigliostressato
    @conigliostressato 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    8:44 you never had octopus?! It’s utterly delicious.
    I’m not a big fan of fish, but octopi and squids are amazing.

    • @Average_Middle_Aged_American
      @Average_Middle_Aged_American  2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      I guess I will have to try it when we get to Spain!

    • @conigliostressato
      @conigliostressato 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @ i mean, i’m pretty sure you can find it in the US too 😅
      But yeah, i’ve never met someone who does not like octopus.
      Oh, and when you come to italy you have to try pasta with squid ink. A m a z i n g 🤤

    • @conigliostressato
      @conigliostressato 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @ in spain they make baguette sandwiches with fried calamari rings, and oh boy that’s brilliant (it usually goes with a nice glass of vermuth).

    • @ializarg
      @ializarg 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@conigliostressato Don't forget to add a bit of ali-oli in those "bocatas de calamares".

    • @conigliostressato
      @conigliostressato 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @ oh god, too long since i visited madrid 🤤🤤🤤

  • @therealzjr1462
    @therealzjr1462 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    You should do a reaction to top 50 Countries in Europe
    Or Top 48 countries in Asia

  • @mluisa-lu2ue
    @mluisa-lu2ue วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Hola. Como ya nos has contado lo que te gustan las catedrales, los palacios y los castillos. Yo te recomendaría Santiago de Compostela y Burgos(por sus impresionantes catedrales y barrios antiguos) Madrid (por su palacio real,sus plazas y sus museos), Granada (por la Alhambra, considerada una de las 8 maravillas del mundo) y como sólo pides cinco, no puedo dejar de recomendarte visitar mi cuidad, Valencia, su catedral, la basílica, la iglesia de San Nicolas y el palacio del marqués de dos aguas
    Un saludo desde Valencia!!

  • @Maria-mu4rg
    @Maria-mu4rg วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    for the beaches question: some places like benidorm are stacked but the beach where i spend my holidays is closer to the málaga one in population density

  • @ializarg
    @ializarg 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Considering the region and the way they fly, those birds at 3:50 it's likely that those birds are starlings.

    • @BlackHoleSpain
      @BlackHoleSpain 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Starlings fly in coordinated flocks (if that's the word in English, colective nouns in English are tricky). They seem to be swifts, those are birds that eat mosquitos at dawn or sunset.

    • @ializarg
      @ializarg 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@BlackHoleSpain Starlings fly in coordinated flocks in open air, not some feet above the traffic...

    • @melissamanci
      @melissamanci 20 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@BlackHoleSpain You are right, those are swifts. They come to Spain from Afrika in spring to reproduce, and they return back to Afrika after summer.

  • @p1ndarpahnt536
    @p1ndarpahnt536 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Take a look to the monastery of El escorial if you like simetry, beauty and massive buildings, you won't be dissapointed.

  • @Mumujalego
    @Mumujalego วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    The video is quite bad, for example, in Seville it doesn't show you the cathedral, and the Seville cathedral is the largest Gothic-style cathedral in the world. It also doesn't show you the ruins of Italica, which were also the setting for Game of Thrones, or the Plaza de España, where Star Wars was filmed, for example.
    In Granada the same: it doesn't show the interiors of the Almabra, which is the second most visited monument in the country, or its cathedral, which is impressive. But it does show Sierra Nevada, which isn't really in the city.
    It's a video that doesn't show even half of what each city has. Spain is the second country in the world with the most UNESCO World Heritage Sites, with +95 million tourists in 2024, it is the second most visited country in the world, and it will probably be the first in 2025, exceeding 100 million.

    • @Average_Middle_Aged_American
      @Average_Middle_Aged_American  วันที่ผ่านมา

      It is a short video for sure. I have others on Spain - please check them out! 🙂

  • @franciscomoliner1296
    @franciscomoliner1296 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    On the theme of cities to visit, all these are worth seeing, but so are many others. An advantage of Madrid is that you can spend 3 or 4 days in the city and then visit Avila, Segovia and Toledo which can be day trips. You should try the octopus, might be surprised. By the way, nothing wrong with steak, we have plenty of quality beef too. You might not be old enough to remember the tv add with Andy Grifith saying "A1 and Steak, nothing better in the whole wide world". P.S. no sauce needed if the beef is first class! Regards

    • @Average_Middle_Aged_American
      @Average_Middle_Aged_American  วันที่ผ่านมา

      I loved the Andy Griffith show. I just do butter and salt on my ribeyes.

    • @mercedesmolinamartinez3920
      @mercedesmolinamartinez3920 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​Mantequilla? Por Dios!! Solo la carne y sal gorda cuando la saques del fuego , 🤔🤦🏻‍♀️lo mismo el traductor no lo ha hecho bien, de verdad le ponéis mantequilla a la carne? 😅un saludo desde Toledo mi ciudad favorita, junto con Salamanca, Cáceres, Cuenca y Córdoba
      Y cientos de pueblos maravillosos @@Average_Middle_Aged_American

    • @Average_Middle_Aged_American
      @Average_Middle_Aged_American  19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@mercedesmolinamartinez3920 - I only put butter on steak. Give it a try!

  • @mluisa-lu2ue
    @mluisa-lu2ue วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Hola
    Por favor, activa los subtítulos de este vídeo
    Muchas gracias 😘

    • @Average_Middle_Aged_American
      @Average_Middle_Aged_American  วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      They are not turned off. There seems to be an issue with auto CC. I just deleted 1 second off video to re-process it. Let's see if that helps.

    • @mluisa-lu2ue
      @mluisa-lu2ue วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Si, ya funcionan. Muchas gracias

    • @Average_Middle_Aged_American
      @Average_Middle_Aged_American  วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@mluisa-lu2ue - Awesome! Thanks for checking out my channel!

  • @caballoloco100
    @caballoloco100 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    If you like castles and palaces, you would be spoiled by choice in Europe!

  • @cangrejitamora
    @cangrejitamora 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Los subtítulos están desactivados.

  • @FalcoSorreo
    @FalcoSorreo 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    8:32 If you ever go to Spain, try "pulpo a la gallega" (galician style octopus). It's really good. The best is in Galicia, for obvious reasons (although you can find good quality galician style octopus in many places all over Spain, if you know where to go).

    • @Ulexcool
      @Ulexcool 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      Dont ever ask for _"Pulpo a la Gallega"_ in Galicia tho... Ask for _"Pulpo a Feira,"_ thats how we call it here.

    • @FalcoSorreo
      @FalcoSorreo 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @Ulexcool 👍

  • @OfenderEsBueno
    @OfenderEsBueno 23 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    The video of the 5 cities is quite poor because doesn't show a big variety of images. And, precisely, many of their main landmarks do not even appear, or at least it doesn't give the amount of time required to see them thouroughly

    • @Average_Middle_Aged_American
      @Average_Middle_Aged_American  19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      @@OfenderEsBueno - 8 have many videos on Spain. Please check those out as well!

  • @carlosblanch5864
    @carlosblanch5864 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I think the birds are swallows

  • @Serpy116
    @Serpy116 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    Subtítulos..??

  • @juanluissardinasauceda148
    @juanluissardinasauceda148 20 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    The small city of Cáceres, in Extremadura, a region in the southwest of Spain, has a historic center that is a world heritage site; many scenes from the Game of Thrones series have been filmed there.

  • @MrTramborrios
    @MrTramborrios 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Nooo!!!....LOOOL
    They are not bats, they are birds belonging to the crow family, they are somewhat smaller.

  • @Ilar-en7lg
    @Ilar-en7lg 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    In Spain we don't have many castles (well, we do but many are in ruins and others were destroyed centuries/ years ago). Also, perhaps they are not as beautiful as they are in other countries, with the exception of the castle of Segovia which is beautiful, but we do have many cathedrals and they are beautiful.

    • @Sabemasporviejo
      @Sabemasporviejo 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      Yeah, we have ONLY more than 20.000 constructions, not many castles🤦‍♂
      "En España se estima que en la actualidad siguen en pie más de 20.000 castillos en distintas condiciones de conservación. Por su parte, La Asociación Española de Amigos de los Castillos reduce la cifra al tener contabilizados en su inventario más de 10.000."

    • @Ilar-en7lg
      @Ilar-en7lg 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @Sabemasporviejo Yes, and most of them are just a wall or a semi destroyed tower.

    • @Sergio-by1pc
      @Sergio-by1pc 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      We have other beautiful castles, not just that one. And in the video the walled city of Avila is missing, which is impressive

    • @sirenablanca2302
      @sirenablanca2302 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Hombre los hay muy bonitos como el de Medina del Campo, el castillo de Butrón y muchos más

    • @Ilar-en7lg
      @Ilar-en7lg วันที่ผ่านมา

      @sirenablanca2302 Sí, pero hay pocos realmente bonitos.

  • @CID1973
    @CID1973 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I'm in Málaga, that documentary is way too short.