Snowy Spring

What a change! do you remember the sunny days in Ávila? It started snowing yesterday morning. It means a great joy for us, a Spring present, we were already suffering an ugly drought.
The town looked like it in the evening.

A blossoning tree in San Roque Walk showed its pink and now white flowers.

El Grande, almost solitary in the windy snow.

The lions around the cathedral, their heads covered in white waited for visitors to walk to them and take photos.

San Vicente, The Walls feeling the refreshing cold of snow.


San Roque Walk getting dressed with the white gown.

Our towns are alive. They don't rest, they change, move, surprise us. Like human beings.

Sharing our place

You are always welcome in our house, any time you want.

Making our place your place, showing you either public or hidden treasures, sharing our history, culture and art are the best way to understand each other.

Our heritage does not belong to us. We belong to it. We are part of it. This is why our stones, out quiet streets, our ancient music and our language can be helpful to meet ourselves, our very personal inner castle. You are also invited to make this journey into yourself.

Getting Busy

Everyone is getting busy these days: growing, blooming, searching for love or just watching the others do so. Here are some of them.

An urban sun.

"Don't be shy, darling, let's build a nest." He has straws in his beak, see?

Watching the birds.

A Tower and an Inn

These are images you might have seen before in our materials: an old water tower renovated and turned into a publicity object in front of a mall. It looks out of place, but at least it was not demolished.

And an old inn, the Linden Inn, built in the center of Bucharest, near the Old Court and Manuc's Inn, in 1833 to host merchants traveling in this area, turned into an 1400 sqm art gallery the biggest in the country.

New customers at La Casa de Postas

La Casa de Postas was built to provide travellers and their horses with lodgings and food in those old dangerous journeys in Europe. Thye were also used as an exchange place for letters and parcels.
Romans built them at the intersection of the main roads.
But when the Roman Empire disappeared paths and roads became dangerous because of thieves.
The basic structure was a construction around a yard with two different bodies, one for the travellers and the other one for their horses or donkeys.
La Casa de Postas allowed communication among the countries in Europe until the railway era.
This one in Ávila is a replica of an XIX century Casa de Postas. It is opposite The Walls.
Nowadays, it is a restaurant. Threshing machines and straps decorate the entrance.
New customers for an old building.

Old domestic hardware

These three pottery jars and the basket belong to a village house at the beginning of the XX century. Practical everyday tools for the kitchen.
The first jar on the right was used to cook the family stew. The second one was used to keep sausages and meat in oil and the third one to keep cheese in oil.
The basket kept fruit or potaoes. They were always in the pantry by the kitchen. They were absolutely important containers in a house where there was not electricity. No ovens, no fridges.
What do I use them for today? The basket contains pieces of cloth and wool I keep. And the jars contain wrapping papers, old posters and the umbrellas. Still some use, although not so important.

A copy

This is: a replica of Vlad the Impaler's fortress at Poienari hiding a water tower, turned into a barrack for soldiers and then a shelter for the workers taking care of the flowers in the Carol Park.
Is that recycling?