Sometimes there are far too many worries in our lives. We worry about anything, seeing danger were it doesn’t exist. Fear is a powerful thing. It gets a grip on you and stops you from taking any kind of risk, makes you wary, and less critical. G. S. Rawling wrote: “We are tied by invisible – Read More –
The master puppeteers have arrived in Segovia. From May 10 to 15 thousands of people will invade the city to enjoy one of the most longstanding and biggest puppet festivals on earth – “Titirimundi”. Puppets have never gone out of fashion. They continue to fascinate children and bring out the child in us all. The – Read More –
The deafening silence that accompanies a snowfall never ceases to surprise me. I feel privileged when I take an early morning walk through the deserted gardens scattered around my city, just after the last few snowflakes have fallen. I can’t help but wonder why the city takes so long to wake up on days like – Read More –
Whenever it snows I try to go up to San Cebrián’s Gate, which forms part of Segovia’s city walls, to take photos of the landscape below. The gateway served to connect the city with the district of San Lorenzo and the old Dominican Convent which now houses the IE University campus. It’s impossible to survey – Read More –
The forecast said that a big snowstorm was on its way to the central regions of the peninsula. Nobody could have imagined that it was going to be the heaviest snowfall in Segovia for the last 20 years, bringing the city’s streets to a standstill. But every cloud has a silver lining. Nature brought us – Read More –
“Light does not fall upon Segovia, but rather it is the city that rises toward it.” So said the Andalusia-born poet María Zambrano (Vélez-Málaga, 1904-Madrid, 1991), a writer and essayist who spent her childhood and youth in Segovia where she met Unamuno and Machado, and drank in the mysticism of San Juan de la Cruz. – Read More –
One of the strangest fashions I’ve ever known is that which consists of carrying around a stick for taking selfies. A large number of the tourists walk around the center of Segovia with one. Whenever I see them climbing up the steep steps of the Postigo area to see the aqueduct in all its glory, – Read More –
Spring is the most unpredictable season I know. This evening a rain shower fell on Segovia’s Plaza Mayor. Nobody was expecting it. Only a few days ago Segovia was enjoying weather that was more like summer, and today you could be forgiven for thinking it was winter! There’s not an awful lot we can do – Read More –
Andrea’s merry-go-round heralds the arrival of this year’s edition of Titirimundi, the international Puppet Festival, held in Segovia from May 10 to 15. This beautiful carousel, inspired by the fairground attractions first created in the eighteenth century, is a veritable work of art, decorated with paintings of scenes and characters from novels by Jules Verne, – Read More –
The passers by looked like puppets in a Chinese shadow theatre with the Roman Aqueduct as the backdrop. The city center was suddenly darker because of this first snowfall of spring, and the snowflakes fell so thick and fast that I could hardly see what was happening more than a few meters in front of – Read More –