Spending some holidays in Spain at the moment. We arrived on Saturday in Madrid and then went to Don Benito on Sunday. It is a small town at 3.5 hours driving from Madrid, in Extremadura, a state in the center of Spain bording Portugal. Very nice. The area has lots of antique roman buildings to visit. We were yesterday in Merida, about 60 km away from Don Benito, where we visited lots roman ruins like a stadium, a theatre, various houses and roman roads, as well as an incredible roman bridge that is still in use today and is a couple of hundreds meter long! Definitely worth visiting.
It’s funny, because around here there are lots of villages or small town with well known names. A village beside Don Benito is named Medellin. There are just a couple of thousands people living there. But it is also the home village of the spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes, so no wonder that there is a city in South America, in Colombia, with that name. Merida, is also a name found in Equator and some other place around the world. Although I am not sure why.
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