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We arrived yesterday in Madrid, back from a short week in Extremadura. It was a nice journey. We visited some other nice pueblos. Caceres about 80 km North of Don Benito, where we saw nice roman and arab ruins, in particular a few towers around the antique city along with walls protecting against invaders. Caceres shows a nice mix between the original roman style and arab constructions. We went also to Guadalupe, a village in the mountain at 1.5 hour driving North East from Don Benito. There we visited an old monastery, where lots of antique christian objects in the purest Spanish and baroque tradition have been conserved. We did finally a short stop on Thursday in Medellin, that I mentioned already in my last post. There we saw of course a statue of Hernan Cortes. I am wondering if this guy is worth admiring, considering what has been done by the spanish conquistadors in South America, where the native peoples were persecuted, their culture and language largely cannibilized by the spanish invaders.