Spain Part 3 – Day trip to Sagunto

 

Lucia packed us lunches and we took the bus to the futbol stadium to meet up with all the students and took off on two tour buses to Sagunto. It was about a 20 minute drive, and we could see the coast and mountains for almost the entire way there. When we arrived, we were dropped off near the river and walked over to the old theater building that was our first stop. We were accompanied some of the way by an elementary school group who sang an interesting song that none of us could translate. We explored the Teatro Romano, which was destroyed in a war and then restored. You could tell where the original walls were because there were spaces for candles rather than electric lights. It’s hard to explain what it was like, but I have a lot of pictures which I will post when I get them uploaded.

From there, we walked uphill to the ruins of Castillo y la Plaza de Armas which was at the center of it. We had a good time exploring the ruins, there were great views all over it and though there were parts of it that had fallen down, it was easy to climb around them. Heather and I found an old graveyard off of the Plaza de Armas, and there was a hole in the floor with a huge rock which might have been from a catapult since there was nothing high around it for it to fall from.

I jumped down from part of the hill and managed to skin my knees. I thought it was funny since I wasn’t really hurt but Heather insisted that I clean it up using hand sanitizer.

We ate lunch in the sun on part of the hill. Alicia and I had clementines and turkey and cheese sandwiches with tomato and lettuce. Some of the people had bocadillos with chorizo and such. After that we did some more exploring, climbed up to the highest point in the ruins and took pictures, and then went back to the Plaza de Armas and walked back to the bus, stopping to look at the entrance to the Judía district and a cathedral with gargoyles that represent good and evil. We got back to the bus, drove back to Valencia, and Alicia and I made our way slowly back home. Our feet were really hurting at that point.

We had rice covered in eggs and tomato sauce (really delicious!) for dinner and then Alicia and I went exploring to try and find internet connection. We ended up finding the library where we could get connection, but it was already closed. We asked at a few cafes but we were unsuccessful. We walked around and explored a bit more before heading home and going to bed.