Segovia

Segovia was our destination. Segovia is a town my parents fell in love with about twelve years ago. And it is the town I was created in! I had heard so much about it. Segovia is known for its Roman Aqueducts and castle. An Aqueduct is an old Roman water system. Water will slide down a series of stones into a water house. Then the water would be collected. The Aqueducts stand tall in the air and they are held up by arches. There are 167 arches in this Aqueduct. On part of the Aqueduct there is an arch in the middle too. The Aqueduct was made almost 2,000 years ago. I climbed one of them and I felt like king of the world (stone). By the Aqueduct we walked around in a square called La Plaza del Azoguejo. After the Aqueducts we steered toward the castle, called an Alcazar. The Segovia Alcazar dates back over 800 years ago. It was made upon a hill so that everyone for a long ways could see it. After the Alcazar was used as a castle it turned into a State Prison. In 1762 the Alcazar changed again into a Royalty Artillery School. About a hundred years later a fire burned down lots of the Alcazar. The Alcazar was fixed and later turned into a Military College. It is now a museum. We walked around the Alcazar. I got to see cannons used in the Royal Artillery School. They were huge. After sticking my head in a cannon and trying to make it fire we walked up the tower. The tower is the tall part where guards would patrol. We had to walk 152 stairs to get to the top. What a climb! At the top you could see miles. I could see every part of Segovia. From the view I could see lots of big birds nesting on the tops of trees. They were storks. Those must have been the birds that delivered me! The castle was great. We went to an ice cream shop two different days. On the last day I had a cone with a scoop of strawberry cheesecake and a scoop of white chocolate ice cream. I liked it so much that I can't wait to go to Segovia again.