Segovia, Spain

It's Friday, September 21, 2018. We stopped in a small city located in the Central part of Spain. Segovia, which is an old town that is the home of One of the greatest surviving monuments of Roman engineering aqueduct

Segovia's most impressive monument is the colossal monument that makes the city stand out among other historical Spanish towns: it is Roman Aqueduct.

The Aqueduct of Segovia was built during the second half of the 1st century A.D. under the Roman Empire's rule and supplied water from the Frío River to the city. It is 2000 years old.

It is a symbol of the city, designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

View of the Segovia Cathedral, a Gothic-style Roman Catholic cathedral located in the main square (Plaza Mayor)

In Granada, on March 31,1492, just a few months after the final defeat of the Moors, the ‘Catholic Monarchs,’ Isabel and Ferdinand, promulgated The Edict of Expulsion, decreeing that the Jews in all of Spain had four months to either convert to Christianity or leave the country. This ended almost 300 years of Jewish presence in Segovia.

A Jewish community can be traced back to 1215, and for almost 200 years, there were few restrictions on their place of residence. That changed in 1412 when they were restricted to the area, more or less, around the present Cathedral, but things worsened in 1481 when they were forced into much more of a ‘ghetto,’ the area of this walking tour.

Decorative patterns on the facades

Small narrow streets in the Jewish Quarter

Jewish symbol with the shape of the Iberian Peninsula

Segovia Cathedral is the last Gothic cathedral to be built in Spain. Fronting the historic Plaza Mayor in Segovia, it stands on the spot where Isabella I was proclaimed Queen of Castile.