Happy Anniversary to us!
A relaxed start was followed by an excellent, varied breakfast. We walked the
short distance to the tourist office through the pretty Plaza de la
Constitucion with its two fountains, monuments and bandstand. Well, that should
have been the case but the whole plaza was undergoing major works and was cordoned
off. I am sure that it will be lovely once they have finished.
The tourist office is in a lovely building in a beautiful square with a large
arched town gateway and another building with an elaborately carved façade.
Surprisingly, the latter building was the town slaughter house. This is the
second impressive slaughter house that we have seen in Spain – not something
that we see in the U.K.! We were lucky in that, unusually for Spain, most of
the sights that we wanted to see were open on a Monday and we were able to see
almost all of the historic buildings in the compact centre.
Being a Monday, many of the restaurants were closed but we had booked the Mamma
Juana restaurant which was just a few steps from the hotel. As is often the
case in Spain, we had to eat late – they didn’t open until 20:30. It was a
different type of restaurant to those that we had been to so far in Spain. It
was tapas-based but the dishes were more like a Michelin starred restaurant,
beautifully presented and very tasty and there house wine was also very good.
Altogether, it was an excellent meal and a lovely way to celebrate our
anniversary. As we returned to the hotel, we heard another band parading, with
their route taking them close to us.
Photos: The Baeza tourist office; A carved Last Supper scene in the cathedral;
A view from the cathedral tower – it got quite exciting (and loud) at noon when
the bells started ringing!; We got lost in a maze of alleyways and there were
lots of these raised, covered ways between the properties, probably belonging to
the cathedral; Jane sharing a bench with a fellow book lover; The low-key Mamma
Juana restaurant – highly recommended.
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