Tuesday 18th March 2025 – El Visor de Visor, Spain

We were fed up with the rain and getting wet, so we prepared for the worst – I wore my walking trousers and Jane wore her smart new wellies. It was very overcast and threatening to start with but it brightened up with blue skies and sun – the warmest day so far.
We went to the museum and had a chat with the lady on duty. She said that she couldn’t understand the weather – it never rained like this and the land was always brown not green as it is now. The museum was very good and excellent value at €2 for seniors, including an audio guide that gave very good explanations. There were beautiful mosaics and a special exhibition about a famous matador from Ecija. There was a display of many different colours of tight matador costumes covered in sequins.
We moved on to the Church of the Discalced, a very elaborate Baroque building both inside and out. We have a coffee and cake before leaving Ecija and driving to El Viso de Visor.
We stocked up at supermarket on the outskirts of the town before coming just off the top of the hill to the aire. It is a lovely aire with views for miles across the plain and a public park next to it. We had a wander around the park, which was a little damp in places due to the rain. The park is based around a spring that was very important to the village, providing all of its drinking water. There was a large pool into which the spring poured and the water was then channelled through the park. Above the park and on the edge of the hill was a large area obviously used for fiestas. Many large, partially open stands were owned by groups or families and they would be used for feasting during events.
Dinner was taken in the van where I cooked a traditional Spanish dish of pork steak cooked with fino sherry.
Photos: A Roman copy of the famous Wounded Amazon sculpture in very good condition – beautiful but I couldn’t see any sign of a wound; One of the lovely mosaics in the museum; An example of a matador’s outfit; On our way back to the van we came across workers laying cobbles and, something that you wouldn’t see in the UK, there were more women than men in the workforce; view from the festival area looking back to the town, with the aire in the middle distance; Some of the many stands in the festival area.