Situated 1132 metres above sea level on a rocky outcrop on the right bank of the Adaja river, Ávila is the highest provincial capital in Spain. It is built on the flat summit of a rocky hill, which rises abruptly in the midst of a veritable wilderness, a brown, arid, treeless table-land, strewn with immense grey boulders, and shut in by lofty mountains. Distinctively known by its medieval walls, Ávila is sometimes called the Town of Stones and Saints, and it claims that it is one of the towns with the highest number of Romanesque and Gothic churches per capita in Spain. It has complete and prominent medieval town walls, built in the Romanesque style. Ávila was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1985. The site originally consisted of the walled city and four extra muros churches. The number of churches included in the site has since been increased.
Unesco: Old Town of Ávila with its Extra-Muros Churches
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Date: Jan 23
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