Storage never looked so good. Caceres, Spain

Damascus, Istanbul and…Cáceres. Wind up the narrow lanes of Europe’s third biggest intact medieval city and emerge from the labyrinth near the Plaza de las Veletas. Scan for the palace with the strange ceramic gargoyles and enter the museum. Breeze past Roman statues, Visigothic tablets, and prehistoric pig carvings that prove Spaniards have always had a thing for ham… just when you think you’ve seen everything, creep through a claustrophobically small door and scale down some narrow steps, the cool dampness will reach you first. In the penumbra, beautiful Moorish arches reach down into the water showing you the world’s third largest intact Arabic cistern (aljibe). Who knew?

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