Medieval atmosphere and loads of storks.
Trujillo is a small town in the Extremadura region in the south western corner of Spain. The landscape is extreme dry and poor for traditional agriculture. So in this waste countryside you will find big ranches raising bulls for the bullfighting arenas across Spain, and you can find loads of the wild Iberian black footed pork roaming around in big areas feeding on achorn from the sparse oak groves. Doted in the landscapes are hills and small villages and towns, all with an ancient and romanic flair. This is also history country, the history of conquistadores, who sat out from their homes to explore and conquest the new land discovered on the other side of the big Atlantic sea, South America.
One of them is Fransisco Pizarro. From his hometown Trujillo, he sat out on an adventure to South America and became -among other things- the founder of Lima in Peru. And here we are talking about year 1500 something. Then the question is, how can a man from the middle of the Iberian peninsular, where we talk about hundreds of kilometres to the nearest cost, how can he ever get the idea to cross the sea to conquer an unknown continent?
This is him as a copper man on a horse, wearing a silly hat and overlooking the plaza mayor.
Overlooking him and the whole town is the storks. From the city's many towers they are nesting and feeding their still small (big) ones. For a Dane this is something special. Storks are not so common in Denmark, but they are there. Or rather, a couple find their way up there in the summer, and when they came it was the sign of summer. Here they are everywhere and the temperature is around 35 to 38 degrees, so you can for sure say that it is summer, can't you?
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