We had such a great weekend in Burgos this week, so when sunday came we were ready to just relax and do something that did not involve dancing, beer, or wine lol. We ended up going to a party friday night that was being hosted by the study abroad coordinators at DonnaDonna, a bar right downtown in Burgos. This week people from all over Europe, Brazil, Mexico, and Turkey started school at the University if Burgos, so it was king of like a welcome party for all of us.
It ended up being an awesome night and I got to meet such great, fun people from England, Portugal, Brazil, Russia, Germany and many other places. Camila was one of the ladies from Brazil that I met that night and we decided to go take a look at the castle today, and just hang out and get some coffee after words. We had such a great time!! I am really happy to be getting to practice a little bit of my portuguese while in Spain too, because the first night we went out my portuguese was a little bit rough (let me tell you), kind of embarrassing to be from Brazil and have such a hard time speaking it at first. I just feel like my brain is kind of going on overload, switching back and fourth with 3 languages, it just wants me to stick to one at a time lol. I am really excited to get to know these people more, and get to travel with them all over Europe without having to fork over hundreds of Euros for hotels!! How great is that!
I wanted to give you all a little bit of history about the Castillo de Burgos so here it is:
The castle was one of the first buildings ever built in Burgos, and it was what started the population of the town. The town was completely built around and underneath the castle. The building of the castle dates back to 884. Count Diego Porcelos ordered by king Afonso III founded the castle which was meant for repopulating the area as well as keeping the muslim armies out of the region. The castle was almost completely destroyed in the 19th century due to the Independence War. So much of the area where the royal residence, and courts were are now not standing anymore.
This castle took major parts in many of the wars against the muslim armies, counting the war against king Sancho (the play in Ona I wrote about a couple of weeks ago).
Hope you guys like the pictures!!! I will have some more for you sometime this week. XOXO
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