This blog started as an activity for my TIC lessons, in a high school located in Aguilar de Campoo, Palencia, the north of Spain.
So, I have to talk about this beautiful village (or town, as you want). It is a quiet place (or that's what their inhabitants say...), where there are thousands of incredible places to visit. Maybe it has not 7 stars hotels as Dubai, or a 13m tall letters like Hollywood, but I am completely sure that it worth to visit Aguilar de Campoo.
It has around 7.000 inhabitants, and it is located down the mountains called Montaña Palentina, in the Cantabric mountain range. With two schools and a biscuits factory, the town has a bit of night life on weekends.
The main square is always full of people, especially children in the hotest afternoons of the year, playing football and running around the square. There are also terraces from bars in summer, where you can sit and relax while you see the people running from one place to another, been always busy.
On Tuesday morning you can walk between the market stands. Here, you can find different types of food, such as garlic, ham, chorizo, fish, meet and candy stands too. Food, clothes, pans and kitchen utensils, books, magazines, antique objects and lots of many other different and weird things are sold in the market every Tuesday morning.
If you don't like cold weather and snow, don't come to Aguilar on winter, because winters are cold and wet, usually with snow in the mountains surrounding the valley. Summer is a great time to visit the town. You can go to the reservoir's beach to swim, sumnbathe and relax, walk in the forest or sleep in the camping near to the beach. The reservoir is also an incredible place to have lunch, a picnin on the sand or in the picnic area next to it or in one of the three restaurants.
See you in Aguilar!
Beautiful place!
ResponderEliminarThe main church of the town was full of scaffolds and I coudn´t enter. Why were there so many builders one month ago?
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