Antequera

Antequera - a largish town just over one hours drive east of Olvera.

The main reason for our visit was to buy Peppie, our lovely old dog, a new bed. Her old one of the beanbag type was getting a bit flat and we were finding it impossible to buy the replacement polystyrene type beads to refill it.........those of you that are dog lovers will understand. As long as your dogs happy then we're happy.

So off we went early and arrived about 9.30am, parked up and started to walk around to find the pet shops, previously researched on the internet.

Unbelievably, by 10am we had found what we wanted, returned it to the car and then proceeded to explore the town.

The first place of interest we came upon was the

cinema pictured above, decorated in what looked like "Art Deco" style and which appeared to be still in use.

The pics below are of the street scenes on our wanders. By the way, the temperature was recorded today at 22 degree's.

Walking towards the top of town brought us to the 14th century church of "Real Colegiata de Santa Maria la Mayor".

Unusually, there was no objection to the taking of pictures so the following are a few pics of the views from the surrounding walls and the of the inside. As always inside the churches we have been in, it was beautifully kept and ornate with paintings and icons.

The picture right is looking from the church back through the "Arch of the Giants" towards the town. The arch was built in 1585.



















The picture below is of the "Tarasco", sometimes half snake or dragon and half lady. It has seven heads depicting the seven deadly sins, governed by Faith (the lady) and the one below is a recreation of the Tarasco that was part of the Granada Corpus procession in 1760.
































A nice day out. More information on Antequera can be found at: http://http//www.andalucia.com/antequera/home.htm