Avila

Avila is a Spanish town located in the autonomous community of Castile and Leon, and is the capital of the Province of Avila. It is sometimes called the Town of Stones and Saints, and it claims that it is one of the towns with the highest variety of Romanesque and Gothic church buildings in line with capita in Spain. It has complete and distinguished medieval town walls, constructed within the Romanesque fashion.

The city is also known as Avila de los Caballeros, Avila del Rey and Avila de los Leales Avila of the Knights, the King and the Loyalists, each of these epithets being present inside the metropolis popular. Orson Welles once named Avila because the region in which he might most desire to live, calling it a "atypical, tragic location at the same time as creator Jose Martinez Ruiz, in his ebook El alma castellana The Castilian Soul, described it as "perhaps the most sixteenth-century city in Spain.

The first public competition after the wintry weather cold is the Holy week. The temperature is bloodless, particularly at night time, so one have to not forget heat clothes. Avila holidays are October 15, Santa Teresa de Jesus, and May 2, San Segundo. The festivities take vicinity around October 15 and the Summer Festival in mid-July. Holy Week as celebrated in Avila is taken into consideration of national traveler interest. It is one of the highest expressions of artwork and wealth as seen in severa steps of Holy Week along the town walls. Processions have either or fifteen or twelve fraternities.