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Before I go on a short (and I fear rainy) holidays near my homeland, let me end the series on Trujillo with this other view from the castle. Again, every building seen on the photo is between 700 and 500 years old.See you in a few days. :-)The rest of these notes is a transcription of the notes of my earlier posts, which are grouped together on my Trujillo & Monfragüe theme.As in many other Spanish towns, the old part of Trujillo doesn't seem to have changed much on the last 500 or 600 years. However, this feeling is much more intense in Trujillo than other towns because the town hasn't grow as much as the other ones, so the 'old part' is almost as large as the rest of the town. One feels like travelling in time or being inside an historical film while strolling on its streets.The town was the birthplace of some of the 16th century Conquistadores (conquerors) of South America, the most famous ones being Francisco Pizarro who conquered Peru (then the Inca Empire) and his lieutenant Francisco de Orellana, who was the first european explorer of Amazonas river, perhaps the first man who seek the fabled El Dorado.Probably that is the cause of the existence of so many towns named Trujillos in Latin America. It's amazing how so many earlier explorers of America came from this land of Spain so far away from the sea.---Links to info on Wikipedia: - Trujillo / Spain, Francisco Pizarro, Francisco de Orellana.
