My World Tuesday = Old, Old Slides

My World Tuesday = Old, Old Slides

Continuation of Jack's 1973 Tour of Portugal and Spain

All the slides here are of two cities in Spain: Madrid and Barcelona

Horseman Monument in Front of Building at Plaza Mayor

in Madrid, Spain

Cervantes Monument in Madrid, Spain

This monument celebrates the writing of Miguel de Cervantes who wrote the first modern novel, Don Quixote which was a satire on the romance of chivalry. The great Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky declared Don Quixote "the ultimate and most sublime work of human thinking." At the monument you can see the figures of the two main characters in Don Quixote: Don Quixote and Sancho Panza.

Royal Palace in Madrid, Spain

Army Auditors in Spanish Plaza

Statue of the Bear and the Strawberry Tree in Madrid, Spain

These Old Slides Are From Jack's Trip To Spain in 1973

Spanish Anchor in Front of Almudena Cathedral in Madrid

Pope Leo XIII commissioned in 1884 the construction of this cathedral for the new diocese of Madrid that he declared would be a separate diocese from the larger diocese of Toledo, Spain. Jack and his buddies toured this cathedral back in 1973 when it was still under construction. The Spanish Civil War in the 1930's interrupted the construction. The construction finally ended in 1993 and Pope John-Paul consecrated the cathedral in that year.

Lake and Monument at El Retiro Park in Madrid

The Horseman Monument to King Alfonso XII

Fountain Plaza In Old Madrid

Jack and his Army Audit Buddy James Blakeslee

Fall 1973

Jack Feeding the Pigeons at Fountain Plaza

Spanish Fisherwomen and Customers by Waterfront in Barcelona, Spain

The American Tour Group From Germany

Visiting a Catholic Cathedral in Barcelona, Spain

Well folks, that is my tour of Spain from long ago. If you would like to see the beginning of this trip to Spain and Portugal just cruise on down past my newsflash about flooding in the Ohio valley today to the next blog entry which has old slides of

the beautiful city of Lisbon, Portugal.

If you don't have time, then just click on the My World sign at the right to visit other My World memes around the world. Thank you for visiting my blog and hope you have a great start to the month of March. Just think of this. The northern hemisphere around the world is now in meteorological spring! Thank goodness!