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Trujillo in Extramadura, Spain is best known as one of the
cradles of the Conquistadores, most notably Francisco Pizarro,
the conqueror of Peru and the whole Inca Empire. Being out of the
way in one of Spain's relatively poorer areas, it is still a
rather small city without an overload of tourists (though they do
bus some in). Although they city is expanding out into the plain
as suberbs, it is still small and compact enough at the center to
do all your touring on foot. |
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Above is Trujillo's plaza mayor where you can drive in and
still find a parking spot. On the SW corner of the plaza the
Pizarro family's palace home. With the money he sent back from
the new world, Pizarro wanted a church built on this site, but
the family decided on a palace instead. |
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Here you get a better idea of the layout of the land showing
that Trujillo was founded on a rather high hill of granite in the
middle of Extramadura's high desert plain. In the left picture
you are looking west. On the right you can see the plaza mayor
again and on to the north east. |
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As you can see from this postcard the plaza sure looks better
if you are a professional photographer. But the picture looks
like it was taken before I was born. The castle on the hill from
which I took the middle pictures was built by the Moors and is
now a rather poor monastary that was accepting apartment renters
when I was there. |