October 26th Second day in Segovia

 

 

 

Well today even tops yesterday, as we visited the historical/archeological museum with tracks the history of Segovia and the surrounding area from very prehistory (i.e. -700,000 years) up to the end of the 19^th Century.  They have exhibits beginning with the geology and moving into the earliest Stone Age through the copper, bronze, and iron ages. 
 A prehistoric stone boar used as boundary markersA prehistoric stone bull used as boundary markers

It contains beautiful Roman and Visigoth artifacts with reputedly the finest gathering of Visigothic jewelry and gold in the world.  I can believe it.  It also deals with the agriculture, animal husbandry, clothing, art, glass work, etc. and gives a very good overview of this area.   After this museum we got up into the main town again for another great lunch, with of course lots of local vino.  It started raining so we  headed up for a visit to the modern art museum dedicated to the art of Estaben Vincente who was a locally bred artist.  He is world renowned and studied in Paris at the same time as Picasso.  They were friends but didn’t share the same artistic vision.   Then he went to New York City around the time of Franco’s takeover of Spain, where he lived for the rest of his life.  He was friends with Jackson Pollock, Clyford Still, Mark Rothko, and other abstract expressionist.  It was a total visual delight.  Just too much to describe adequately.  We caught the 8:00pm train back to Madrid and were in the apartment by 10:00.  We had a wonderful adventure. I will post nothing but pictures next week when the internet traffic is less here at the library.
Tapas at Jose Maria's