The Beauty of Northern Spain

This past weekend we went to the towns of León and Burgos in northern Spain to visit their huge and glorious cathedrals!

We left on Thursday (ditching class of course) and on our way to León we stopped to see this stellar castle.....

Where we climbed and explored its hiding places and secret passageways

And hiked to the top to see the whole town of Coca

After our stop in Coca, we arrived in León, and visited its impresionante cathedral

it was pouring rain, so we got to hang out in the courtyard while the gargoyles sprinkled 'holy water' on us... (actually im practically catholic because we (as in all the girls) bought rosaries that smell like roses, as well as attended mass, and did the four corner cross thing with holy water).
       The catholic church is everything here--like you go into a church and there are all these old women wispering prayers or just pondering, and i love it. An old woman in the town of Silos stopped me and started speaking in rapid spanish (i only understood half of it) but she did say that you can find faith in all parts of the world and shes right.

      After León we stopped in San Martín to see another church as well as this museum full of everything and anything. This museum was built by this one man who collects old/vintage things and just has them lying around everywhere.

So pretty much this man who started this museum is the epiphany of the Spanish man. Tall, dark, and handsome. He was legit.

Well we finally made it to Burgos and took a tour of the magnificent catedral... its huge and covered in ornate gold objects--of course all the gold is from Latin America. They also had a TON if stained glass windows

The group!! (minus McKay)

coolest ceiling ever

 So pretty much this past trip was amazing. I loved all the cathedrals and church's, even though they were all the same. To me, they are beautiful. Spain has proven to be everything I imagined it to be and more, and I am so grateful I have the opportunity to be here for 3 months:)