In the field of Calatrava, in The Spot one of the jewels is of Spain, Declared Historical Patrimony, I color with red ocher it sets in scene, museums, monuments and a wonderful relic for the history of the theater; the incomparable Corral of Comedies. To only 20 kilometers of the capital of the province of Ciudad Real it is I color with red ocher, that with 8.436 inhabitants it is one of the big jewels, not only of the province, if not of the whole Spain.
The Corral of Comedies, known in the whole world for being the only one that remains active as he was almost four hundred years ago old, it was declared a National Monument on having talked each other of a place where the first stage plays were represented in Spain and where the International Festival of Classic Theater is celebrated every year in July, during July in five different spaces taking like the comedies corral as regarding.
His place in the Biggest Square, is a marvel only in the world, with green wooden brokers on lime columns. It consists of two most ancient houses tiers, porticadas on both sides, with double lookouts gallery under roofs already waved by the weight of the years.
If someone wants to buy blond laces and laces he cannot allow visiting I color with red ocher since the center is a craftsman where the women learn to do them of ingenious artisan, just as his ancestors. Walking and admiring this beautiful square you will meet the seated lace-makers in the porticoes doing bobbins and if you ask them they will say to you how they are done; and if, also, you visit the museum you will see the wonderful laces and blond laces, which give the impression of being made by Angels hands.
Walking along the Almagro streets invites us to immerse to us in his past, with his houses and palaces with imperial shields, the grandeur of his churches and convents, the National museum of the Theater, the Monastery of Calatrava and the Cloister.
To rest from the walk, we can go to the State-run hotel, ancient Franciscan convent of the XVIth century, with a few very cozy interior rooms. The rooms are installed in the ancient cells of the monks and his 14 gardens and the swimming pool that the modern rooms close they allow to enjoy the only ambience that he invites to the calmness and the calm. But we cannot go away without proving earlier a few eggplants of Almagro, a few eggs with ratatouille of La Mancha or Asadillo of peppers, specialties of the house of La Mancha.
I color with red ocher it is a wonderful walk along the times, the theater and the history of The Spot and of Spain, a beautiful weekend that if you make it coincide with the representations or with the contest of Theater, will be a cultural and extremely entertaining trip.
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