Amaya Travel Guide

 easyoar Says:  This is another example of the sort of decay you can see in villages like Amaya. Some houses are left to rot, others are refurbished. I'm guessing that buying a house here is very very cheap, so there is some attraction to buying in a village like this. The down side of... 

 easyoar Says:  Spring/Easter time is a nice time to visit as there are quite a few flowers and blossom out. This looks like a fruit tree and was in one of the gardens. Some gardens seem to be orchards, not large ones, but orchards all the same. There are numerous ploughed fields around... 

 easyoar Says:  It's quite hard to date the town of Amaya. The church was built in the 15th to 16th centuries, and some of the houses are either quite new or have been radically refurbished. This house looked refurbished, but had left some of the more interesting original parts still... 

 easyoar Says:  This has got to be the world's most pointless Stop sign. A dirt track leading on to an almost unused road. What would happen if you failed to Stop? I hate to ask. Probably swarms of Guarda Civil (Spanish Traffic Police) that were hiding behind blades of grass would swoop out... 

 easyoar Says:  Amaya is incredibly rural and absolutely off the beaten path.I'm guessing that most people live off agriculture, certainly a good number of them do. It is not uncommon to see ploughs like this one by the sides of roads, and they are not there just for decoration! I suspect... 

 easyoar Says:  This church is in "La Parroquia de Amaya" It is the "Iglesia de San Juan Bautista" which translates into the Church of Saint John the Baptist. It was built between the 15th - 16th Centuries and has 3 naves, and I know nothing else about it except that the back of it is used... 

 easyoar Says:  Watch out for the Car Guzzling Space Aliens. I parked my car bext to one, and seconds later it was gone! Seriously there doesn't appear to be much to be careful of in Amaya. Probably the biggest danger is a lack of shops and being caught short with no... 

 easyoar Says:  Amaya nestles under a huge slab of rock which coincidentally is also called the Amaya Rock. Probably a chicken and egg situation as to which of them was called Amaya first, the other in all likelihood just adopted the name too. It does make for quite an impressive backdrop... 

 easyoar Says:  Has David Bowie visited here? (the lyrics to the song even contain the word "Leon", even if they had nothing to do with Castilla in the contect it was used, and the fountain actually predates Bowie's song by a couple of years). This rather bizarre fountain can be found... 

 easyoar Says:  This is pretty unusual in Spain these days, a lot of old Franco memorials have bitten the dust now. I suspect it has been left alone because it is in the middle of a little village that almost nobody visits. Obviously this village has had fascist tendencies in the past. The...