Coaching for Pizza: Mercado de las Veronicas

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Mercado de las Veronicas

Thursday, 26 March, 2015:

UP AND AT 'EM!

We were out of La Hacienda bright and early with the intent to simply journey to the Mercado de las Veronicas to buy just a bit of sausage for breakfast the next few days.

We would buy a whole lot more.

No Spokes

Mercado de las Veronicas

Lots of food stalls

No thank you but we will take a meter

each of mild and picante sausage

Nope, but we'll take a half kilo

of gambas pro favor

Wine, cheese, seasoned ground beef and jamon iberico, amongst other items, somehow went home with us.

So much shopping

merited a café break

Semana Santa and the Spring Festival

All over the ciudad structures like these are being raised to prepare for the pageantry of these two festivals that will bring bedlam to Murcia during the next two weeks.

We decided that a long walk was now in order.

Near the Rio Segura

Commies?

INDEED!

Always with the Huelgas

Art near the Cuartel de Artillería

We need to buy outfits

for the Spring Festival soon

Moorish style

Colorful capstone

Cuartel de Artillería up close

We found the main door of the Cuartel de Artillería of interest.

Knocker

Knocker close up

Lock

Wizard of Oz Gatekeeper Opening?

About 10 feet high but still with soccer

ball prints in the dust

Roots

Moorish Water Tower

The Princess

Every September, Murcia hosts a Moors and Christians Festival. As I write this we are watching Charlton Heston and Sophia Loren in the epic movie El Cid reliving that time period in Spanish history.

The Cuartel de Artillería is the site of the Moors and Christian Festival Museum which I had visited alone a few months ago.

It was time for Laurie to see the museum.