Medieval Walk in Finestrat

Hey, Hivers of the #WednesdayWalk community! Long time no see! I have just checked my last post in this community that I did back at the beginning of July!!! In the meantime, I was on vacation, traveled over 5000 km all around Europe, and made dozens of walks, but I didn't do photos of many of them... Luckily, I did a few and will try to post them in this community in the upcoming months... I was doing "categorization" of photos for now, putting dates, picking up good photos... When I was doing that, I noticed that I have some great "walks stories" from before too! So, this is one of those...

If you zoom in on that first picture, you will find out when I did this walk... It was mid-April, and it took place in Finestrat, a small, old town near the place where I live... Like most of these old towns, it has its old part where you can find authentic houses, build by (or in) stone, who knows how many years old... Sometimes they can have 100, 200, or even 300+ years... I'm always amazed by the time how long these stone-built houses can stand!

Of course, this old town's municipality covers bigger areas where you can find new villas, modern houses with pools, etc... As you can see everywhere, I usually don't pay attention to that part... 😂

Every Spring, these old towns in the area organize their own "Medieval markets" where you can see some old occupations and jobs, like blacksmiths, carpenters and how they were doing their jobs before... Also, these markets tend to have stands where they would describe how people were living in those times, what they did in their spare time, etc...

So, one weekend you have the market in one town, the next week in another, and so on... As you will see from the following photos, the old town is narrow and when a lot of people come from other places, it is a problem to find a parking place... So, we parked down by the football stadium (photo above) and climb up to the town on foot... There was a town bus line which took people up, but we rather walk... Just to make this #WednesdayWalk more authentic... 😃

This would be a typical street in Finestrat... Most of the streets are one-way, and some aren't "car-friendly" at all as you can climb with your car on stairs... lol...

Checking out the current location and a bit of history... This square was built in the 18th century... and still standing...

In the labyrinth of narrow old streets, we were trying to find a "main event"... These tables prepared for the evening events are promising signs... We are close...

If you know some Spanish, you can maybe understand some of these signs, but maybe you don't and you are wondering why... 😃 As Finestrat is part of the Valencian Community, many of the signs are written in Valenciano, which is a language similar to Catalan, that is spoken in Catalonia (for example, Barcelona)... From my perspective, it is a mix of Spanish, French and Italian language... and I don't know it, but if you pay attention, you can understand some words...

Oh, I remember this stand very well! They were selling the most delicious baked buns, bread, and scones... Yummy!

Wood-made carousel! Do you see the guy in the black shirt in the middle? No electricity, no gasoline, the guy is pedaling and moving the carousel!

Beautiful, handmade roses from metal... They look the same, but they are all different... Like NFTs! 😃

Another fun place for kids... With good balanced things, you can make a nice, entertaining experience with just a small push...

Animals had a very important role in the everyday life of people living in this area... There is a horseriding culture in Spain, but donkeys were probably even more important and more used... They would carry heavy lifts, do the hard work in the field, etc...

And of course, geese... Feeding a lot of families with eggs, probably the most nutritive food in those, medieval days... When I was a child, I was living in a completely different part of Europe, but I remember that my grandmother had around this number of geese and she would take them out for a walk (to eat)...

As it was getting late, more and more people were coming to the market...

...and for us, it was time to go back home, but before that, we had to find the way to pick up our car... Exploring a bit more of those narrow streets of Finestrat...

...there it is! Behind that white building and that soccer stadium... almost there... 😃

I don't know why, but this house reminds me of one of the Mission Impossible movies (or I think it was one of them), as it was filmed somewhere in Spain when they were chasing Tom Cruise on the motorcycle...

When we were close to the parking, I took the last look at Finestrat... That's where we were! It's like a town on the rock! If you come to this area, I would suggest you visit it as you will have a great "travel to the past" experience...

Thank you for your time,

~ph~

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