We are fans of ceilings

We continued our adventure in Cuenca by exploring the city more and visiting some historical sites. 

Besides having the city built up on limestone walls Cuenca also had an amazing medieval cathedral. We learned that this happened to be one of the first Gothic cathedrals in Spain and was started in the late 1100's and finished in 1257.

The church itself was quite impressive with many relics, including some strange relics that we will share later but we were most impressed with the ceilings... So here are some sweet ceiling shots!!

This one is our favorite! \/

The amount of detail contained in the ceilings was quite hard to capture, its also tough to understand the size of each ceiling, so you'll have to believe us... They were big, intricate, and they instilled a curiosity in us.

It seemed like they spent more time on the ceilings than anything else. My neck hurt from looking up so much but it was hard not to! 

We needed to bring the belay glasses!

Enough of the ceilings though...

What's a church without a naked baby standing on a skull?

Or how about this... We are not really sure what this is but it scared both of us.

We are sure about this... And it seems like a very important book.

And on this note we say good bye to one of the most interesting and really interesting churches we have seen (trying not to say creepy...)

As we wrote this post we realized that we missed capturing a photo of one of the weirdest things in this church. They had bones in capsules attached to fake limbs. One of the bones we saw was a radial bone in a glass cylinder attached to a fake hand. Bizarre! (still avoiding 'creepy')

Our final day in Cuenca ended with the church and we decided to visit some abandoned villages on the way to El Chorro... OF COURSE!

These villages were not nearly as impressive as the first but they had some character... One of them was downright creepy (yep. creepy.)

It had things hanging from the ceilings everywhere... Yep more ceilings. All of the ceilings.

Our stay was short though, because I caught Markie looking out the window looking for more Spanish Limestone...

She thought she saw some...

But she didn't... So she kept lookin!

Thats when I realized that I needed to get her out of there and on to the next abandoned village...

Unfortunately for us, this village was re-inhabited and they didn't seem very friendly. So off to El Chorro to climb some rocks, all of the rocks.

Next post will be a CLIMBING POST!!!!!!!

Miss Markie has found a project in El Chorro and she managed to fall a whole bunch too!