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GUISANDO BULLS (15 km)

The animal sculptures in stone, popularly conodas as "boar", although both can be pigs and bulls, constutuyen one of the most original creations of Celtic art. Of these more than 400 known copies issued by Avila, Salamanca, Zamora, Cáceres and northern Portugal. The most famous, already mentioned in Don Quixote is that of the "Bulls Guisando." What are four beautiful bull sculptures of considerable size, as measured over 2.5 m lasrgo, located in a large meadow in her natural way of Avila to Toledo, in the Term of the shudder. THE BULLS GUISANDO.Son sculptures, carved in granite, are aligned with their heads to the west, offering some of these holes to insert the horns and smooth grooves parallel to indicate the folds of the neck. They are certainly indicative and protective magic images of the fields located in their neighborhood. The chronology can be established in IV.III centuries BC, although one of them on the back shows a Roman inscripcción. There are other forts and boars of no less interest in the whole province of Ávila. The road leads from the house to the TORODS THE PIPES OF GUISANDO has a full view of nature esseccinales.

Monastery of the Escorial (48 km)

The Monastery of the Escorial, was considered, from the late sixteenth century, the Eighth Wonder of the World, both in size and functional complexity and its enormous symbolic value. Its architecture marked the passage of Renaissance classicism plateresque desornamentado. Enormous work of great monuments, not only is a perfect building plots, but also a huge receptacle of the other arts. His paintings, sculptures, choir, scrolls, vestments and other luxury objects, sacred and courtly make El Escorial is also a museum. Its complex iconography and iconology has received the most varied interpretations of historians, admirers and critics. El Escorial is the crystallization of ideas and the will of its creator, Philip II, a Renaissance prince.