Yesterday we went back to Loarre in the province of Huesca in the Aragon region. In there you’ll find the ruins of the Castle of Loarre constructed by the Navarre king Sancho III which was built in the 11th century. Last year when we visited the place, it snowed the night before and so the castle and it’s wall ( built in 1287) looked like this in the fog:

Yesterday,  it was still cloudy but you can see it like this :

This is how the wall looks like from the inside. The castle was built on top of a mountain.

This castle was used as a background in movie Kingdom of Heaven starring Orlando  Bloom, Liam Neeson and Eva Greene among others.

It was used as the home of Orlando Bloom’s character at the beginning and end of the film when King Richard the Lionhearted invited him back to the Crusades.

Trivia: The townspeople of Loarre were used as extras in the making of the film.

The castle measures 1,070 meters tall. Too bad, I wasn’t able to take a bird’s eye photo of the whole castle from the top but I can show you some of it’s ruins from the inside.

The top three photos were taken from the main door entrance which is of Romanesque design. The lower photo from the left leads to a patio and a small primitive chapel while the right most photo was once a residence for the noblemen which was later converted into a monastery towards the end of the 11th century.

This is the part where they store the water. There’s a well below it and yes, I wore purple and must have overdone it in the process. lol!

This is the main entrance of  The Keep, the highest part of the castle which is the hardest to reach during that time. It has 5 floors and also served as a place of refuge in times of war.

Below is the view of the countryside from the Patio of Arms.

Those small trees that you can see dotting the reddish mountains are almond trees.

The best thing that about this town aside from it’s majestic castle is that I can take home this:

The Trenza. A tasty and chewy bread made of  the choicest wheat flour, almonds, butter, etc. This photo was taken last year, yesterday I took a home another variant which is Trenza de Chocolate. Same ingredients with the original but this time with orange and chocolate bits. Yummy!

The trip was an unexpected consolation to an otherwise bad week. Problems were forgotten, lessons were learned.

On my next post, I’ll show you some nature photos and more photos of the purply outfit. Stay tuned!

Happy Sunday, everyone!

♥ Che ♥