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THE WORLD HERITAGE CITIES
Bonded by the universal recognition accorded by UNESCO in acknowledgement of their natural, scenic and monumental appeal, Spain's Group of World Heritage Cities is the most important in any one country in the world and is composed of nine historic core units in so many cities. These cities have not only kept their natural settings intact but, along with an impressive heritage in the form of monumental buildings and sights, have at the same time managed to retain the richness of their local architecture and a way of life in which the past is all too palpably present.
From Galician mists and pilgrims' offerings to the Apostle James in Santiago de Compostela, the heritage list ranges across to Cordoba, the capital of the Omayyads and once the gem of the known world, which, in its mosque and old quarters (the judería and San Lorenzo areas), possesses an extraordinary monumental heritage, infused with the very essence of Andalusia in its alleys, lanes and gardens. From the learned Renaissance cloisters of Salamanca, one is then taken via walled and mystic Avila where the passer-by still seems to hear the wandering tread of St. Teresa de Jesús, and on to Segovia of Roman and 16th-century "Comunero" insurgency fame, its mansions proudly emblasoned with the coats-of-arms of the Castilian nobility.
In similar vein, Cuenca and its wonder of Nature await, defying orthodoxy, hanging bewitched, magically suspended above the twin ravines gashed by its two rivers, while Cáceres proves a revelation in each and every street of its Old Quarter, a Quarter as splendid as it is well-preserved, and Toledo, the medieval capital of Spain, rises from the banks of the Tagus like some rambling, old house in which the history and jewelled perfection of ten centuries lies waiting to be discovered.
World Heritage status was recently accorded to the city of Alcalá de Henares, seat of one of Spain's most glorious universities and birthplace of Miguel de Cervantes.
Innumerable routes lie open to the visitor, waiting to acquaint him/her with the major world movements in Art (Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque), waiting to reveal the living traces of History.
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