Carmona

We were up at 7:30am today and as we had water in tap we both took showers.
Then we went for a 2 mile walk to look for the kittens I had seen yesterday in my bike ride to feed them but we couldn’t find them.
We left our park up around 10am and headed 20 miles down the road to the small city of Carmona. This city was known as the gateway to Seville as the one Roman road that ran through it ran straight to Seville and Carmona was fortified.
Its Roman origins date back to the 1st & 2nd century and our first stop once we had found the Motorhome area was to walk to the old Roman Necropolis which was about a mile away.
The entrance to the Necropolis is gained through the museum which was amazing as everything was written in Spanish and English. All of the artifacts from the necropolis were on display. They included the containers with ashes of the dead. Urns and offerings to the gods. Then there was a 30 minute video explaining the death rituals of the Romans which was really eye opening.
Coming out of the museum we were then guided around the grounds of the necropolis by arrows ending up at the largest one which contained the burial chambers and 2 gardens with large ponds and this is where the family’s would have there funerals whilst burning the body on a pyre to one side.
After the necropolis we walked around the city passing through the old portal and into the historic centre.
Today is All Saints’ Day here and most of the shops were closed but Carmona seems like quite a nice city.
Once we had gotten back to Wanda we had walked 5.5 Miles on top of the 2 we had done earlier and we were glad to finally sit down.
We will be spending the night here and it seems pretty good except there is a main road right next to us, but we’re hoping that will calm down by tonight.Meer informatie