Segovia

Segovia is a beautiful city! The cathedral here is very beautiful. The outside glows in the sunlight.

We were greeted to an amazing aqueduct. Apparently, this one is 17 km from the water source, and looks brand new. Local legends on its origin vary. Some say that the Romans built it with old school cranes and scaffolding over the course of several years, at a perfectly calculated 1 degree incline along the entire length of the aqueduct.
Others hold that a young woman grew tired of walking 17 km to get water, and one day said "I really wish I didn't have to do make that walk everyday anymore." Instantly, the devil appeared to her and offered to build an aqueduct, and made the deal that he would make it, but if he finished it before the first cock's crow, he would get her soul. She agreed, but as soon as he left, she realized that was a big mistake and stayed up all night praying constantly for mercy. Just at dawn, right as the devil was about to place the last stone in the aqueduct, a gust of wind blew him over and the rooster crowed. So they had a whole aqueduct over night minus one unimportant stone (right in the middle of it), and placed a statue of Mary there as gratitude for her saving the young woman.
Either way, I was really excited to see the aqueduct, as I believe that the real measure of a civilized society is whether they have running water- which makes sense when you realize that the Romans were the only ones at the time with running water, and called all non-Romans barbarians.

Segovia is well known for its gourmet food, especially roast piglet. We had a fancy meal with salad, a mushroom dish (and, surprisingly enough, I actually liked it!), fish stuffed peppers, fancy sausages, a giant bean soup, and our roast suckling piglets. I got a leg! It was super delicious and tender, and, best of all, we got a super fancy lava cake dessert that was absolutely fantastic.

There is a palace in Segovia which used to be the primary royal palace. It is the same place where King Ferdinand and Queen Isabel met with Christopher Columbus on multiple occasions, culminating in him receiving the charter that ended in establishing contact with the Americas. That was especially exciting being Columbus day (as observed in the US- the actual date of the holiday is the 12th). It doubled as the coolest castle I've seen so far, and was full of knights, tapestries and beautiful throne rooms and decorations.

Super deep moat- hard to tell but I think it was about 80 ft deep