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Return to Spain: 2018

To the ferry port.
Arrival in Salamanca.
Parched scenery very reminiscent of the photos in the Telegraph article featuring Veruschka.
Beginning a dusty hillclimb up the Peña de Francia, south of Salamanca.
Peña de Francia.
1,723m.
Cresting the mountain, into the mountain-top monastery.
Other old-timers that had already made the ascent.
Hot at the top.
The monastery.
A mountain-top blessing.
Narrow medieval streets of La Alberca.
Emerging into the Plaza Mayor.
he Plaza Mayor of La Alberca.
Plaza Mayor.
The bullring at San Martín del Castañar.
Returning to Salamanca.
1968...or 2018?
The beautiful city of Salamanca - 'Little Rome'.
Salamanca's cathedral (its twin domes are in the background of some of the 1968 footage).
The Salamanca History Museum, for centuries the Episcopal Palace.
The motor museum in Salamanca.
The tour group - organisation was thanks to Raúl Gasco Casaos (kneeling).
1968 - 2018.
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