Old town Avila - Spain

Called "Castles of Gods and Stones" by Castillas , Avila was founded by the Celte tribes, then became a Roman outpost and captured by Visigoths.

She followed Christianity in the 1st century AD, thanks to St. Segundo, the first bishop of Avila, and moved to Islam from the eighth century to the eleventh century.

In 1090, after Muslims were kicked out of Castilla, ancient stone walls began to be built around the city. This 2.5km long wall with more than 80 half cylindrical towers and 9 majestic large gates still exists today. Avila has many religious works, especially the gothique cathedral at the end of the 12th - XIII century with the apricot holes at the top of the choir reminds us of the defense function of this city.

The Roman Church of San Vicente is actually a museum of late twelfth century Roman statues. In San Tomas monastery (late XV century) there were the tombs of Tomas de Torquemada, Chief Judge of the Inquisition, and Don Juan, the only son of the Christian Kings Ferdinand and Isabella.

The embodiment of God embodied at the old site of the house of the goddess Téresa de Avila (1515-1582), a Spanish nun and mystic, from Aila, who had been renewing the Carmelite lineage and leaving works of the masterpiece type of spiritualism poetry.Avila with Roman churches on the outskirts was recorded in the World Heritage List in 1985 .