Out and about: The “City of Kings and Saints”, Avila was sacred to an ancient Celtiberian culture long before the arrival of the Romans or Christians. It was captured by the Arab Moors in 714 AD and ...

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The official archeologist for the community of Avila, Spain, Rosa Ruiz Entrecanales, said this week that excavators have discovered the ruins of what could be the oldest early-Christian church in that ...

AVILA, Spain (AFP) — Just outside the 11th-century walls that surround Avila in central Spain, rows of granite slabs surrounded by neatly trimmed grass mark the spot where ancient Jewish graves lay.

2007 Old Town of Avila with its Extra-Muros Churches. Map showing the boundary of the property as modified in 2007 2010 34COM 8B.60 - Cultural Properties - Examination of minor boundary modifications ...

An entire town enclosed by granite walls loomed below me. The walls rose 12m above the ground, almost looking like they were touching the dark evening sky. Nine gates, 88 towers and numerous ...

Hundreds of residents have been evacuated from the central area of Ávila, Spain, following forest fires caused by the heatwave across southern Europe. Blazes have also broken out across parts of ...

Five hundred years ago, Saint Teresa of Avila, or plain Teresa as she then was, sprinted through the southern gates of her native city, over the Roman bridge and up the ancient drover's track on the ...

Hundreds of Catholic worshippers flocked to the small Spanish town of Alba de Tormes this month to witness a remarkable sight: the remains of Saint Teresa of Ávila, lying in an open silver coffin more ...