111. Penafiel

Next we spent a fair amount of time in Penafiel (the n should have a tilda, that squiggly thing, on top of it, but I don't know how to type that on my Anglo keyboard). It's in a fairly attractive corner of Segovia province, hillier and greener than most of the area surrounding Madrid. The town is dominated by the deceptively awesome castle lining the hill above town. I say deceptive because the castle was built to fit the shape of the narrow ridge, ie very long and very narrow. The castle has been owned for many centuries by the Marquis of Penafiel, whose family still owns it