A Midsummer Night’s Blog

Touring Southern Spain One Archive at a Time

Filed as Destreza (Spanish swordplay), Fencing, Geek Stuff, General, Historical Fencing on July 2, 2009

(7/2/2009)

Mary in the Archivo

Mary and I are currently in the Archivo de la Real Chancilleria in Granada in the South of Spain. 
 
Yesterday we toured the Alhambra and I have good pictures of the fortifications and plenty of pictures of the amazing architecture and carving as well.  As we travel through Southern Spain, Mary is hitting the archives and she is currently flipping through a hand written manuscript. 
 
Later today we hop a train to Sevilla and then from there it is a bus to Sanlucar de Barrameda.  Sanlucar is where the greatest fencing author in Spain, Jeronimo Sanchez de Carranza wrote his book.
 
Truly we live a charmed life.

Happy Mary in the Archivo