Tuesday 8 December 2009

Spain Tour 14: Potes to Leon part 2

After the high pass, we came across this lake glistening in the sun: It looks like this on Google Maps:


By the bridge in the map above was this rather clean and lovely-looking town (Riano).
The reason that it is so clean and lovely looking is that it is brand new. The lake was caused by a dam project, which drowned the original. They built this new town alongside the new lake and moved the population into it.
The lake did look very nice...
... and the bridge seemed very nice too (how can you have a nice bridge, you may ask? Ok I can't defend the comment - I just liked it).
We stopped in the town by this classically Spanish church to take the pictures, and have a snack. Then we carried on to Leon.

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