Cuenca, Spain
Cuenca
Cuenca Spain Travel Guide
They always say “Location, location, location!” Right? Well, here’s a deliciously old town strung up on ridge between two gorges, those of the Júcar and Huécar rivers, some 120 feet above the rivers! It’s a fortified town, thoroughly captivating with its cobbled squares and offshoot steep, narrow streets lined with colorful old buildings, housing small shops and restaurants and spillover sidewalk cafes. But the big the deal here? The Museo de Arte Abstraco, housed in the ancient “hanging houses,” or Las Casas Colgadas, which you can see literally clinging to the face of the cliff, high above the valley, and which in turn house a fabulous collection of Spanish abstract painters – Antoni Tápies, Mompó, Tormer, Canogar and Fernando Zóbel – "as good as Picasso and Miró!" It’s a treat!