24 students and 2 teachers arrived from Segovia, Spain today to spend the next two weeks with host students and families. The students will follow the schedules of their hosts - for the most part. This is a great program. This spring several of the Southwest students to travel to Spain to live with their hosts there. We learn from these experiences.
We also have guest from France and Japan.
The famed city of Segovia is home to one of the greatest surviving monuments of Roman engineering, this aqueduct stretches from the walls of the old town to the edges of Sierra de Guadarrama. It is about 2950 feet long although the section where the arches are divided in two levels is about 900 feet. It is made of rough-hewn massive granite blocks, joined without mortar or clamps.
The sections in two tiers are 115" high. A raised section of stonework in the center once had an inscription. Today only the holes for the bronze letters survive. Steps at the side lead up to the old city walls.
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