The Slow Road
Two Women Wandering the World
The Spanish flag flies over a city gate in Antequera
The 16th-century church of San Sebastian
Church fronts are very plain in Antequera; this is one of the most decorated ones
The 15th-century walls of the Alcazaba fortress crown the highest hill in Antequera
View of Antequera from the hilltop fortress
The rock on the far right is a local landmark known as Lovers' Rock
Ruins of Roman baths on the side of the hill near the fortress
This bronze statue from the 1st century AD was unearthed near Antequera
Looking up to the hilltop fortress and two 16th-century churches
The bell tower of the hilltop church of Santa Maria, built in the early 1500s
Inside the church of Santa Maria
Moorish ceiling and classical columns
A reproduction 18th-century statue of Faith subduing a seven-headed dragon (the seven deadly sins). The original statue was carried in Corpus Christi processions in Grenada in the 1700s.
The dragon looks like the multiheaded nagas we saw in Buddhist temples all over Southeast Asia
Near Antequera is a mountainous area of wonderfully eroded limestone called El Torcal
