Saturday 4 February 2017

Postcards from Zafra

This is Casa Ruy López in Zafra, where I'm staying (the room above the sign)..


It is not in the same street as this...


...which in turn is not in the same street as this...


which says:
Ruy López de Segura, priest from Zafra, first-ever world chess champion in 1575 and famous writer on that noble game, was born and lived in this house.



[With thanks to Carlos Maza Gómez]

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