Where Are You?: May 2014
by CNTraveler
Jeopardy champ Ken Jennings is guest starring as our Where Are You? game master this month. The prize if you can guess—the right to brag that you're as smart as KJ.
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IT'S A STEEP CLIMB FROM the modern city center up to the old town—but well worth the journey. This maze of narrow cobblestone streets was founded as a Muslim fortress over a millennium ago, and it still feels ancient. In the trapezoidal central square, you can browse the ceramics shops as you admire the Gothic cathedral façade inspired, it's said, by a British queen.
But it's the north end of the old town that will take your breath away. There the city stops at a craggy gorge overlooking the confluence of two similarly named rivers, and perched on the cliffs are a row of wooden balconied houses, dangling precariously over the abyss. In these 14th-century "skyscrapers," you walk in at street level and head down, not up. One of the largest of these gravity-defying houses has been restored as a fine abstract art museum; another is a restaurant where you can admire an afternoon view of the gorge while sampling the town's signature dish—a hot paté of six different kinds of meat—washed down with the local liqueur, made of coffee, orange peel, and aniseed.
If you stroll down the hill after dinner—and you're not afraid of heights—you can cross the ravine 200 feet above the river using an iron bridge named for a nearby convent. A bronze sculpture at one hand honors the town's shepherds. If you have more time in the region, there are wild wolves and bears in a nearby nature preserve, and an "enchanted city" of limestone rocks whittled away by karst erosion into the shapes of turtles, seals, and other animals. If you have to get back, though, a high-speed train will whisk you to the capital in less than an hour. —Ken Jennings
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