This small city on the back roads of Spain between Ramona and Madrid provided us with a fascinating day. We started by harvesting olives and following them to the San Francisco Olive Oil plant where we saw them being made into olive oil which we then consumed as part of our lunch of tapas, along with wine of course.

We returned to our Paradore to clean our shoes and rest a bit until it was time to follow Andres, our tour leader to a special place he had arranged for us. He knows we started on a Jewish History tour and are interested in all things Jewish. Here in Ubeda is yet another supposed synagogue and mikvah.  I qualify the description only because I am no authority, but I saw nothing to cause me to doubt. 

To quote Andres, “but wait, there’s more” The previous day we had stopped in Cordoba to tour the Mosque/Cathedral (again) and to walk through the Jewish Quarter. This day the Synagogue which was closed for renovation when we were there in October was open. Here are some pictures of the interior:

Look for the Hebrew lettering in many of these pictures.

Tomorrow Madrid. I may have some time to write while we are there, or not.