December 11, 2007

• LUCENA - the town of lighting (shops)….

  We drove up to Lucena a few months ago after I had read that at one time it was a very Jewish town.  First port of call was the Tourist Office, where I couldn’t find one piece of paper relating to when the majority of the population was Jewish.  I spoke to the Tourist Officer who told me they had nothing available but if I called back he would run me something off from the computer…which yes he very kindly did but he had run me off a translation from the Spanish sites and to tell the truth it was awful!!!  So what you read below is my  ‘version’ of that translation, which I hope you find interesting. (…)