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Extract from the vila Travel Guides:
Two things distinguish
VILA
: its eleventh-century
walls
, two perfectly preserved kilometres of which surround the old town, and the mystic writer
Santa Teresa
, who was born here and whose shrines are a major focus of religious pilgrimage. Set on a high plain, with the peaks of the Sierra de Gredos behind, the town is quite a sight, especially if you time it right and approach with the evening sun highlighting the golden tone of the walls and the details of the 88 towers.
The walls were ordered by Alfonso VI, after his capture of the city from the Moors in 1090; they took his Mus...
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