As during our exchanges we should see the most places possible with Esther, Paul and Thibault we decided to travel in Toledo, a small and pretty city that all our friends in the university advised us to visit, for 24 hours.

10 am: We set off together with Paul’s car and only one hour after we arrived at destination. Before entering in the city our first impression was that the city looked like a village of the middle Ages with its castles and its medieval architecture. 

11 am: As the city is quite small we parked the car in a parking and began the visits. Our first visit was the Church “San Ildefonso” that we were quickly able to visit because there was nobody in the queue. It was a very nice place, not very big and all decorated in white. 

12 am: We went in a small street where we found a small restaurant where we lunched some Spanish speciliaties: Tortillas y Patatas Bravas.

2 pm: We continue the visit of the city with the church Santo tome, the road of Don QUICHOTE and the Sinagogue of Saint Maria la Blanca. After that we saw something that looks like a little house on the other side of the river and we decided to look what it was.

5 pm: That was our best discovery, a little place with an old well and some graffiti on the walls

And we have had an amazing view of the city

6 pm: We took a last coffee on the terrace of a beautiful hotel situated on a mountain and one hour after we finally took the road of return.

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My third article is about immigration in Spain and more especially about the declaration that France, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Cyprus, Malta and Spain sign the 16^th of April in Alicante.

In fact, Spain and the countries of the Southern Europe have to handle a migratory crisis which takes more scale from day to day. The document will be a base for a discussion between the European heads of State in the request of Spain which knows strong waves of emigration from Ceuta and Melilla.

All this can be explained by the fact that Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Sub-Saharan Africa and South America were old Spanish colonies. It’s the reason why the countries are attached to Spain and their culture are related with it.

Furthermore, the majority of these countries are developing and know strong unemployment rates for example 8, 8 % in Morocco and 10, 3 % in Algeria. Also, 16 countries of Sub-Saharan Africa are victims of food crisis created by drought and civil wars.

So motivated by their poverty, their unemployment and their situation in their respective countries, hundreds of people risks every day their lives to leave their native country and to begin a new life in Spain but also in all the Southern Europe where the countries are more developed.

In the context of economic crisis in which Spain is, it becomes harder and harder for the country to manage the numerous illegal immigrations given that Spain is the closest to the Moroccan border and is also considered as a country of transit.