Tomorrow, for our regular Tuesday Day Out, we’re taking (another) trip to Cádiz. We’re going to spend time near the sea and pop to a couple of places in town. But today I want to take you instead to Plaza de España. Here is a handsome house in a handsome area. But now it’s down on its uppers. No longer smart, it’s still extremely characterful. I thought it deserved its fifteen minutes of fame.
From Pyrenees to Pennines 
That is RIGHT UP MY STREET, photographically derelictly speaking!!
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Mine too. For those of us in a bad way, huh? Talk this week?
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Just sent you an email
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Ah, old age and how it ravages everything and everybody. Yes, it deserves it minutes of fame. Hope we all do! Thank you!
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That is a particularly Spanish style of window, it seems to me. There was one on the building 5 meters across the street from the pensión where I stayed my first night in Toledo. It had dozens of eyes of military recruits hoping I’d forget to close the shades. Unfortunately, I did, until they reminded me…
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A well chosen picture.
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This makes me inexplicably sad… I LOVE old houses with a soul, a story and history to tell. I see all those hazardous cables wall-mounted higgledy-piggledy, the rust and decay and I would probably try to give it back its former beauty – but those broken windows!
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I know. It was quite strange. It’s a prosperous area, that address, and if the current owners aren’t in a position to cahnege things, I’m sure there would be buyers.
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Well although it has lots of character while so dilapidated, I hope the window and indeed the whole building do get restored before its too late …
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I hope so too. In the desirable position it’s in, it’s hard to imagine it simply crumbling away
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Such a great window.
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I loved it
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I really like this one. 🙂 … and we enjoyed our day in Cadiz (via cruise ship).
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Oh, you need MUCH longer than a day!
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Nicely framed, Margaret! I like this capture, the colors and texture especially.
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It was obligingly characterful.
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Very cool window! Neat
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It was!
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Lovely vista. We really enjoyed Cadiz and a bonus it was the week before Christmas.
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That must have been lovely. And it’s no disadvantage going in December/January, is it?
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No, I didn’t think so. We mingled with more locals which was a big bonus and the spectacular festive decorations. The decorated trees were huge!
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That sounds great. Except that these days, mingling no longer sounds fun. But back then …
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Yes, it was way back in the day. Seems a lifetime ago.
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Whoops meant lovely vistas around Cadiz. Apart from derelict windows 😉
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Even that building, so in need of TLC, was lovely.
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I like it. Always one of my favourite picture subjects.
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A fellow fan!
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Somethings still in their less than glory days make for a fine photograph. The details on that window are admirable, I hope they survive any future restoration.
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I hope so too. I suspect that situated where it is, nothing too bizarre will happen to it.
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It certainly has seen better days.. 😉
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Sadly. Let’s hope it has a better future.
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Part of me wants it restored to its former glory, the other part hopes the dereliction remains but just at this stage
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My sentiments exactly. I was very taken by the whole building.
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Plenty of them like this in Portugal
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Yup. And Spain. And France.
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