Xativa is a medium-sized city in a valley in the interior of Spain and makes a nice day out. Most towns in Spain have one fountain--but Xativa is reputed to have a thousand! I have not counted them!

The building to the left is a Town Hall (the shot was taken in January--note  the Christmas decorations on the outside. This is one of my older pictures as the words refer to the millennium ...but in the local dialect

Life is full of surprises and there, by the roadside, in a park, was a Nativity scene and parents were taking their children around it in the same way that they would be taken around Santa's grotto. How the woman bearing an urn fits in with Christmas I have no idea ...but  the shepherds are familiar! Interestingly enough, children get the presents on the 6th of January as part of a festival unknown in the U.K. (called the "Three Kings").

The street (below) looks wet but the paving is shiny.