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Column with face and decorated wall inside a tomb of Alto de Segovia

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The best preserved underground tombs can be found a twenty minutes uphill walk from the museum. The decorations of the tombs at Alto de Segovia are impressive.
Earlier that day, we had visited the Alto de San Andrés, which unfortunately had several tombs closed. From there, we directly walked to the museum, having some superb fresh sugar cane juice/lemon drink on the way. After we worked our way up to the Alto de Segovia from the museum, we arrived at a small plateau with several roofs. These were protecting the entrances to the tombs, which were all closed with a padlock. A guard appeared, and welcomed us to the site. He opened the locks in the first site, opened the door, and switched on the lights. We descended the stairs of the first tomb, with some high steps, and when we reached the wooden fence blocking the entrance to the burial chamber, we stood still in amazement.
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