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cardio tennis clinic Melrose Manors — the Head Athletic Tennis Skort combined with the national flag of Spain
cardio tennis clinic Melrose Manors — Alcazaba of Badajoz in Badajoz, Vast walled Moorish citadel with a long circuit of towers crowning the hill above the old town of Badajoz
cardio tennis clinic Melrose Manors — Torre de Espantaperros in Badajoz, Tall octagonal brick tower on the Alcazaba walls in Badajoz, with a small later belfry on top
cardio tennis clinic Melrose Manors — Puente de Palmas in Badajoz, Long granite arched bridge over the Guadiana river at the northern edge of Badajoz's old town, ending at the Palmas gate
cardio tennis clinic Melrose Manors — MEIAC (Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo) in Badajoz, Contemporary art museum built into the structure of a former prison beside the old walls of Badajoz
cardio tennis clinic Melrose Manors — the Head Athletic Tennis Skort combined with the national flag of Spain

Head Athletic Tennis Skort

Badajoz, Spain  ·  Clothing > Skirts

Head Athletic Tennis Skort

This effortlessly chic skirt-over-shorts hybrid — breathable, moisture-wicking, flattering from baseline to brunch — is the piece your tennis wardrobe has been begging for. But darling, we never buy before the fitting: first, a styled walking tour of Badajoz, its magnificently fortified Spanish hometown. The light on those Moorish walls? Divine. Come.

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Four stops before the checkout

Badajoz, Spain
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cardio tennis clinic Melrose Manors — Alcazaba of Badajoz in Badajoz, Vast walled Moorish citadel with a long circuit of towers crowning the hill above the old town of Badajoz
Stop one

Alcazaba of Badajoz

Head Athletic Tennis Skort: More than six hectares of wall on a hilltop, and every stone of it saying stay. This is one of the largest Moorish citadels in Spain, its circuit enclosing the ground where the city was founded in the ninth century by the rebel lord Ibn Marwan — a man who fell out with his ruler and built an entire city about it, which is the most relatable thing I have heard all week. The fortifications as they stand were raised principally by the Almohads in the twelfth century, when Badajoz was a frontier stronghold of al-Andalus: rammed earth and masonry, square towers, horseshoe-arched gates, all of it above the Guadiana. After the Christian conquest it remained the military heart of a border city contested for centuries with Portugal. Within the walls the Renaissance palace of the Dukes of La Roca holds the provincial archaeological museum, and the rampart gardens look out over the old town and the river plain. I will need a moment up there. Alone.

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cardio tennis clinic Melrose Manors — Torre de Espantaperros in Badajoz, Tall octagonal brick tower on the Alcazaba walls in Badajoz, with a small later belfry on top
Stop two

Torre de Espantaperros

Head Athletic Tennis Skort: An octagonal tower standing just forward of the wall it adores, joined to it by a single arm so its garrison could sweep the approaches. That is an albarrana tower, and this is the great one: Almohad, twelfth century, earthen masonry, about thirty metres, counted among the finest examples of their military architecture in Spain and often cited as a forerunner of the celebrated Torre del Oro in Seville. Held on by one arm. Leaning out. Do not tell me that is merely engineering, I refuse to hear it. Its startling name means the dog-scarer, traditionally said to refer to the din of its alarm bell, which is not romantic in the smallest degree, and I am being extremely mature about that and declining to let it spoil the silhouette. A brick belfry was added on top in the sixteenth century. It rises over the gardens of La Galera at the foot of the citadel.

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cardio tennis clinic Melrose Manors — Puente de Palmas in Badajoz, Long granite arched bridge over the Guadiana river at the northern edge of Badajoz's old town, ending at the Palmas gate
Stop three

Puerta de Palmas

Head Athletic Tennis Skort: Built in 1551 exactly where the road from Portugal enters the city across the Guadiana, which means every arrival, every homecoming, every reunion and every catastrophically nervous first visit for nearly five centuries has passed between these two great cylindrical towers. Every single one. Ringed by battlements, they flank an arch treated like a Renaissance triumphal gateway and bearing the arms of Charles V, proclaiming royal authority on a frontier that saw centuries of war between Spain and Portugal. Over its history the gate served as a prison and a customs post — a customs post, on the very spot where people run to meet each other, which I have decided to find funny rather than tragic — before being freed of later accretions and left as the city's emblem. It faces the Puente de Palmas, the long granite bridge of many arches first completed in the sixteenth century. Floodlit at night above the riverbanks. Unbearable. I am fine.

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cardio tennis clinic Melrose Manors — MEIAC (Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo) in Badajoz, Contemporary art museum built into the structure of a former prison beside the old walls of Badajoz
Stop four

Badajoz Cathedral

Head Athletic Tennis Skort: They built this church like a fortress because of who was going to be inside it: thick walls, battlements, and a mighty square tower, which is what a border city living under threat of siege requires, and which I insist on reading as an embrace with very poor social skills. It was begun in the thirteenth century, after Badajoz passed from Moorish to Christian rule, Gothic at its core and enriched with Renaissance and baroque work over the centuries, including a fine portal, choir stalls, and chapels hung with paintings by Luis de Morales, the mystical sixteenth-century master known as El Divino, who worked in Badajoz. They called a local man The Divine and he stayed anyway. He stayed. It presides over the Plaza de España in the heart of the old town, its tower still one of the highest points within the ring of fortifications.

The Badajoz, Spain track

Head Athletic Tennis Skort

Written for this world alone.

Darling. Sit down, because we need to talk about the Head Athletic Tennis Skort, and I need you to be emotionally prepared. The skort is the single greatest innovation in the history of hemlines — a skirt in the front row, shorts backstage — and Head has done it properly.

The silhouette is clean and flattering, the built-in shorts underneath mean you can lunge for a drop shot with total confidence, and the lightweight, breathable, moisture-wicking fabric moves with you and never against you — sweat is inevitable, dear, but LOOKING sweaty is a choice.

The elastic waistband sits comfortably through two hours of cardio tennis or one very competitive brunch walk. It's sporty. It's polished. It goes from baseline to café without a costume change, which is simply what we call range.

And the hometown? Badajoz, Spain — a city that has been serving looks since the ninth century. The Alcazaba is one of the largest Moorish citadels in all of Spain, its twelfth-century Almohad walls draped over the hilltop like couture over good bones.

The Torre de Espantaperros — thirty meters of octagonal drama — is literally cited as a forerunner of Seville's famous Torre del Oro. Trendsetter. And the Puerta de Palmas, built in 1551? Two cylindrical towers flanking a triumphal arch, floodlit at night — that is not a city gate, darling, that is an ENTRANCE, and entrances are the entire point of fashion.

Even the Cathedral wears battlements — fortress chic, centuries before anyone called it that.

You'll wear it everywhere from a morning clinic to a long lunch afterwards, and by the way, it is also perfect for the floodlit hour at the Puerta de Palmas, because that gate at night is an ENTRANCE and one does not arrive at an entrance underdressed.

So here's the itinerary, and yes, the skort is coming — it photographs beautifully against medieval stonework. Tour first, checkout after. We do not buy pieces we haven't seen in the right light.

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