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SEVILLE,
ANDALUCIA, SPAIN PHOTO GALLERY AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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Seville
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Seville,
the wonderful capital of Southern Spain
Seville, is a marvelous city
of many moods and dimensions. Take a trip there and you are sure to have
a memorable time... |
 
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Aspect, Seville Cathedral Dating from Between 1402 and 1506, Seville, Spain
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Seville
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| Seville, or
more correctly, Sevilla, is the heart and soul of Andalucia. Home to flamenco,
bullfighting and many wonderful buildings it offers the visitor a wide
variety of sites and sensations. On the one hand it is a modern bustling
Spanish city with one foot very much in the 21st. century, but on the other
hand it's long and varied history means that its other foot is firmly placed
in the past.
The best place to begin any
trip to Seville is in the barrio Santa Cruz which is the old Jewish quarter.
Here you are immediately enchanted by the amazing labyrinth of narrow winding
passageways with tall ancient buildings towering above you, so closely
that if you leaned out of a window you could shake hands with someone on
the opposite side of the "ancha," or passageway. |
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| The one great
advantage of these narrow streets is that there is little traffic and the
close proximity of the tall buildings keeps it cool even in the fiercest
Sevillian summer heat, a great advantage when you are wandering around
hopelessly lost looking for your hotel!! You will notice whole troops of
tourists, map in hand, trying to find their way out, Hampton Court maze
has got nothing on barrio Santa Cruz! So be warned go armed with a very
good street plan.
The pride of Seville is the
Cathedral, the largest gothic building in the world, and the third largest
Church, with it's accompanying Giralda. This was originally built by the
Muslims as a minaret to the Great Mosque. However on the fall of the Moslems
the Mosque was converted into a Christian Cathedral and the minaret adapted
to become the bell tower whose top is adorned with a weather vane in the
shape of a female form representing fate. From the top of the Giralda there
are stunning views over the whole of the city. |
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The nearby Alcazar also
started life as a Moorish building, in this case a fortress, but it was
later taken over by the Christians and became home to King Pedro the Cruel
of Castile and his mistress Maria de Padilla who in the 1360's lived in
and ruled from the Alcazar. However he kept the Moorish influence by undertaking
much renovation work, employing Moorish workmen from Granada and utilizing
fragments of earlier Moorish buildings in Seville, Cordoba and Valencia.
It is a magical place to visit on a summers night when it is floodlit.
By contrast the Casa de Pilatos
is a beautiful renaissance building, although it goes without saying there
is still with some Spanish Mudéjar influence. This wonderful old
house full of antique furniture, paintings, silverware, plates etc. |
| It is open daily
to the public except when members of the Royal Family and sundry aristocrats
are in residence as they stay there when they come to Seville.
Seville is just a wonderful
city to visit, not only are there so many wonderful tourist sites to see
but here you can really experience the joyous Spanish love of life. Be
sure to try as many tapas bars as possible, take in a flamenco, or more
correctly sevilliana, show and try the excellent cuisine.
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