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La Aventura en España - Day Three

Jul 30

Written by: Neil E. Traveler
Saturday, July 30, 2011 9:00 AM

Giralda Tower in Seville, Spain - NETC Educational Travel Tours

On April 20th, we were headed towards Sevilla, Seville as we would say in English. After three hours on the bus we finally arrived at the Plaza de España, a semicircle plaza in the middle of the city. Within the plaza, there is a canal, a fountain, a north and south tower, a park and gypsies ready to sell their goods. We met with our guide for the day. His name was Joaquin and he enjoyed walking very fast. Stopping to take pictures would make you fall behind at his pace.

He brought us to the cultural center of Sevilla where we toured three main sites. The first was the Alcázar, a combination of a palace and a castle with both gothic and Moorish architecture. Secondly we went to the Catedral de Sevilla, the largest cathedral in volume in the world. It was once a mosque, converted to a Christian church. One of the minarets leftover from the mosque was converted into a bell tower. This is called the Giralda, and it is the third site we visited. It was attached to the cathedral. When the Giralda was converted, the king wished to ride up on his horse in order to have a view of the entire city. Like the horses, we climbed up all 36 ramps in order see the entire city from the highest building.

That afternoon we ate lunch at a tapas bar, where we ordered many different kinds of food in small portions to share. After lunch and some shopping, we were lucky enough to see one of the processions for Semana Santa, or as we know it, Easter. Hundreds of members of a brotherhood of the cathedral marched down the street, playing music and carrying a thousand pound float of the Virgin Mary and Jesus. Upon the end of the precession, we headed back to the hotel. Hazel attempted to teach us how to Flamenco dance in the lobby. While the majority of us, myself included, looked uncoordinated and hopeless, she and Ms. Páez really worked it on the dance floor.

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