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The Alcazar and the Cathedral in Seville, capital
of Andalucia
- the first four images are of the Alcazar, the remaining seven are of the
Cathedral
I visited both on 24th March 2007 - an exhausting but exhilarating full day
of 'sightseeing'!
A courtyard with indricate plasterwork from the Islamic period (Patio de
las Munecas)
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A beautiful and tranquil courtyard (Patio de las
Dencellas)
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One of the tapestries in the Tapestry Room (Sala
de Tapices)
The interest in this particular tapestry is that the map is inverted from
the current usual layout
- north is at the bottom, with the southern part of the Iberian peninsula
at bottom right and North Africa
(present-day Morocco, Alegeria and Tunisia) is at the top. Corsica and Sardinia
are toward the left with
Sardinia above Corsica!
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A small corner of the quite large gardens of the
Alcazar
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The Giralda of Seville Cathedral; originally this
was the minaret of the mosque
which formerly occupied the site of the Cathedral
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A part of one of the two massive organs in the
Cathedral
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The amazing and huge gilded Altar in the Main Chapel
of the Cathedral
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A small part of the ceiling in the eliptical Chapter
House. A stunningly beautiful room.
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The orangery courtyard in the Cathedral (Patio de
los Naranjos);
the photograph was taken from roughly half-way up the Giralda
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Looking out over the buttresses of the Cathedral
from half-way up the Giralda;
this give some idea of just how massive Seville Cathedral is.
In the middle distance at right can be seen the Seville Bullring.
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The Giralda is about 90 metres in height, but is
surprisingly easy to climb
because instead of steps one walks up a series of gently sloping ramps
- designed to allow horses to be ridden up to the top!
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