Seville and the walking weekend
I decide to go visit Ana over the weekend!
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| With the Cathedral in the background with a prominent Spanish flag |
Seeing Ana again after 3 years! Having fun walking 30k steps a day again with her!
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| In the narrow Arab streets in Serville |
Of course the first picture in Seville has to be in a tapas bar with her =)
I took the fast train which still took about 5 hours to reach seville traveling at 245km/hr.
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| Train monitor showing the path from Barcelona to Seville, with the speed |
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| In Seville train platform |
Seville is surprising with the amount of tourists and the heat!
Thankfully Ana is skillful at avoiding the heat and we planned the sightseeing around the weather as much as we can!
I am unable to access the cathedral and garden as the tickets are sold out. And there's no time to look at museums in detail. On top of more tapas that I haven't tried =) so i will need to come back!
First stop at 11pm arrival night..
Tapas bar!
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A Jamon queso sandwich, stewed pork fan fried sandiwch, fried shrimp fritters, jamon/queso deep fried
Standing room only tapas bar at 11pm at night.. of course it's Spain! |
We walked around and got night shots of downtown Seville
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| A funny tall thin building in downtown Seville |
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| The cathedral at night |
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| The cathedral at a roof top bar |
An immediate contrast of the cathedral in the morning
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| The Catherdral in the day time |
The cathedral is an important part of Sevillians life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seville_Cathedral
This is supposed to be the largest catholic cathedral in the world! There's at least 3 different buildings that's built on top of each other to form the current structure. And the middle layer has a distinct Arab influence.
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| Main cathedral entrance (Already a long queue at 10am) |
The Spanish square is the other main attraction in Seville.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_de_Espa%C3%B1a,_Seville
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| The impressive Spanish square |
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| Another view of the Spanish square |
Spanish Square has tiles that showcase region of Spain and i took pictures of the ones that I been to. I just have to go back and take more as i visit more places. =)
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| The 6 regions in Spain that I have visited (Madrid, Barcelona, Granada, Mallorca and Seville) |
The next day, we explored downtown with more sightseeing
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| The Aquaducts from the Roman times |
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| Iglesia de San Lldefonso |
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| Entrance to the Arab quarters |
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| Mosaics |
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| More mosaics forming facade for a pool |
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| A regular courtyard in a Sevillian home |
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| Beautiful facade gate in a hotel |
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| Devil's grate. Observe how the metal interlocks? |
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| The city view at night from "The mushroom" |
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| The mushroom which is a viewing structure for the city |
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| A museum in the park, with Arabic influence in the architecture |
Ana and I went to watch a flamenco performance. Seeing the energy and dynamics of this culture, i am reminded this is a culture that expanded their colony across the globe.
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| The Flamenco performance |
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| With the performers |
And of course, the food and more food!
She's an expert in finding good tapas!
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| Typical Sevillian breakfast with good jamon and bread that reminds me of Cuban bread |
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| Fried sardines, prawn hamburger, squid meatballs, meat cigar roll, white fish with onions/peppers |
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| Jamon cutting |
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| Eslava - Great clams, fried sardines, fried red fish, cigar squid, foie gras, egg with mushroom cake and an emulsion dish with 18 ingredients |
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| Buen Comer with a small kitchen! |
