Giralda Tower Seville

Plaza del Triunfo, Seville , Andalusia, Spain and Canary Islands

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    Living in Sevilla

    Lived in Sevilla for 2 weeks learning Spanish - amazing …

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    Sevilla is the Spain that Everyone Imagines

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    My friend Tara and I went on a whirlwind trip to Sevilla, having found extremely cheap flights! (5 euros each way!). I had been there before but it was 5 years ago and it was like discovering a whole new city!

    We got into Sevilla very late at night, and all we had time for was a nice dinner at a little cafe. We tried some of the local …

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    Seville

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    We found Seville to be one of the prettiest cities in Spain and possibly in Europe that we have seen so far. The wealth of the Americas flowed through this city (and Cadiz) for 3 centuries, and traces of this wealth are visible everywhere. The city ...

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    Scorched in Seville

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    ... . Visited the Cathedral (bigger than St Pauls and St Peters - biggest in Europe?) - it is outrageously big. Climbed the Giralda tower on the cathedral which is the only part of the old Mosque left (which was destroyed to make way for the the ...

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    Sevilla, Spain

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    ... a mosque but was converted to a cathedral in 1248. Construction on the current cathedral took place between 1434-1517. Lee and I climbed the Giralda Tower for great views of Sevilla. We then headed off to the bus terminal for our 15€ trip to ...

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    Sevilla!!

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    ... the charm of Southern Spain continues to grow on me.   Naturally, we visited the Alcazar palace and the Cathedral with the famous landmark of the Giralda tower.  The buildings of the Alcazar are not as pleasing as those of the Alhambra.  ...

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    Seville

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    ... in the world, and the 3rd biggest cathedral in the world, after St Pauls and the Vatican. Climbed up the Giralda tower (35 flights of steps) and got a beautiful view of the city. My frame of reference to describe this city is a bit small, but from my ...

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    Everything that is Spain, Is Sevilla

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    ... tower, called the Giralda, and the still standing keyhole entrance to the main garden characteristic of the older, Arabic style. The Giralda tower is all that is left of the original mosque that was built some 700 years ago. When the Christians ...

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    Here in a past life...

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    ... the world. It's MASSIVE! Built on the site of the former mosque the Christians appropriated the minaret, which today is called Giralda Tower, and turned it into a bell tower.  There are 42 flights of stairs (actually ramps, not stairs) to get to ...

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    Flamenco y toros

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    ... (after St. Peter's in Rome and St. Paul's in London)  and walked up the 34 ramps to the Giralda tower for a gorgeous view of Seville.  The last time we were here, more than 40 years ago, Seville was a town of small quaint streets - now a ...

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    Andalucia porta mi via..

    ... , discarded napkins, a few squished cockroaches... mm... tomorrow's tapas maybe? Met two obnoxious Italians at the top of the Giralda tower who were delighted to meet a fellow countryman to whom they could finally vent their pent-up frustration at how ...

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    Granada to Seville under blue skies

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    ... main altar – apparently also the biggest, or one of the biggest, or something. We also liked the ramps up the Giralda (tower), apparently made so guards could ride their horses up. After our cathedral visit we started back to the hotel via a bar ...