Hotel Sevilla Center

Tuesday: Meet at the Hotel Sevilla center at 6:30. Drive for a long time, until we arrive at Almagro. Here we will visit the 17th century theatre of Lope de Vega. Lope de Vega is comparable to (many say better than) shakespeare, and the theater we are ...

... , is really an art style of song and dance that originated in Spain and the region south of Sevilla.   This version of Flamenco seemed to centre around the soulful, yet painful sounding, song being chanted by one or two singers with support from ...

... a day in Córdoba because we then traveled to Seville. I always get confused when people say Seville because I think of it as Sevilla - I think it's the same place, but I'm not sure why there are different spellings. I'll be sure to ask Concha one day. ...

... .  Or at least the week (in summer) of my discontent.  After throwing our stuff into the very nice hotel near the city center, we went walking in the hot and humid Seville weather.  Seriously, it's almost 40 degrees here.... maybe over 100 ...

... to my hotel and spent most of my 8 hours in Bergamo sleeping. Early the next morning I headed to the airport and was off to Sevilla! With the exception of having to wait over an hour at the airport for the bus into the center and then having to wait at ...

... was closed for tourists on Sunday (it was open for worship only) and so we decided to visit the other big attraction in Sevilla: the Reales Alcazares. The Reales Alcazares was built in 913 by an Emir over some ruins of Roman barracks. It was then ...

... Portugal! We had quite a journey to get here, but i couldn't be more excited to be here! We had to meet at the Hotel Sevilla Center (30 minutes away from my house) at 7:00am. Wow, that's so early. So Chelsea and I woke up early, and started getting ...

... of a providence of Spain like Malaga and Granada. The classrooms are small but very nice. After we left the CIEE center, Becca (my roommate from the hotel), Heather (her friend) & I went on a walk. First we went to Starbucks to enjoy some hot drinks ...

... there and had not traveled to the islands yet, so he was as anxious as I to see the fabled isles. I took two flights from Sevilla to Athens (no airport issues this time) and then we jumped on a ferry from the Athens suburb of Piraeus at 8 p.m. We arrived ...

... which is always, it is. And its about philosophy which I really don´t like. Anyways, my parents were here last week. They arrived in Sevilla Thursday Sept. 27th and stayed till Friday Oct. 5th. I went to the airport to pick up my mom around 11:30 on ...

... a person with no sense of direction so its my worst nightmare. In 10 years, you might still find me wondering the streets of Sevilla. Almost immediately after we returned to our casa, we had to head back to CIEE for more tapas with our group. We went ...

... was an incredibly enthusiastic, flamboyant man from Brazil who apparently travels the world learning different dances. He's been in Sevilla for 3 months learning Flamenco. Honestly, sometimes I think those crazy events, like getting lost for 2 hours in ...

... I stepped from the rail station, there was a row of taxis waiting and I was whisked to within a block of my hotel in minutes. The whole arrival in Sevilla was the smoothest experience I´ve had yet in any town. By the time I was settled in at the ...

... across this lovely country. When I last wrote, I was a time warped zombie, four hours from a scheduled morning departure for Sevilla. Honestly, I went to bed thinking that there was no way I was getting out of bed when the alarm went off. But ...

... by the yellow lamps posted around the moat. We only stayed there for half an hour and then the bus took us to the NH hotel in Sevilla. I pretty much went straight to bed…travel wears me out. Before I did though, I took advantage and took a bath. I ...

... .  Driving through the unknown was a bit tense for us, but we eventually found our way to the exit highway and headed west for Sevilla. Along this three-ish hour drive, we were again in awe of the number of olive trees.  We also saw a number of ...

Time: 4:40 AM here in Sevilla Place: 6th floor balcony overlooking a sting of closed businesses, dark windows, and dimly lit street signs. Buenas dias...or better put, buenas noche. I thought my body had adjusted to the time change but maybe not ...

... Shelley and I found out! Who put a bunch of American students in a hotel in the middle of a labrynth in Sevilla? We started off in the towns center with a tour of Real Alcazar and the "cathedral" with is the largest cathedral in the world! We decided ...

... , I bet she was wishing I WAS sleeping after that) we packed our bags, drank some coffee, and began our walk to the Hotel Sevilla Center for the last time this semester. We stopped at the grocery store to pick up food for the weekend and several boxes of ...

... been very variable, which I certainly did not expect from a region known for its stifling summers. Regardless of conditions though, Sevilla is a stunner of a city. Our hostal is smack in the middle of the old Jewish quarter, which is fascinating to ...