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| Saturday, we decided to take a day trip to Sevilla. They aparently throw the grandaddy Semana Santa festival. This picture is about three hours from show time and while it doesn’t look like it the streets were really quite croweded. Our bus left before the parade came through the part of town we were in but just seeing the setup was really impressive. |
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| Sevilla is also the home of a seriously honkin large cathedral built about a billion years ago. It actually might be ?the biggest? in Europe. Unfortunately the line to get in was even bigger. |
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| This photo doesn’t even do the scale justice. The cathedral actually takes up about a city block. We saw people in the bell tower which might have come close to making the tour line worth it. |
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| This is a ?back entrance? to the cathedral that we passed on our way to the bus stop. I liked it for the empty pedestals that must have been designed to hold status of future saints. Sevilla is absolutely packed with statues of religious and cultural figures, every single one is of a man. I think Mary and Isabella must be the only women of consequence in Spanish culture. |
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| Awww…. |
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| Of course we were so exhusted after riding the bus for four hours and then walking around for 45 minutes that we had to stop for a coffee. By the way, Sevilla has enough Starbucks (not where we went) to make any American feel right at home. |
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| We did not frequent the Starbucks, but headed for a local cafe. Wells orders Cafe Americano and Kate orders Cafe Cortado. |
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| This appeard to be the front door of someones private residence. Way cool. |
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| Walking through the gardens. |
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| Without a set plan we decide to do what all good tourists do and take a bus tour. It was actually great. |
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| A Moorish river watchtour was one of the first sights on the tour. Legend has it that the gold dome was actually gold brick. The Christians kicked the Muslems out of the city around 1250AD, that makes this what I call ?a really old building?. |
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| Plaza de Espana was one of the coolest buildings in town. It was built in the 1920s to host a trade expo that everyone hoped would rekindle trade with the Americas and bring Sevilla and Andalucia back to prominence. Like almost all of the cool/old/historic buildings in town, it now houses government offices. |
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| This is my official entry into the ?Lamest Pose of Our Trip? contest. |
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| We picked a lunch recomendataion out of Lonely Planet and it turned out to be really great. This is Kate’s entry into the ?lamest pose of the trip? contest. |
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| Kate liked the tapas so much she decided to give us her raging bull impression while waiting for la cuenta (the bill). |
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| We think this is a status of San Francisco…not that we really cared to much but the faces in the pedestal were crazy! |
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| After lunch we bumbed around a little bit. Streetside on Avenida de la Constitucion was full of chairs and ?La Campana? a famous bakery was so packed you had to take a number. |
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| Hola. |
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| Keep in mind that all Royal Officials come to Sevilla during this week. It is SO much bigger than any other holiday. |
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