Seville 6/15

Anna enjoying the ride to Seville



Seville is the capital of Andalucia which is the southern province/region of Spain. This is the location of the majority of the tourism to Spain as it is sunny and has many beautiful beaches. Seville is about an hour away from the coast.

Krystle’s cousins were real champs as we walked around all day and saw the Alacazar Palace, La Giralda, bull ring, and other boring historical sites. Krystle had a crepe and the rest of us dined on delicious fried fish, calamari, and shrimp!

Uncle Tim pointing out a replica of the Christopher Colombus's ship


Tapestry of Spain, North Africa, and the Mediterranean Sea.


The Garden at the palace




La Giralda, the church


Seville has the 3rd largest temple in Christianity (Catholic), called La Giralda. It is unbelievable! An enormous It also has the body of Christopher Columbus within it.
The cathedral was built in 12th century and its architects built quite an impressive structure. It also had a high clock tower that we walked up and I got great pictures of the city from the tower.

The tower






Inside la Giralda (the church)







Tower views








Christopher Colombus body inside La Giralda!




A then a now look from the clock tower.
Then


Now


I guess the real highlight of the day wasn’t even an ancient part of the city. It was that a portion of the road around La Giralda was marked off for shooting of the movie Knight and Day. We were unsure if they were refilming a scene or adding footage, but Diaz and Cruise were no where to be seen. However, when we were leaving Seville at the end of the day, there was a large group of people and cameras outside a hotel that they were at. We knew they were there because we saw them being interviewed on TV with Seville in the background. Perhaps they were doing a special advertisement for the movie in Seville to promote the use of the church, city, and country in the movie.

Plaza de Espana.