Seville

Well, this is going to get a bit confusing now.... this blog will only let me put 1 enty and 5 photos on per day, so i´ve been trying to catch up on the summer trip stuff. i´ve still got lots to go, but in the meantime am going to start writing about the trip i´m on at the moment.... in Spain!
Well, it all starts in Seville. It´s a beautiful city with many many things to explore! One of the main sights is the cathedral, which is very very Spainsh!! It´s not at all like a traditional English style cathedral.. They have all kinds of rooms and little altars plonked in the middle of it! They also incorporated a part of the mosque that used to be there into the cathedral.... Its the Giralda, the tower where the call to prayer was made when the area was under Islamic rule. I climbed to the top and took this photo from inside the tower, looking over the top of the cathedral...












Right next to the cathedral is the Alcazar, which was started in the 9th century by the Spanish king, and added to in the 11th century when the Muslims took over. It is absolutely gorgeous inside- its amazing how many Islamic buildings survived and were kept in good condition by the Spanish! Quite often they built European/Christian monuments and/or buildings which incoroprated the previous Islamic ones...... something which I haven´t seen anywhere else in the world!This is the part of the inside of the Alcazar...

This is the garden and the remains of the wall which used to surround the Alcazar in Islamic times....

There are so many beautiful sites in Seville, I can´t show you all of them here, but here is just one more from Seville, the Plaza de España. It is really breathtaking.....