Dec. 22nd, 2023

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After the Alcazar, we went on to Seville Cathedral.

The outside featured many Seville orange trees. )

It was a very impressive building )

We went inside. No photos because I tend not to inside churches. (Not without explicit permission, holy sites are holy etc)

So you will have to rely on websites for the indoor pictures. The big highlight is the tomb of Christopher Columbus (https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/tomb-of-christopher-columbus) which is full of symbolism.

(In a statement to annoy L. the Assassin's Creed film did a very good job of recreating the inside)

I then walked up to the top of the Giralda bell tower (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giralda). I cannot comment on whether the walkways are big enough to walk horses up and down, as the story goes, but they certainly were broader and were flat not stairs, so far easier to climb.

Photos from the belltower )

Another view from the top

This time the bullring is in the middle.  There is a modern circular tower, ribbed blue and brown sort of middle right

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