This was one of the first things we saw upon getting off the train in Sevilla. They have all kinds of services available! This was either poor use of a Spanish-English dictionary, or a translator with a sense of humor.
Iglesia de la Anunciación
Dome of the Iglesia de la Anunciación
Courtyard of the Palacio de la Condesa de Lebrija
Palacio de la Condesa de Lebrija
Palacio de la Condesa de Lebrija: Moroccan furniture
Palacio de la Condesa de Lebrija: the piece of furniture to the right was originally a piano, but was later converted to a desk. Sigh...what Philistines!
Palacio de la Condesa de Lebrija: This is the kind of library I´d like to have.
Palacio de la Condesa de Lebrija: Cool door...notice that each face is different.
Palacio de la Condesa de Lebrija: A way-too-detailed picture of Doubting Thomas.
Palacio de la Condesa de Lebrija: the chapel
Palacio de la Condesa de Lebrija: this is an original Brueghel, for admirers of the painter of The Tower of Babel.
Palacio de la Condesa de Lebrija: the dining room. This is still available for use by anyone willing to spend 2000€ for the evening.
Palacio de la Condesa de Lebrija: ceiling of the dining room.
Palacio de la Condesa de Lebrija: mosaic in the entryway courtyard.
Palacio de la Condesa de Lebrija: a better view of the mosaic in the entryway courtyard. To get this picture, we had to open a window on the second floor when nobody was looking.
Palacio de la Condesa de Lebrija: guarding the stairway to the first floor (remember that in Europe, you have the ground floor, then the first, second, third, etc.).
Palacio de la Condesa de Lebrija: "I´d give both arms for...."
Palacio de la Condesa de Lebrija: the summer dining room. In Andalucía before air conditioning, temperature considerations were a serious thing.
An entryway to a church on the way to the cathedral.
Entryway to the Patio de los Naranjos (Patio of the Orange Trees) at the cathedral.
Sculpture over the entryway. This looks like Jesus clearing the moneylenders out of the temple.
Statue in front of the cathedral.
Main entry to the cathedral.
Cool cathedral gargoyles.
An overly graphic depiction of John the Baptist.
The cathedral.
Christopher Columbus´s tomb in the cathedral.
The cathedral: Capilla de la Antigua.
The cathedral: the choir area.
The cathedral: the main altar. It has 30+ sculptures depicting scenes from the life of Jesus.
The cathedral: detail from the main altar. Note all that dust!
The ramp to the top of the Giralda, the bell tower. For some reason, we weren't able to get consistenly non-blurry pictures. We're still figuring out this camera after several years of use!
The ramp to the top of the Giralda, the bell tower.
View from the ramp to the top of the Giralda, the bell tower.
View from the top of the Giralda.
View from the top of the Giralda: the Patio de los Naranjos.
Bells at the top of the Giralda.
Cool lions' heads at the top of the Giralda.
The cathedral: the pipe organ, one of the largest in Europe.
The other half of the pipe organ.
Sculpture at the top of the pipe organ.
The Giralda...that was quite a climb to the top, 34 levels.
The entryway to the Alcázar.
The Alcázar.
Inside of an arched doorway at the Alcázar.
The Alcázar: Salón de los Embajadores.
The Alcázar: Salón de los Embajadores. Portraits of the kings of Spain high up on the wall.
The Alcázar: Salón de los Embajadores. This is an interesting mixture of Western and Muslim artwork. The scrollwork is very Muslim, but Muslim art generally does not depict living beings (see the outlines of the birds). After taking Sevilla from the Moors, King Pedro I hired in Muslim artists to do his decorating.
The Alcázar: the Patio de las Muñecas (Patio of the Dolls).
The Alcázar: the Patio de las Muñecas (Patio of the Dolls). These little faces are what gives the patio its name.
The Alcázar: the Patio de las Muñecas (Patio of the Dolls). Cool nautilus shell symbol.
The Alcázar: one of the ornate ceilings.
The Alcázar. Detail of the above ceiling. Some of these carvings were faces (each different, of course), and some were flowers.
The Alcázar: another beautiful ceiling.
The Alcázar: a patio exiting to the gardens.
The Alcázar: a more-complicated-than-expected shrubbery maze.
The Alcázar: top view of the maze, mostly hidden behind the big hedges.
The Alcázar: Mercury´s Pond.
The Alcázar: Baños de Dª Mª de Padilla (Baths of Doña María de Padilla).
