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Your apartment is located in the centre of Seville, the perfect venue for sightseeing this sparkling city its cosmopolitan buzz and its rich traditions; only minutes walk from many of Seville’s famous landmarks, as The Cathedral, Real Alcázar, Pilatos Palace (casa Pilatos), Giralda, Santa Cruz Quarter, Fine arts or Flamenco dance museums, and Maria Luisa Park.
You can enjoy a drink with "tapa" (creative small portions) or a "ración"(dish) outdoors most of the year around in one of many traditional Spanish Tapas bars or you can simply meander to many of the fine-dining restaurants, these two types of dining out in Seville kind of blend together, and make Seville and its gastronomy such an amazing city.
Just walk around and have the opportunity to explore and experience this friendly tourist city of inspiration and positive emotions, full of Historic complex designations for most of its gardens, buildings and churches, even the streets where your apartment is located; take a stroll amidst the flowers, fountains and the characteristic scent of orange blossom in gardens and alleyways.
Seville is the capital of Andalusia community the epitomize the Spanish "Golden Age", the trading power that acquired through the establishment of the Spanish Empire in the New World, incorporating vestiges of Tartessian, Carthaginian, Roman, Visigoth and Islamic culture and centuries of ecclesiastical power.
This is the Birthplace of two, second and third of the so-called “Five Good Roman Emperors”, Trajan and Hadrian, Seville inspired Velazquez, the literary works of Don Juan Tenorio by Zorrilla, Seville was in the mind of Mozart, Bizet and Rossini when producing their memorable operas "Carmen" and "El Barbero de Sevilla, it is a city eager to revive its prosperous past as A. Morgado wrote in 1587, “to pave the streets of Seville with bricks of gold, silver and precious stones instead of bricks of clay”.
The City, founded by the Romans and ruled by Muslims for over 500 years, retains in its configuration the physical integrity of the original buildings and the juxtaposition of the various major historical stages.
Could you imagine for a while a huge mosque with its minaret? This is today the Cathedral with its bell-tower, and close to this religious building, the Moorish Palace residence of the Moslem governor, built in a lush style? This is nowadays the Alcazar used even today as the Spanish royal family's residence in this city; notably the environments, distances and streets are preserved as originally.
This is the city that owns a masterpiece of Almohad architecture, The Giralda, the former minaret; the largest Gothic edifice in Europe, with its five naves, The Cathedral, founded in 1403 on the site of a former mosque, where is held aloft by four giant statues the tomb of Christopher Columbus, and one of the most beautiful architectural works of the Renaissance its elliptical space of the Cabildo, created by Hernán Ruiz; the Alcázar constructed in the 10th century as the palace of the Moslem governor, that bear exceptional testimony to the civilization of the Alhomads and to that of Christian Andalusia, which was thoroughly imbued with Moorish influences, retaining the same purpose for which it was originally intended: as a residence of monarchs and heads of state, and the Archive of indies, home to the greatest collection of documentation concerning relations with the New World, one of the clearest examples of Spanish Renaissance architecture.
The Giralda was re-designed in the Renaissance period by Hernán Ruiz its "chapter house" is the first known example of the use of the elliptical floor plan in the western world and influenced the construction of numerous towers in Spain, and in America, The real fun is to climb this famous landmark, there are ramps, which are much easier to climb than stairs. The views over the city from the top are stunning. It is all very impressive.
During two centuries Seville was the hub of the Spanish monarchy and played a major role in Latin America following by Columbus's travels; within El Alcazar, in the Admirals' Hall, plans were made, for a number of history's greatest explorations, notably the circumnavigation of the globe (1519-1522) by Magellan and Sebastián Elcano.
Seville boasts the only inland port in Spain, the Guadalquivir River is navigable for 80 km inland, helping intensively to consolidate the Spanish "Golden Age" in terms of power royal sovereignty and the trading hegemony that Spain acquired through the New World when Seville became the economic center of the Spanish Empire in 1492 , A. Morgado described this facts: “A thing of admiration not seen in any other port is the sight of carts dragged by four oxen which, when the fleets come in, carry the silver and gold bars from the portside to the Trading House of the Indies,” …“No less marvelous is the sight of the enormous riches accumulated in many streets in Seville inhabited by merchants from Flanders, Greece, Genoa, France, Italy, England and other parts, and from the Indies and Portugal ... The area is full of silversmiths, jewellers, sculptors, silk weavers and haberdashers of immense wealth”.
Seville is a city of passion, flamboyance, intrigue, and romance that retains an hybrid of contrasts visible at every turn, that embraces and mesmerize in equal measure. Hispalis at Roman times, then Isbiliya, and today Seville embraces an unique compendium of cultures, as feeling itself fully satisfied, likes saying "from Seville to heaven"
The result of many cultures that have inhabited and ruled Seville for over 2000 years is today the city you can enjoy, with one of the largest historical centers in Europe, remarkable monumental complex, home to the famous Flamenco and one of most lively, charismatic and romantic cities in Spain.
Stay delighted both when visiting a landmark of the world heritage in Seville while enjoying such as splendid place for City Breaks.
Enjoy the Seville’s distinct charm like from whom is eager to live up to all of your expectations.
Best wishes.
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