Although by our fourth week we
were tired of travelling from hotel to hotel, The Alcázar
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One of the reasons we loved Sevilla was that it was a large, modern city. In searching of our hotel in the
old part of the city, we stumbled across |
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Our hotel looked out onto the
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The cathedral was enormous, one of
the biggest in the world, Christopher Columbus’s tomb was
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We took a bus to the outskirts of
the city to see a pretty good housed in an old Convent. It used the juxtaposition of the old
architecture and the modern art well. |
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The definite highlight of Sevilla is the Real Alkázar (the It was the palace of the Islamic
rulers, and after they were thrown out of Because of this, it never went to
ruin, like the |
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The huge gardens. |
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