Seville Sights

After the morning and half the afternoon at the Alcazar, we walked around much of the old town...

Sic Transit, Gloria department again: this is the cigar factory
where Carmen worked....now merely the university

Street lamps, dated 1832

Hotel Alfonso, one of Seville's emblems; we were going to
finish up there with a sherry in the garden, but took a wrong
turn and wound up at Burger King

Cathedral square, cathedral bit, and tower
(originally the minaret)

Entrance to the cathedral with replica of the
weather vane that sits atop

We got as far as the gift shoppe but decided
to skip the cathedral since we missed the
Holy Week parade pictured above; and
since we had seen it in 2010; and since it is
another of those fraudulent "Gothic"
cathedrals one sees in Spain...Gothic
trappings on the outside, thoroughly
Baroque (and dark) on the inside; I am
reminded of Nabokov's claim (contra
Pseudo-Dionysus) that the
gargoyle monsters are on the outside to
show that they have been expelled; in
these cathedrals it is the Gothic that has
been expelled!

Main square again

Some beautiful buildings

Ditto

Ditto again

Kissing alleys in the barrio

Recycling millstones

El Cid still presiding