Seville Scenes, 2017, 1

We visited Seville in 2010 and again in 2013, with great satisfaction. Some few things in the world are worth visiting two or even three times. Seville is one of them, and we stayed four days all-told in 2017, seeing a few new things and mostly things we had enjoyed before. If we're lucky, we'll come back again some day. Previous blog posts on Seville are:

http://roadeveron.blogspot.com.es/2010/01/seville.html

http://roadeveron.blogspot.com.es/2010/01/seville-cathedral.html

http://roadeveron.blogspot.com.es/2010/01/alcazar.html

http://roadeveron.blogspot.com.es/2010/01/seville-out-takes.html

and

http://roadeveron.blogspot.com.es/2013/04/seville-caution.html

http://roadeveron.blogspot.com.es/2013/04/sevilles-feria-by-day.html

http://roadeveron.blogspot.com.es/2013/04/sevilles-feria-by-evening.html

http://roadeveron.blogspot.com.es/2013/04/flamencas.html

http://roadeveron.blogspot.com.es/2013/04/sevilles-alacazar-gardens.html

http://roadeveron.blogspot.com.es/2013/04/sic-transit-gloria.html

http://roadeveron.blogspot.com.es/2013/04/sevilles-alcazar.html

http://roadeveron.blogspot.com.es/2013/04/seville-sights.html

http://roadeveron.blogspot.com.es/2013/04/seville-tiles.html

http://roadeveron.blogspot.com.es/2013/04/for-tawana.html

It was April Feria, and, of course

We had to observe the local dress code

Thus

Everybody do'in it, do'in ,do'in it

First day, just walking around mostly

Comparison shopping

Eating well

Shrimp and monkfish

Well-postered restaurant

Street scene

Moorish baths...now a restaurant...sic transit,
Gloria

Kissing alleys

For Tawana

We never miss one of your shoppes and are always taking pix for you...

Are you documenting your work?

Seville Tiles

Tiles are all over this part of the world--particularly great in Portugal--but I was struck with the number commercial and other uses in Seville...

Six different tiled portals on this touriste
shoppe 

The rest looked like this

Billboard

Beautiful entry

Farmacia

Architect's signature, under the balcony

1929

Bar Europa

Heritage use; not one of his best-sellers

Butcher

Baker

Somebody's casa

Entrance to an ordinary-looking apartment
building (it was the same in Dos Hermanas,
20 miles away, where our campground was...)

Could someone do this in tile, please?

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