Giralda Tower: Soaring just over 300 feet high, the Tower began life as a minaret attached to the mosque, and serves now as a bell tower attached to the Cathedral. It is older than the church, dating from the 13th century, but has been much revised with the highest parts being added after the Cathedral’s [...]

The Cathedral: Depending on who you talk to, the Cathedral is not the third largest but the largest such building in the world — its overall surface area, at least, is said to be a bit more than even St. Peter’s if you hold the tape just right. (The Cathedral of Milan makes a similar [...]

Masterpieces by Murillo, Goya, Titian, and many others can be seen in the Cathedral’s several galleries, but you will find that countless elements of the building itself are as stunningly beautiful as the finest works on canvas — the vast, towering gilded altar is almost too much to take in at once glance. There is [...]

Strolling Seville

Seville is, simply put, a great walking town. It’s a good thing, too, because like most old European cities it’s a miserable driving town. Short of having a root canal, I can’t imagine a worse way to spend an afternoon than searching for a place to park in San Bartolem.
But on foot it’s [...]