Sunny Seville, Day 2

We had our first taste of local Tapas last night. This is something the locals have from about 5.30pm, then they have dinner around 10pm, at which time we were fast asleep! Today we spent the day wandering around the Plaza de Espana. A truly amazing building in a very large park that was the setting for the Ibero-American Exposition in 1929. The building is decorated with locally produced glazed ceramic tiles depicting the various regions of Spain.

The surrounding gardens are vast with huge plane  and eucalyptus trees, providing shade from the 25 degree heat here today. Lots of fountains and seating everywhere covered with local ceramic tiles.

Location

We then spent a couple of hours in the Archaeological Museum as it had an exhibition of artifacts from Italica 9 km north west of Seville. It was founded in 206BC. (that is not a typing mistake!) It is one of the earliest Roman Cities in Spain and was the birth palce of Emperor Hadrian, you have probably heard of his famous wall in England. We would have loved to go to theMuseum of Cultural Arts pictured below. but as it was 3.30 we needed to eat.

Thee are so many little, narrow streets here, you often have to duck into a doorway as a car comes past and the footpath, when there is one, disspaears. But then there are a lot of streets free of cards as well. This is a photo of a typical Plaza.

 

This last photo is the courtyard of our hotel, the window in the centre is our room. I hope you have enjoyed your glimps of Seville, tomorrow we are off to Granada and the Ahlambra!!!