CavaTravel.com: Travel Info: Sevilla, Spain

Sevilla is for many the jewel of southern Spain. A rich record of historical change and conflict, Sevilla offers a glimpse into some of Spain's most well-known ambience, with elegant public plazas, the magnficent Alcázar and the Catedral, and streets lined with orange trees. [Full Profile]

Featured Sights
See the Plaza de España, which is comprised of pavillions built for one of Sevilla's World's Fair occasions, and where you can row a picturesque canal.

Museums / Culture
Visit the Alcázar and see the convergence of Spanish and Moorish architecture and its contribution to the local culture.

Restaurants
Sevilla offers restaurants of every type and price range, with good food, elegant surroundings, and the spice of tradition mixed with modern overtones.

Hotels
Some of the most charming lodging in Sevilla are the small hotels and 2-star hostels, which offer full amenities in postcard-ready Andalusian streets.

Daytrips
Granada » Córdoba » Jérez de la Frontera

Region
Andalucía was once home to the center of world culture, when a Moorish civilization thrived and produced the greatest universities and libraries of its age. A long cultural history of mixture and real joie de vivre has been distilled to what is now a rich folkloric tradition and a rhythm unique to the region.

Transportation
The AVE high-velocity train rushes visitors back-and-forth to Madrid, and regional rail lines take travelers throughout the south of Spain, toward or away from summer heat.

History / News
Sevilla has grown around the Guadalquivir, the Big Wadi, Andalucía's great river.

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This magnificent city is a perfect introduction to Moorish Spain. Seville, capital of the Moorish kingdom during the Middle Ages, rival of Córdoba in wealth and prestige. After the city fell to the Christian forces, it became the main center for trade with America. Christopher Columbus is buried in the city's cathedral — the largest Gothic church in Europe.

In Roman times, Spain was divided into several provinces. This part of Spain was Baetica, Seville was the capital of one of Baetica's regions. The Romans called Seville Hispalis. Just outside Seville was another Roman settlement: Italica. This Italica was founded by the Roman general Scipio Africanus for his veterans. (Later, the Moors cannibalized many of Italica's columns for building their mosques.) The Roman Emperor Trajan was born in Italica.

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Xampanyería: A Memoir of Spain

Nothing easier than getting lost in the ruins of another time.

The cobbles, the asphalt, the air were rich with sea salt. The mountains on the northwestern edge of Barcelona invited morning fogs to hang over the whole city, sinking only reluctantly back to the shoreline. These fogs lifted the sediment of history, daily, into the air, a ritual cleaning. A salty timeless savor would, daily, override the sooty-city residue of industry. For those intimate, empty hours, life itself opened up, became vulnerable, reliant upon our will. We tended to attempt to dwell among the salts.

No matter what my intended destination (many days I would have an insurmountable urge to pass by the Museo Picasso; other days, it was more important to find myself at the port’s edge, watching the world in flux), all streets, every exiting of an art gallery, every callejón or escondrijo, every late café luncheon, would lead me back to the xampanyería. We would sometimes joke that all of the Barri Gótic was a series of compartments of the spirit, all fascinating but exhausting, all begging the loud, unclean serenity of the crowded cava bar.

At four p.m., possibly, definitely within the hour, one could locate Michael or Saint Jerome or Renault, Farola or the Dutchman. Nevertheless, it was always the outside, the persistence of the old places, that would drive us there. It was always an integral part of a more organismal experience, never solely, or statically, ‘a separate peace’. [Full Text]

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Oxígeno y ciprés: junio en España

ENTRANDO...

Camino por el pasillo abierto que lleva hasta la puerta. Me recuerdo. Recuerdo sin fallos el lugar y el sentido del lugar. Ver el mismo cactus, el encanto de las plantas que llueven sobre los muros, ver la casa, el umbral, la cara y bondad insondable de Gloria, que siempre me cuidaba tan bien, significa una colaboración improbable con el fluír temporal.

Cenamos y hablamos de literatura, de leyenda y de la verdad. Hablamos de ese espacio infinito que corre por entre los nudos y planicies de la biografía a medias.

Me encuentro entre planes, entre mundos, entre variados trayectos de un progreso incierto que se llama vida. El aire tenue y privado está repleto de fantasmas e ideales, preferencias, gustos, y todo lo demás que pueda trascender los cambios cotidianos de la vida... [Texto completo]

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