We visited Seville after leaving Portugal and before visiting Morocco. If I lived in Spain, this is where I would live! After leaving Portugal, we travelled through the area where all we could see were cork trees on both sides of the roads. No screw tops here on the wine, only corks. We drove through beautiful white painted villages and lots of olive, fig and almond trees everywhere.
Seville was such a lovely clean city, we walked everywhere here. The lovely old 1929 Expo site is still here in all its glory. Then there is the modern structure that the locals call 'the mushroom' but I think the correct name is 'the parasol'. See below.
It was here that we went to a traditional Flamenco show, I loved it but Rob was a bit bored with all the stomping of feet etc.
We had some lovely tapas meals here.
After we caught the ferry back from Morocco, we travelled through the Costa del Sol Andalusia region and ended up at Granada where we stayed the night and wandered around the city laneways and visited their medina area. Very different from Morocco's Medinas.
This was our chance to visit the Alhambra, a grand hilltop palace and fortress complex built by the Moorish kings. The buildings are amazing with the gorgeous mosaics and beautiful gardens.
Our Cosmos tour has now ended and we are again on our own in Madrid which is such a beautiful city. We went to the Madrid train station today to book the rest of our train trips through Spain, it was all very easy, one machine did it all for us. Tomorrow we head to Toledo for three nights.......
I love that last picture, the mosaics look like lace. :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm intrigued with "the mushroom" and wondering just what it is. A building somehow? a pavilion ? Guess I'll have to google it and see.
ReplyDeleteWikipedia explains it in full but basically its a wooden structure over the plaza. Interesting design!
DeleteFantastic, amazing buildings, so symetrical in design.
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