The best seasons to visit the city of Andalusia are autumn and spring
Warm and welcoming like few cities can be, colorful and fascinating, walk around in the shade of the sheets suspended between one building and another or cycling, following the course of the Guadalquivir or under the sun that illuminates and intensifies the splendid tiles that decorate, making it unique, the Spain Square, anyone who arrives in the capital of Andalusia will be conquered by the fresh air that is breathed here.
Former capital of Spain, Seville is in fact a city that invites you to share spaces, places and street life, enjoying the architecture, the typical Andalusian one, which hides and at the same time also speaks of the exotic influence ofmoorish art, but also of music and dance. It is no coincidence that it is precisely here and not in any other Spanish city where some of the most famous operas such as Carmen, Don Giovanni (Don Juan) and The Barber of Seville (precisely) were set.
The city is full of cultural and traditional events. It is celebrated in November The film festival of Sevilla. On December 8 of each year, the Cathedral of Seville hosts the Feast of the Immaculate on the occasion of which the traditional dance of the "six" is performed, the young people of the choir who dance in front of the main altarpiece. And Seville has now become almost synonymous with Flamenco, which is commonly considered capital, and where, each year, the Biennial dedicated to him represents the third most important event on the calendar. In the first place there is only Holy Week, that is, the religious festival par excellence that attracts more than 500 thousand people to the streets and that includes, among other things, the parade of the Virgins with silver and gold crowns and embroidered mantillas. , the exit from the church virgin of the macarena, Maundy Thursday, and the great fireworks on Sunday that close the celebrations, and the April Fair, which officially begins on Monday, at midnight, two weeks after Holy Week and makes the footsteps and music of Sevillana resonate through the streets.
Around it is the city, extended along both banks of the river, and divided almost perfectly between the old part, preserved as it was, to the east, where the historic neighborhoods of santa cruz and dell'Arenal, where you can enjoy some tapas while you savor the typical tinto Verano, and then toast with sangria, and the western one, more modern, initially developed with theIberoamerican Exhibition of 1929 and then with the great International Exhibition.
The large one is suggestive. Cathedral of Sevilla, the largest in Spain and the third in the Christian world after San Pedro in Rome and San Pablo in London, built imposing and magnificent where the great mosque was built from the time of the caliphate of CĂłrdoba and Granada, of the that only the Giralda, that is, the old minaret, today the bell tower of the Cathedral and a symbolic monument of Sivilgia, and the Courtyard of the Orange trees.
Interesting to see it in detail. Maria Luisa Park or for grounds from the 14th century alcĂĄzar palace (which together with the Cathedral, the Giralda and theArchivo de Indias has been declared a world heritage site), get lost in the winding streets of the center, cross the bridge of lively Triana or navigate along the Guadalquivir (the only river where it is possible to do so in all of Spain), taking advantage of the boat departures every half hour from the MarquĂ©s del Contadero Dock, near the Tower of Gold, and admire the profile of the Plaza del Toro and the towers of the Plaza de España, the old and modern pavilions of the Expos of '92 and '29, historical buildings, convents and monasteries, including that of Santa MarĂa de las Cuevas from where Christopher columbus He planned the trip that led him to discover America.
