Tag: visiting Sevilla

• La Giralda, Sevilla

  

  Seville Cathedral stands on the site of a great mosque, built by the Almohads in the 12th century. It is the largest cathedral in Europe. Its bell-tower, La Giralda, was in its original incarnation a minaret, on top of which were erected a Christian belfry and Christian symbols. You climb La Giralda not by stairs […]

  Glen Fisher

  October 28, 2018

  Photography, Travel

  Almohads, Andalucia photographs, architectural photography, Black and White photography, La Giralda, photographs of Seville, Sevilla, Seville, Seville Cathedral, travelling in Spain, travels in Andalucia, visiting Sevilla

• Santa Cruz, Sevilla

  

  My guidebook – the estimable DK Eyewitness Travel volume on Spain – says of the Santa Cruz district of Sevilla that it represents Seville ‘at its most romantic and compact.’ I would agree. A maze of narrow alleys and quiet plazas, Santa Cruz was once a Jewish ghetto, but now is a tourist mecca – […]

  Glen Fisher

  October 20, 2018

  Photography, Travel

  DK Eyewitness travel guide to Spain, Santa Cruz Seville, Sevilla tourism, Spanish tourism, visiting Sevilla