After about 6 hours of sleep from a horrible 1st evening in Seville, I woke up, ready to explore the sights! My legs were definitely aching by the end of the day after walking for over 8 hours!
Plaza de España
I was totally unimpressed when I walked around the building (which I subsequently realised was the back of the building).
However upon walking into the building, I was “Wow-ed”! I was greeted by an amazingly huge courtyard with a large fountain in the centre as well as a semi-circle river shaping the landscape of the front of the building, covered with bridges.
There were also huge tiled panels dedicated to each province of Spain that surrounded the front of the building. The building was massive and was heavily decorated with ceramics and carved in many places.
The pictures alone doesn’t quite do this place justice, as it is just so expansive that I couldn’t even capture the whole place in just 1 shot! I must have stayed here for about an hour and took lots of pictures.
Apparently Plaza de España was also captured in certain scenes of Star Wars and Lawrence of Arabia!
Plaza de America
Houses the Museo de Artes y Costumbres Populares and Museo Arqueologico. Didn’t have any intention to visit the museums thus only took pictures of the building facade.
Palacio de San Telmo
Again, another huge building, though this one did not allow any admission. See how long this place is that I couldn’t even capture it into a panoramic shot!
Hospital de la Santa Caridad
Can’t believe that this is the entrance of a hospital!
Check out the facade!
Teatro de la Maestranza
It is strange they have a statue of Mozart here, and with the dates written as 1791 – 1991. I wonder why…
Plaza de Toro
Another Bullfighting ring here in Seville. Decided to do another tour, just to see how different it is from the one in Madrid. It is definitely smaller and architecturally not as impressive as Madrid’s.
However, they had a really good museum in there, and thus still worth visiting. The guide was not as engaging as Jorge though.
Monasterio de Santa Maria de las Cuevas
It was an extremely long walk to this place! Probably took me about 40 mins, and when I arrived, it felt like I have seen an oasis!
The monastery was converted into an internationally renowned ceramics factory (thus explain the huge cone like structures within the compounds) in 1835. The place has a huge compound and many times I just got goosebumps as I walked through the hallways.
It has since been converted to a Contemporary Art Centre, and it seemed really strange as I walk through the galleries, with strange pieces of artwork and video shows.
It was a good thing that the admission was free during the time I was there as I wouldn’t have paid for the admission actually!
I found it cool seeing the security guard zipping by in a segweg (I think this is what it is called!) though, as they probably need it in making their rounds within its huge compound.
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