Good Friday (6 Apr 07) - Our first morning after brekky at our Sevillian hotel, Vime Corrigdor.
We visited the Seville Cathedral with its Giralda, a brick tower (the city's landmark) built to be a minaret of the mosque. The Cathedral was built over the main mosque of Seville, and what remains of the old mosque is the Giralda tower
Mausoleum of Christopher Columbus. Apparently his mortal remains are in the coffin carried on the shoulders of the four statues. No idea why but everyone was touching the golden shoe of this statue, but being the typical Singaporean "kiasu", I had to touch it too.
In one of the treasure rooms of the Cathedral
Highlight was the 18 metre high Main Alterpiece where scenes of the Old and New Testaments are represented, with more than a thousand sculptures, and considered one of the largest in the Christian world.
We climbed to the top of the Giralda to get a view of Seville. We climbed 35 ramps instead of stairs. Ramps were built to enable horses to get all the way to the top.
At the top - the Giralda is still used as a belltower today.
View of the Alcazar and the Cathedral
View of the Cathedral and the flying buttresses
View of the bull ring
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