My travel in Europe:
Western Andalusia, Southern Spain

Western Andalusia in thirteen days

1. Day 1 - 4: Malaga - Cordoba
2. Day 4 - 6: Seville*
3. Day 6 - 8: Cadiz
4. Day 8 - 9: Cadiz - Algeciras along Atlantic coast
5. Day 9 - 11: Ronda
6. Day 11 - 13: Marbella

Round trip in Andalusia in Spain, Seville, part 2:

Cordoba:

American black coffee, a must for some people to wake up in the morning :-)

We almost always travel with the ALSA busses, easy to by tickets in automatic machines and very cheap, Cordoba to Seville about 8 Euros.

We have now come to the highlands of Spain on our way to Seville. We was surprised to find the nature so green here.

Seville:

Seville bus station, we had plan our living to not be too far away from here.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Seville (Seville, Wiki)

Our apartment in Seville, a big terrace that we enjoyed to sit at in the evening.

Main door on upper floor.

When we rent apartments there are normally no breakfast included, but there are plenty of restaurants where we could get breakfasts.

Seville, Placa de la San Francisco.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ History of Seville (History of Seville, Wiki)

Seville Cathedral.

Plaza Virgen de los Reyes.

Pope John Paul II at the Plaza Virgen de los Reyes.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Pope John Paul II (Pope John Paul II, Wiki)

Seville Cathedral.

Seville Cathedral.

Seville Cathedral.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Seville Cathedral (Seville Cathedral, Wiki)

Alcazar of Seville, an enormous palace in center of Seville, don't miss to visit it if you are here.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Alcar of Seville (Alcazar of Seville, Wiki)

On our way to Plaza de Toros we passed this alley.

Entrance to the bull fighter arena at the Plaza de Toros. We don't like bull fighting but it's interesting to know the history.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Plaza de toros de la Real Maestranza de Caballer de Sevilla (Plaza de Toros, Wiki)

Torre del Oro or The Tower of Gold.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Torre del Oro (Torre del Oro, Wiki)

The river Guadalquivir, the river at Cordoba had the same name and it flows out in the Atlantic ocean.

Canos de Carmona, part of an old Roman Aqueduct.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Canos de Carmona (Canos de Carmona, Wiki)

I think this is/was a fire station.

Old market place under renovation.

Christopher Columbus Monument in the Plaza Alfaro.

For a moment we was lost in this alleys on our way back from railway station to our friends.

Breakfast time.

Today the Cathedral is open and we go there to visit the tower.

Giralda Tower.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Giralda (Giralda Tower, Wiki)

There is no trap step in the tower but instead ramps, probably because they rode by horses up there.

To our surprise we meet a lot of blind people coming down from the tower, what did they see?

When we stood here the bell give us a big and heavy ringing tone, luckily us, just one.

We walk down to the Canal de Alfonso XII, part of the river Guadalquivir. There we found The Tower of Gold, close to here Christopher Columbus sail in after his visit in America and bring a lot of gold with him.

The river Canal de Alfonso XII, this day we took a river boat tour.

The Tower of Gold.

This could be the theatre Teatro Lope de Vega.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Lope de Vega Theatre (Seville) (Teatro Lope de Vega, Wiki)

Puente de Isabel II, Puente de Triana or Triana Bridge.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Puente de Isabel II (Puente de Isabel II, Wiki)

Most of the modern buildings you see along the river are built for the World Expo 1992 here at Seville.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Seville Expo 1992 (Seville world Expo 1992, Wiki)

Torre de Sevilla.

Junta de Andalucia.

Music Hall, Auditorio Rocio Jurado.

To the left an Arianne rocket, it sent Spain's first communication satellite to space, the arches is the Pabellon de Futuro.

Puento de la Barqueta.

Puente del Alamillo.

Another tower as a part of the old wall that protected Seville, not far from the Tower of Gold.

The entrance to our apartment.

We lived on floor three and four.

Next morning, on railway station and waiting for our train to Cadiz.