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Seville , an special city where roman, visigodos , arabs and almohades
lived.Its narrow streets, its forgotten monuments. Discover the
enchantment of this city with its orange blossom fragance where you can
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At
the primitive time the territory of this province was inhabited by
túrdulos and turdetarios.This last one had a high culture and possesed
very old writings and poems. It was colonized by Phoenicians and
Carttaginian.In the days of the invasions of the Barbarians, it was
occupied by the vandals and then by visigods.Once the Kingdom of the
Godos was derrocated arabs occupied the Valley of the Guadalquivir and
found a sky and climate that regarded their mother country .
When
the Califato crumbled, the sevillian Muslim Kingdomwas constituted one
of the most powerful Taifas states.The reconquest of the Betics
Territories was carried our during the reign of the king Fernando III
el Santo.From this moment seville is repopulated with people from
Castilla . In the days of the discovery of America.Seville was the port
that connected the metropolis with the new continent and it became a
mercantile emporiun .Since then is one of the richest provinces of
Spain , and its capital one of the most active an important cities.
Seville is a beatiful region , surrounded by fardens like Parque de Maria Luisa and the Paseo de Catalina de Ribera
Among its monumental building we could point up:
• The Cathedral of gothic style
• The Giralda of arab construction of the times of the Califato
• The Archiepiscopal Palace
• The Lonja
• The Consistorial houses
• The Palace reconstructed in century XIV by Pedro I of Castile
• House of Pilatos
• Tower of gold next to the Guadalquivir river
• Plaza de España
• Barrio de Santa Cruz
• Italica ruins of the Roman city