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| Seville is a Spanish
city located to the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula, capital
of Andalusia and the province homonymous. Seville is the fourth
city of Spain and fourth metropolitan area by number of inhabitants. Account with 704,154 inhabitants and 1,317,098 in the metropolitan area, 1,813,908 in the total of the province (2005 data). It is the main artistic, cultural, financial, economic and social center of the south of Spain and one of most important of the south of Europe. It is in addition an important industrial center to new technologies and aeronautics (factory of Eads-house established in the airport). Seville and its population centers satellites do not constitute a true metropolitan area but an urban sprawl, because it lacks a coordination agency in which they are represented all the organisms with metropolitan competitions, such as the city councils. Although there are joint organs that are in charge of the metropolitan management of certain sectorial activities (waters, remainders, etc.), cannot therefore be spoken of metropolitan area in his stricter sense. Of doubtless tourist interest, thanks to numerous monuments, seats, gardens, churches, etc. It conserves the greater historical-artistic helmet of Europe. Of between their more famous monuments, the Giralda (old alminar of the greater mosque, today bell tower of the Cathedral) and the Tower of Gold both more are known. Of their districts, Triana, the Macarena, Santa Cruz, the Remedies, Heliópolis and Nervión is most famous. The Giralda, the Cathedral, the Palace, the File of Indians and its surroundings were declared Patrimony of the Humanity by UNESCO in 1987. To only 20 m.s on the level of the sea, in the heat of Fertile valley and Countryside of the Guadalquivir river, and to borders of this one, conform an urban sprawl that extends towards the Aljarafe, the Salt marshes, the National Park of Doñana, the North Mountain range and the South Mountain range. Buildings and monuments The Tree-lined avenue of Hercules: Is an important stroll of Seville, flanked by a side by the Guadalquivir river, another one of its sides gives the district of the Macarena and following some of its streets it can end up entering downtown, where the commerce of more public affluence is located. He dates from year 1574, the Count of Barajas is this date populated these lands that normally were marshy (by the frequent ascents of the river) with leafy trees and beautiful sources. One of its ends adorned them in 1578 with two columns removed from a Roman temple dedicated to Hercules who existed in the street Marbles and found during excavations to recover a house, on them two sculptures of Julio were placed Caesar (restaurador of Híspalis) and Hercules (founding of the city). In the other end the columns were hopeless with lions and shields representing Spain and Seville, placed these columns in second half of century XVIII. In 1876 the pedestals of the columns were protected with iron doors, of the public. In 1885 a marble source, well-known was placed next to the columns of the lions popularly like the one of the Duck, that was in century XVI in the Seat of San Francisco, behind the City council. In one of its lateral ones, in a recondite street is the one that was during one season the romantic writer Gustavo Adolph Bécquer. It was a concurred stroll until century XVIII, at the moment does not represent the grandiosidad of which would be in his first time, happening through diverse estadíos, by the nights usually one becomes a place of encounter with people who deal with their bodies, although she is being eradicated by the multiple changes that are being made in the zone due to new constructions and new laws discussed in the administrations. So it is so the famous swap-meet of Sundays no longer concentrates to the habitual traveling salesmen who during many years were made agree in this site of Seville, moving its location in another point of the city. There it is possible to be gone to the House of the Sirens, used building to carry out similar exhibitions and other samples. The General archives of Indians:  Are born in 1785 by desire of king Carlos III, with the objective to centralize in an only place the documentation referring to the Spanish colonies until then disperses in diverse archives: Simancas, Cadiz and Seville. The person in charge of the project was Jose de Gálvez and Gallardo, secretary of Indians, being in charge academic and the historian Juan Muñoz Baptist, greater cosmograph of Indians, their execution. The House Market of Merchants of Seville, constructed at time of Felipe II between 1584 and 1598, by Juan de Mijares, on planes of Juan of Herrera, was chosen like seat of the file, task that carries out until today. Two fundamental reasons frame the foundation of the General archives of Indians. On the one hand the lack of space in the General archives of Simancas, central archives of Spanish Corona. On the other hand, in line with the spirit of the Illustration, desire to write a history of the conquest and Spanish colonization that answer gave to the foreign writings that had treated the subject. In October of 1785 they begin to arrive at the File first documents. Since then and in different remittances they are gotten up the bottoms of the main institutions related to the Indians until turning to the file the main documentary deposit for the study of the Spanish administration the New World and the Philippines. At the moment for constituting the file, one takes year 1760 like historical dividing date between administrative and, so that the documents previous to the that date had to be sent to the File of Indians, being later documentation to this date to the service of the organisms that had produced documents. District of Santa Cruz: One of the most important districts of Seville. Located in downtown it is full of encaladas, satately houses, houses palaces, relatives, humble, patios filled with flowers and mainly, legend, duels, love affairs and memories, enchantment and beauty. It has its origin in the old Sevillian Judería, when King Fernando III conquers the city, concentrated in Seville the most important community runner bean, second after the one of Toledo. After the expulsion of the Jews in 1483, the district that occupied what is the District of Santa Cruz and San Bartholomew, fell in mincemeat, until at the beginning of century XIX they decided the reurbanización of the district, being its state present thanks to that initiative. It is a labyrinth formed by narrow streets and alleys like old juderías to get rid of the burning sun of the Sevillian summer, creating airflows fresh, which they finish in seats that seem remote of the center of the large city, famous are the Venerable Seat of the flood of tascas and terraces, take their name from the old Hospital for Venerable Priests, according to habladurías, in this seat could have been born Don Juan Tenorio; or the one that gives to name to the district the Seat of Santa Cruz who has in the center a cross of locksmith shop of century XVII constructed on the old parish to mudéjar of Santa Cruz; the Seat of Cruces, small and with three columns finished in crossings; the Seat of Doña Elvira, elegant with its tiles and oranges and a source and arriates with seats of bricks and tiles, formerly was used like Corral of Comedies, in this seat rumors that the impossible love was born of Don Juan Tenorio, mythical Doña Ines de Ulloa, that is at least what one of the tiles says that exist in the seat; the Seat of the Refiners exists a striking sculpture of the mythical conqueror of women; the Seat of Alfaro; the Seat of the Alliance, before well-known like Seat of the Dry Well, borders the wall; or the alley of the Water, parallel to the walls, and by which the water was engaged in towards the Real Palaces, and also was east lodging alley of the writer Washington Irving, as a plate done by Mariano Benlliure remembers. Leaving this alley we ran into with the precious Gardens of Murillo, another place with enchantment of Seville. Another one of the exits of the district is the alley of the Judería, that in the end locates in a great hall to us of Flags that is formed by houses that surrounds the Real Palace and its walls. About to the streets, is the one that has two wood crossings in a wall painted of red; the street of Santa Teresa, where is the House Museum of Murillo and a convent of Carmelite which it dates from century XVII founded by Santa de Ávila; and the street of Lope de Rueda, that has several mansions, other for that reason less nonbeautiful streets of smaller relevance but are not the street of the Gloria, the street Mosque, the street Life, the street Pepper, the street Justino de Neve, the Jamerdana street and the Susona street, before street of the Death. And one of most famous, the street Mateos Gago, from where one of the best views of the Giralda can be contemplated. Bordering to the district the Church of Santa Maria is the White of raised century XIV on one old synagogue, of style to mudéjar, where a picture of Murillo can be contemplated representing Santa Cena, also it is the Church of Santa Cruz, constructed between centuries XVII and XVIII where the rest of insigne rest painter before mentioned and other illustrious Sevillians. In the indicated seats and streets, they are possible to be found unexpectedly with some of typical the house-patio Sevillian, that conserve all the enchantment and tipismo of the district, filled with plants and flowers, that transmit calmness and coolness. Pilatos House: Maria Aprile accedes itself through a marble vestibule, made by Antonio in 1529 in Genoa, of Renaissance style and ended by a gothic watershed that seems to be she was brought of the palace that the promoters of the building had in Bornos, and giving the sensation of which she was traveled in the time when she enters the Main Patio, typical patio Andalusian, where a source for of center and has been keeping with fervor the goddess Shovels represented in two statues located in both angles and that everything is observed as well by twenty-four busts of Roman emperors (whose origin is the ruins of Italy) in addition to the one of Carlos I and the one of Cicerón that is distributed throughout the low galleries of the hall. From this hall it is arrived at two wonderful gardens that are luxury with caissoned ceilings, and a pavilion, both in the small garden, also are admirable the socles and the grates of plate style. The stairs by which it rises the superior floor are decorated with admirable tile socles and its ceiling is a wood cupola supported with tubes of mozárabes, made by Cristóbal Sanchez. In this plant paintings are conserved in their important rooms that date from centuries XVI to the XIX, of that emphasize "the Mercy" of Sebastián of the Piombo of 1539 (room of the Tower); in the room located in the left wing of the Tower its ceiling with the fresh airs can be observed made by the painter Francisco Pacheco between 1603 and 1604 that heightens the apotheosis of Hercules; and in the room that follows the one of the Tower there is a little work of the series of paintings of "Tauromaquia" of Francisco de Goya where the drag a bull is seen; also it conserves bodegón of Giusseppe Recco (in the dining room); as well as table which it represents the "painted Magdalena" in the century XVI (room that it precedes to the file), and in the file is three works of painter Lucas Jordán. As most of these centennial buildings also it has a chapel, of gothic style with decoration to mudéjar plagued of antiques and numerous manuscripts. Through all the building it is possible to be felt influenced by other styles by his yeserías and representative bas-relief of facts of the antiquity mixed with a precious tiling. An example of the Sevillian architecture of century XVI is considered like the best nobiliario building Andalusian constituting. At the present time it is permanent residence of the Dukes of Medinaceli. Cathedral of Seville:  Also well-known, although not as much, as Cathedral of Santa Maria of the Seat. July 8 of year 1401, when the finishing the town hall that decided to initiate the present building of the hispalense cathedral, one of the canons pronounced a phrase that summarizes the spirit of the Sevillians well: "Let's make a so and so great temple, that those that will see it finished, have to us by crazy people". The Giralda: it comprises of one of the most representative buildings of Seville, the cathedral, one of greatest of the world and true gothic jewel of and the baroque one. In its day it was the highest tower of the world with its 97.5 meters of height (it continues beinwithout a doubt one of the most famous images of the city) The tower, old to alminar of the mosque almohade of Seville, is constituted by several bodies differentiated although perfectly united showing a perfect example from the wealth of the existing crucible of cultures in the city. The Muslim body is oldest, was constructed in 1184 by order of Abu Yaqub Yusuf and for its construction, so and as it is possible to be appreciated in his base, the Roman rest of some buildings and ashlar masonries were used. As curiosity is possible to emphasize the fact that the Giralda does not have stairs, but 35 sufficiently wide inclines to allow that sultán raised by them mounted horse to see the beautiful stamp that is descried. As a result of an earthquake happened in 1365 the old original copper sphere was lost that crowned the tower, that was replaced by a simple one to alminar. Later in century XVI the body of bells was added. This body, in charge of Cordovan architect Hernán Ruiz, was ordered by the cathedral town hall with a closing in statue form that represents the Faith. Originally this era the name that had the figure of the Faith of more than 4 meters of height (7 with the pedestal) that crowns minarete of the cathedral of Seville and was installed in 1568. The name of Giralda comes from the turns that took place in the figure with the wind changes, because it does the times of vane. With the passage of time, that name happened to denominate to own minarete, knowing the figure like the Giraldillo. Walls of Seville: In the days of Julio Caesar, approximately between 65 and 68 yeras BC, when he was cuestor of the city, to these walls and their towers were constructed, replacing the old fence done with trunks and existing mud from the Carthaginian time. During the empire of Augusto they were extended and perfected due to the growth of the city. The Arabs added more to the defense of the city widening it, and fortified that extension walling it under the dominion of sultán Alí Ibn Yusuf, that extended the dead ground by close in almost twice its old surface. Almorávides, that was conscious of the advance obtained on the Christian kingdoms of the north of Spain were dedicated to reinforce their defenses, constructing and fortifying the walls. The walls practically complete the sections were arrived century XIX, as a result of the 1868 revolution, was decided to demolish great part of the same ones, only having left from the Macarena to the door of Cordova and the sector of the Palace. At these Seville times it was a closed city, perhaps the best one walled of Europe. The made layout is conceived to favor the defensive technique of I flank, the construction technique was with tapial of mortar, lime, sand and pebbles, the brick in the vaults and the ornamentales strips of the towers was only used. The access to the city was made mainly reason why it was known by the shutters and the doors, that had their leaned access, according to it is observed in the one of Cordova, and being based on documents, they lacked decoration unlike which they are seen in the Magreb. They were distinguished in real, or public, and prevailed. Finishing century XV, during the empire of Carlos I, public or the real ones they are modified making them agree in the first place with the main streets, and later widening them to facilitate the transit of vehicles that already was very common in the time. This form to build in union to the constructions extramurals, gives the pattern to follow in the later years for the growth of the city. Seat of Spain:  It forms one of the most spectacular spaces of the regionalistic architecture, was ordered to architect Aníbal González (who also was architect director of the event), for the Latin American Exhibition of year 1929 (inaugurated by His Majesty the King Alfonso XIII), got to work in its construction thousand men at the same time. Its total surface is of 50000 square meters, of which 19000 they are built and the 31000 rest are free space, the channel occupies 515 meters in length. The work began in 1914, finishing it in 1928 the architect Vicente Traver after the resignation of Aníbal González like architect director in 1926. Proxima by the public square of the Valiant Cid is located within the Park of Maria Luisa, being its entrance more, just before this Tobacco monument and the old Factory. The entrance is free and it is closed to the 22 hours. It has semicircular form (200 meters of diameter) that symbolizes the hug of Spain and its old colonies and watches towards the river like way to follow towards America. It is decorated with in seen brick, marble and ceramics giving him a Renaissance and baroque touch in its towers. It was the most expensive work of the exhibition and the only element other people's to her is the central source, also builds of Vicente Traver, very questioned because it broke the rotundidad of emptiness of the seat. The channel that contains is crossed by 4 bridges that represent the 4 old kingdoms of Spain. In the walls we found a series of banks and ornamentos of tiles that form allusive spaces to the 48 Spanish provinces (they are placed in alphabetical order); in them maps of the provinces imagine, mosaics on historical facts and shields of each capital of province. Local celebrations Without a doubt some, the main celebration of Seville is the Easter, in which 59 brotherhoods procesionan by their streets, leaving from its temple to the Official Race, that begin in Bell and finalize when leaving the Cathedral, where is made penance station. A third of the population participates in the brotherhoods like brothers of light, costaleros or members of a band. Also the Fair of April is very remarkable. |
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