Seville

October 22
Friday was our last day in Spain, and I really wanted to make it to Seville. John agreed to drive the hour and a half to Seville but he wanted to leave a little later in the day. His brother, Terry, is stationed in Spain and flew in the day before, so John wanted to see where he worked and what all he did. Terry thought he could get John in so Friday morning John met up with Terry to check out is work. When John got back to the hotel he told me that he got Terry out of work for the day and he was going to join us in Seville.

We grabbed lunch on base then hit the road. The drive up there wasn’t too bad, but there also wasn’t that much to look at. Seville is inland and not on the coast so it was pretty much farm land the whole way up. Most of the farm land was covered in cotton and John and Terry didn’t understand what was going on. Neither of them understood the process behind farming cotton so I tried explaining it to them, but they do it a little different in Spain, so I will try and explain it more later with some pictures I have taken while I have been home.

The first thing we saw when we got out of the parking garage

Part of the church, it was so big I couldn't fit the whole thing in one picture
The Cathedral Church
This church is the 3rd largest Christian church in Europe behind St. Patricks Cathedral in London and St. Peters Basilica in Rome

Some of the details on the church

First walking into the church...It was so big inside

A cross plaque in the church

Not real sure but thought it looked cool

Some awesome stained glass!

The very detailed ceiling

I dont know whose it was, but it is someones grave

Some huge doors

More stained glass

The organ and this was only part of it

A fully silver display

The choir section

The high alter, made from gold

Christopher Columbus' Tomb

The ceiling of one of the rooms in the Cathedral, known as antecabildo

The ceiling of another room in the cathedral

All the gold and jewels inside the treasury room

View from one of the windows on the walk up the bell tower

View from the top of the bell tower (or as high as you could walk) also known as The Giralda Tower

The Seville Bullring

Part of the church from the top of the tower

The orange trees in the Plaza Naranjos (part of the chruch)

Bells

Another view of Seville

In the Plaza Naranjos

Oranges

The Giralda Tower from the Plaza Naranjos

Walking around Seville

Another side of the Cathedral

The castle in Downtown Seville also known as the Royal Palace/Alcazares

The Christopher Columbus Monument in the Murillo Gardens near The Alcazar Ramparts

The Isabel side of the boat on the Columbus Monument

Close up of the top of the Monument

We had a great time walking around Seville all afternoon, and headed back to Rota for dinner. We ate at a pretty good Mexican food restaurant, which I loved (I miss Mexican food so bad in Italy) then headed to the hotel, to get some sleep. We went to bed pretty early but we were also back up at 2:30 to get ready to leave.

Our flight left Seville at 7 in the morning and we were a 2 hour drive away from the airport. We ended up leaving Rota between 3 and 3:15 that morning and made it to the airport in plenty of time. We messed around the airport, pretty much sitting at our gate since nothing was open and waited for the flight. We made it back to Naples with out any problems and we even got our luggage. It was a great trip and I would love to go back in the summer to enjoy the great beaches!!