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Top 10 sights in Seville

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   Seville Cathedral

   The largest Gothic cathedral in the world, built between 1401 and 1528 on the footprint of the Almohad mosque, whose courtyard and minaret were kept. Columbus is buried in it, carried by four bronze figures — and the bones have been tested, more than once, to check.

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   Reales Alcázares

   A palace begun as a Muslim fortress in the tenth century and rebuilt for Pedro I in 1364 by craftsmen from Granada, so that a Christian king's palace is one of the finest Mudéjar buildings anywhere. It is still an official royal residence, and its gardens are the reason to allow extra time.

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   Giralda

   The bell tower of the cathedral, which was the minaret of the mosque, finished in 1198. Inside are ramps rather than stairs so that the muezzin could ride up on horseback; a Renaissance belfry was added on top in 1568 with a weathervane that gives the tower its name.

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   Italica

   A Roman city founded in 206 BC and the birthplace of two emperors, Trajan and Hadrian, who paid for its enlargement. Its street grid, mosaics and amphitheatre lie in open fields beside Santiponce, with almost none of the crowds of a Pompeii.

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   Torre del Oro

   A twelve-sided watchtower built by the Almohads in the 1220s to command the river. A chain ran from it to a matching tower on the far bank to close the port, and the gold in its name is either the tiles that once faced it or the bullion that later landed beside it.

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   Plaza de España

   A vast tiled semicircle built for the Ibero-American exposition of 1929, with a bench and painted tile map for every Spanish province. Lucas filmed Naboo in it and Lawrence of Arabia used it as Cairo, both times because it looks like somewhere else.

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   Plaza de toros de la Maestranza

   A bullring begun in 1749 and slightly oval rather than round, holding twelve thousand and belonging to a noble riding fraternity. The April feria season here is the most demanding in Spain; the practice itself is now contested in Spanish public life.

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   Casa de Pilatos

   A palace of the early 1500s combining Mudéjar tilework with the first Italian Renaissance detail in Seville. Its name comes from a supposed resemblance to Pilate's house in Jerusalem, measured out by a pilgrim owner, and the Medinaceli family still hold it.

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   Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla

   The main art museum, in a former convent, and after the Prado the strongest collection of Spanish painting in the country. Its subject is the Seville golden age — Murillo, Zurbarán and Valdés Leal, painted for the churches around it.

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    Palacio de San Telmo

    A building begun in 1682 as a college that trained orphaned boys as ship's navigators for the American fleets. It is now the seat of the Andalusian regional government, so the inside is closed and the baroque doorway is what you see.

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   Metropol Parasol

   A lattice of laminated timber over the Encarnación square, finished in 2011 and the largest wooden structure in the world. Digging the foundations turned up a Roman quarter, so the design was raised over an archaeological site and ran years late; a walkway runs along the top.

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   Palacio de las Dueñas

   A fifteenth-century palace belonging to the House of Alba, in which the poet Antonio Machado was born in 1875 when his family rented an apartment there. Its gardens and rooms opened to the public only in 2016.

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   Parque de María Luisa

   The city's main park, formed when a duchess gave part of her palace garden to Seville in 1893 and enlarged for the 1929 exposition. Its tiled benches, ponds and orange trees are the coolest place in the city in August, which is not saying nothing.

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   Iglesia del Divino Salvador

   The second largest church in Seville after the cathedral. It was rebuilt in baroque from the end of the seventeenth century on the site of the Friday mosque of the Islamic period, and the base of the old minaret and the ablution basin survive in its courtyard.

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   Santa Cruz

   The main tourist quarter of Seville and its medieval Jewish street. It is bounded by the Murillo gardens, the Alcázar and Calle Mateos Gago, and holds a concentration of old churches along with the cathedral and the Giralda.

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   Antiguo Monasterio de la Cartuja de Santa María de las Cuevas

   A Carthusian monastery where Columbus stayed and where his remains lay for thirty years before being shipped to Santo Domingo. It later became an English-owned porcelain factory, whose bottle kilns still stand in the cloister, and it now houses the Andalusian centre for contemporary art.

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   Amphitheatre of Italica

   An amphitheatre for about twenty-five thousand, built at Italica under Hadrian, who was born in the town — one of the largest in the whole empire, for a city that was not large. The arena floor and the animal pits below it are open.

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   Palacio de la Condesa de Lebrija

   A house-museum in central Seville, a sixteenth-century building remodelled between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. It holds Roman mosaics lifted from Itálica, Asian art and paintings by European masters, among Moorish arches and plateresque detail.

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   Birth of A New Man

   A monument by Zurab Tsereteli in Seville, generally known as Columbus's egg. Moscow gave it to the city to mark five hundred years since Columbus reached the Caribbean.

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    Isla Mágica

    A theme park on the site of the 1992 world exposition on the Cartuja island, themed on the sixteenth-century voyages that left from this river. Six areas and a water park; it is what Seville does with its children in July.

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