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Curiosities of the Seville Giralda.
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Spanish Spain - Seville
Giraldillo:
Weight, 2.000kg and 4 meters tall.
Belfry:
It consists of 25 bells of different ages.
The oldest is the clock bell, made in 1.400.
Height: The tower is 93 meters
high plus four more with the weather vane. The base goes 15 meters
below ground level and is made of Roman stone blocks.
El Patio de los Naranjos.
Together with the Giralda of Seville, it is the
only remains of the old main mosque of the city. It is where the
Moslems carried out ablutions as an act of purification. Orange
trees cover the whole courtyard joined by little canals for irrigation
on the brick pavement.
The walls surrounding it have handmade engravings
with more than 880 sentences from the Koran in Arabic.
In the middle of the courtyard there is a Visigothic
fountain where, according to legend Saint Hemenegildo was baptized.
On the sides there are galleries with pointed horseshoe arches
which enclose the Chapter Library and the Columbus Library as
well as the only chapel which remains from the old Mosque Cathedral,
that of the Virgin of Pomegranate.
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in Seville and visit cities such as
- Cordoba and the Mezquita (mosque)
- Granada and the Alhambra
- Trekking on the Ruta de los Pueblos Blancos (route
of the White Towns): Ronda and Grazalema
- San Fermines in Pamplona
- Weekend in Morocco.
- Get to know Madrid and the Prado Museum
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