Seville Part 3

 Hello, and welcome to the third and final part of my time in Seville. In the last post, I teased about showing Seville's most famous site. Its one that I've seen countless times on travel shows, travel blogs, friends photos, and it was an amazing place to visit. It contains the archaeological museum (featured in the last post) as well as the museum of popular arts & traditions. It is the Plaza Epanyol, in the Parque di Maria Luisa.

Originally built for a world fair (so already you know its going to be amazing) the park and plaza are Seville's focal point, and it is stunning. The parque is full of wildlife, pons, streams and pieces of art, and it feels like a millions miles away from the hustle and bustle of central Seville.


Plaza Espanyol is a beautiful crescent shaped building, full of intricate little details, like the beautiful tiling, the little bridges and the beautiful ceilings. There you can wander around, taking in the sights. Its also home to the Museum of Popular arts and traditions. Its free to enter (If you're an EU citizen) and while its interesting at times, there's not an awful lot to see there. It's worth a wander through if that sort of thing is you're cup of tea., was worth visiting solely for the interesting wine barrels in the basement and a fun blasphemy forbidden sign, which I would love to have on the wall at home in the kitchen!
The actual Plaza is lovely, I got there super early before it got too busy, as you can see even at 9am its quite busy! 






My final Day in Seville featured a visit to Italica, the old roman town situated not far from Seville, easily accessible by busses 170B or 177 from central Seville. It's remarkably well preserved, despite stones being taken over time to build Seville and the surrounding areas. Take caution though, it can be extremely hot there and there is very little shade, make sure you take water and have breaks where needed. There's an amazing preserved amphitheatre in the centre, as well as a beautifully preserved road system that runs across the settlement. Even more interesting, is that two of Romes greatest and best known rulers, Trajan & Hadrian, both came from Italica. Even the name suggests that this was an important place to be! There is also plenty of mosaics open to see dotted through the site, sometimes one after the other!

Inside the amphitheater, and then following the main road - 2,000 years on and good as new, yet potholes in modern roads form instantly? Proof the Romans are superior!


(Ignore the shadows of me and the information sign)

And that was the last thing I did in Seville! And with time left for only one more place to visit, I decided to head to Ronda, having heard all about one of the most dramatic bridges. And you know me, I love a dramatic bridge!

 

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