Orientation Walk Seville

Orientation Walk Sevilla
number Stop Aprox History/info

walk
time
1 Hotel Casa Palacio don 13 mins Give out maps, explain route
Pedro to Seville Cathedral highlights, give overall city
history. Walk on the main road
past the setas. Turn left burger
king and down shopping street
2. Cathedral to Puerta Leon 3 mins Give some history of Cathedral,
Christoper Columbus significance,
tell story of his bones. water
stop. Walk down shopping street.
Also go to the secret square to
give cathedral history.
3. Puerta de Leon to Alcazar 3 mins Give brief history of Alcazar and
and la Tabacalera admire beauty. Then walk to the
Tabacalera and give history also.
If hot offer pax chance to go back
to old town or continue to plaza
Espana.
4. Alcazar to Plaza Espana 8 mins Give info & history about world
expo 1929. Allow some free time
for admiring/ toilet/water
5. Plaza Espana to Bolas ice 15 mins Explain all natural ingredients/
cream best ice cream. Stop and have an
ice cream
6. Bolas Ice cream to Bario 5 mins Give history of barrio Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz and visit to San (Jewish quarter, was largest in
Leandro convent Spain, driven out as they
wouldn’t convert to Christianity)
and visit San Leandro Monastery
to visit the nuns and try local
made sweets (story below)
7. Santa Cruz to Las Setas/ El 12/16 Give group choice to visit a tapas
Corte /ingles rooftop mins bar under las setas (built in 2001,
86 million euros, largest wooden
structure in world) (shady) or visit
the rooftop bar at el corte ingles
department store for a drink with
lovely views over Seville.
8. Walk back to hotel 5/11 Walk back to hotel to finish the
mins tour
History
Key facts
• Spain’s 4th largest city 800,000
• Hottest city in Spain (the furnace by locals) often over 40 degrees in
summer.
• Home to one of the cities most important festival. Ferriar de Seville
(horses and flamenco.
• Rollercoaster history, flourished twice over Muslim and Spanish empire.
History in the hotel
• Legend that the city was founded by the Greek demi god Hercules.
• Founded as a Roman port town (Hispalis) in the 7th century.
• Captured under the Islamic conquest in 711 and renamed Islibilliyah.
• Became an important centre of kingdom of Taifa in the early 11th century
(southern Spain and Portugal).
• In the 12th Century under rule by the Almoravids and the Almoliads and
extended the Alcazar to a palace from a fort.
• 1248 King Fernando 3rd Captured the city and incorporated it into Castille
and started to Christainse and took first steps to modern Spain.
• City flourished as a gateway to the Spanish empire as on trans Atlantic
trade route.
• One of the largest and most important cities in Western Europe in 16th
century. Christopher Columbus era.
• 1649 Plague killed half city and led to a decline.
• 17th Century, trade moved to Cadiz city declined further.
• 19th century saw industrial revolution and the 1929 ibero American expo
(plaza Espana)
• 1936 city fell to nationalists in Spanish Civil war.
• 1992 world expo fair saw regeneration to city and building projects.
• 2008 world financial crisis hit city again but now rebuilding itself up
again.
Seville Cathedral
• ”Let’s construct a church so large, future generations will think we are
mad!” legend has it, the city’s authorities quoted after an earthquake
that had ruined the previous structure.
• Worlds larges gothic cathedral and one of the worlds largest churches.
• Official name cathedral de santa maria la sede.
• Built between 1434 and 1517.
• Was previously the site of a mosque.
• Bell tower giralda, incorporates mosques original minaret.
• Holds important art work from Zurbaran, Murillo and Goya
• Said to hold Christopher Columbus bones, or does it?
Story of Colombus
The confusion has arisen because Columbus’ remains saw almost as much travel as the
explorer did during his lifetime. He died in the northern Spanish city of Valladolid in 1506,
after returning from his final expedition to the “New World”, only to be moved to a monastery
near Seville three years later. But in 1537, the newly opened cathedral of Santa Maria la
Menor in Santo Domingo – a territory founded by Columbus – was deemed a much grander
burial site, so the Genoese explorer’s remains embarked on their second journey, this time
to the Dominican Republic.
What was left of the revered navigator stayed in the cathedral at Santo Domingo until 1795,
when France took control of Hispaniola (the Caribbean island that is now split between the
Dominican Republic and Haiti) from Spain under the terms of a peace treaty. Not wanting
the French to take possession of Columbus’ remains as well, the Spanish had them
removed to Cuba, then part of Spain’s extensive global empire. Yet by the end of the 19th
century the Spanish Empire was a fading force and in 1898 the Spaniards renounced control
of Cuba – as well as handing over Puerto Rico and The Philippines to the United States – in
the Treaty of Paris. Columbus was moved back to Seville and buried in a forbidding tomb
inside the city’s gigantic cathedral, thus completing his fourth posthumous journey.
But the Dominican Republic claims, not without foundation, that Columbus’ remains never
made that final trip back to Spain. In 1877, workers in the Santo Domingo cathedral from
which the explorer had supposedly been removed over 80 years earlier discovered a
container of remains labelled “The illustrious and excellent man, Don Columbus, Admiral of
the Ocean Sea”. Ever since, the Dominicans have claimed that Spain transported the wrong
remains out of Santo Domingo in 1795 – a fact which, if true, means that someone else
entirely lies in the imposing tomb in Seville’s cathedral. So convinced are the Dominicans
that Columbus lies in their soil that in 1992 they opened a colossal (and, it has to be said,
rather ugly) cross-shaped monument for the explorer called the Columbus Lighthouse,
containing both a mausoleum and a museum.
Alcazar
• UNESCO world heritage site

• Originally a fort in 913 for governors of Cordoba, revamped many times over 11
centuries.
• Has featured in game of thrones.
• First englarged in 11th century and converted to a palace for the Abbadid rulers.
• The Christian king Fernando 3rd moved in 1248 when Seville captured and was used
by many monarchs as their palace, each one adding to the construction.
• Alfono x, Fernandos son replaced a lot of the palace withna gothic one.
Plaza Espana and the world expo fair 1929
• The Ibero American exposition of 1929 was a world fair held in Seville between 9th May
1929 and 21st kjune 1930
• countries in attendance of the exposition included: Portugal, the United States, Brazil,
Uruguay, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Chile, the Republic of Colombia, Cuba, Venezuela, the
Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Panama, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and Ecuador
• Also each province in Spain was represented.
• The purpose of the exposition was to improve relations between Spain and the countries in
attendance, all of which have historical ties with Spain through colonization.
• 19 years in preparation.
• We will go ton the site at plaza Espana where you can still see a lot of the remeneants.
Santa Cruz and San Leandro Convent

T H E N U N S A T C O N V E N T O D E San Leandro in Seville, Spain, have sold just one item for more
than four centuries: yemas de San Leandro. These rich, creamy nuggets are a simple mixture of
sugar, lemon juice, and egg yolks.
The exact origin of yemas de Santa Teresa is not clear. Some believe they are Arabian. Others say that
nuns made them behind the monastery walls of Avila and that they became popular during the life of
Saint Theresa of Avila (Santa Teresa de Jesus), which explains the name.
The truth is probably closer to the latter story, since winemakers used egg whites to help purify wine,
and they did not have any use for the yolks. It was common for them to give all their leftover yolks to
nuns at the convents, who traditionally prepared pastries and cookies to sell.
What is certain is that yemas began to be produced in the mid-1800s by pastry shops within the walled
city of Avila, where they quickly became very popular. They were so popular, in fact, that
the pastelerias (pastry shops) could not keep up with the demand.
When you enter the foyer, you’ll notice a revolving tray embedded in a wooden door. Reference the
price list, then place the appropriate amount of money on the tray and rotate it behind the wall. A
few moments later, a box of wrapped yemas should appear in its place. You’ll have to put your faith
in San Leandro’s residents, but this shouldn’t prove too difficult. You’re dealing with nuns, after all.
Tabacalera
18th century stone building. Was one of the worlds first tobacco factories. Now part of Seville
university. The best example of industrial architecture in the city.
Spanish came accross tobacco plant in 1492 in the Americas and begging of the 16th century they set
up first tobacco factories, the first anywhere in Europe.

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History in the hotel

• UNESCO world heritage site

Plaza Espana and the world expo fair 1929

Santa Cruz and San Leandro Convent

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