Below are some exterior and interior images
CATHEDRAL - EXTERIOR DAY IMAGES
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Visiting this Cathedral was one of the "must-do" items on my list for Seville. I read it is the 3rd largest Cathedral in Christiandom. (Purportedly St.Paul's in London, and St.Peter's Bascilica in Vatican city are larger).
There was originally a Muslim mosque on this site, with an adjoining mosque minaret, La Giralda. When Seville fell to the Christians in 1248, the mosque was initially used as a church. Then in the early 1400's it was deided to replace it with a large cathedral, and approximately 100 years later (in 1507) the cathedral was completed. The mosque's minaret, La Giralda, was kept, although it was modified at the top.
Below are some exterior and interior images
CATHEDRAL - EXTERIOR DAY IMAGES
This first night image (below) required that I stitch 4 images together, and frankly the porportions just don't look right to me. I need to take a look at my stitching software output, and perhaps try again, modifying the stitch boundaries.
An interesting piece of trivial about the Giralda is it has no stairs. Instead are 30+ ramps, built so that one could ride up to the top on horseback. The top section of the Giralda was purportedly modified by the Christians.
The view from the top of Giralda was very crowded, with many people pushing to get beside the wire-mess around the look-out locations at the top, all trying to get a favourable vantage position. Once I managed to squeeze my way to a good vantage position, all that I saw were the roof tops of Seville. Not so attractive. Although I did notice one Hotel had a small, but nice, swimming pool, visible only from the Giralda.
Inside the large cathedral were many different chapels and tombs. In particular, Christopher Columbus' Tomb is located inside the cathedral, all though there is some debate whether the bones inside are indeed his.
It was dark inside the cathedral, and neither a digital camera's flash, nor a and tripod, was not allowed. Hence I did not take many images, and of those that I did take, I was mostly not too happy with. Without a wide angle lens, and good lighting, I found it difficult to take a good image. Plus the interior was quite crowded with tour groups and individual tourists, and an unobstructed image was difficult to get.
