Seville
Seville welcomes with a scorching heat of +42 degrees Celsius in the shade. It is as hot here as in Arabia. And despite wearing shorts, a T-shirt, and having water misters at every step, that feeling returns: molten lead is poured under your clothes.
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It’s good that I have a short layover in Seville in the evening, and I will spend a few hours in the city.
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It’s bad that Seville seems to be an incredible city, and I will have to come here again. Along with Cordoba.
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A tree has grown through the awning. Either the awning is around 50 years old, or they deliberately cut a hole like that. Cool.
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The smells were the most memorable in Seville. It smelled of something completely unreal, baked-sweet. As if honey, fresh pastries, powdered sugar, and roses were mixed together and sprayed over the city from a hot air balloon.
The scent was incredibly delicate and captivating that, even despite the heat, I wanted to stay and breathe in that air all evening.
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The balconies of Seville are even more Arabesque than anywhere else. They say Cordoba, the former center of the Caliphate of the same name, is even more Arabic.
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And not only the balconies — half of the city seems to be in some Moorish style.
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The shop windows display souvenirs with Arab patterns.
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Even the main cathedral here is built on the site of a former 13th-century mosque. The entrance to it feels like pure Morocco.
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It seems that the cathedral is absolutely amazing.
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It’s a pity that there was so little time for Seville.
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