The Story of Seville

In 1023 Abu el Kásim Mohammed, then Cadi of Seville, raised a revolt against the Berber rulers of Andalusia. The rising was successful, and the town once more became a capital....

'To have seen real doñas with comb and mantle, real caballeros with cloak and cigar, real Spanish barbers lathering out of brass basins, and to have heard guitars upon the balco...

Seville is so renowned in the annals of the great Spanish sport of bull-fighting, that I propose to devote a chapter to a brief history and description of the 'science of taurom...

Seville the sunny, the gem of Andalusia, is a city in the midst of a vast garden. Within its ancient walls, the vine, the orange tree, the olive, and the rose flourish in all op...

'How reverend is the face of this tall pile, Whose ancient pillars rear their marble heads To bear aloft its arched and ponderous roof, By its own weight made steadfast and immo...

'The art of Spain was, at the outset, wholly borrowed, and from various sources: we see heterogeneous, borrowed elements assimilated sometimes in a greater or less degree, frequ...

'Among no other people did the spirit and character of the middle age, in its most beautiful and dignified form, so long continue and survive in manners, ways of thinking, intel...

The richest monument of Almohade might in Seville is the beautiful Alcázar, or 'Castle,' which stands at but a stone's-throw from the remains of the great mosque. It is a palace...

Most English visitors to Seville travel by way of Paris, Irún, the Spanish frontier town, and Madrid. By this route the interesting towns of Vittoria, Burgos, Valladolid and Seg...

'The different provinces of Spain differ from each other in their architecture, as in their history; some of the buildings are purely Moorish, others have a mixture of that styl...

In the south-western quarter of Seville, in the midst of a palm-shaded _plaza_, stands the Museo Provincial, a picturesque structure, whose history dates back to the thirteenth...

'In her own interior Spain had an arduous problem to solve--she had to overcome the old energetic resistance of a whole people--the tolerably numerous descendants of the former...

On the 15th of June, in the year 1599, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez was born in Seville. Eighteen years later affords the record of birth of Murillo. Contemporary, or ne...

The _palacios_ and fine _casas_ of Seville are numerous. Some of them retain a distinctly _Mudéjar_ design in their architecture, and all of them possess an Oriental atmosphere...

In the year 1171, Abu Yakub Yûsuf, the conquering Moor, began the building of a mighty _mezquita_, or mosque, in the captured city of Seville. The important work was given into...