Seeing Seville by foot, Sevilla

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Favorite thing: Plaza Nueva, Plaza Triunfo, Plaza Pilatos, seems like every few meters we were ending up in a Plaza.....well we did visit the Patio de Banderas also, we were told that it was named after the actor of the same name.

Fondest memory: Found this link telling about Rey San Fernando III, whose statue is at Plaza Nueva:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_III_of_Castile

And here about Zurbaran whose statue is at Plaza Pilatos:
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15770a.htm

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Favorite thing: Walking the streets of old Sevilla you find a mixture of architectural styles that despite its seeming randomness and clashes, turns out to be very pleasing to the eye, or at least to our eyes it was. Everywhere you turn you have something new to see. This is what is lacking in many of our newer cities and towns, things have a sameness to them, here each house, building or establishment is an "individual", standing out from its neighbours.

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Favorite thing: The streets of Sevilla can be a confusing place, especially in the old sections of town. As you can see in these photos, some of the streets are labeled with conflicting names....YES both names were on the SAME street.

Favorite thing: Sevilla is the largest town in Southern Spain, the city of Carmen, Don Juan and Figaro. Its symbol the seville oranges can be seen all over the city and add colour to the warm vibrant city. Apart from wonderful architecture of the bullring the Cathedral with its landmark Giralda minaret its also a very green city with several parks andd gardens in the city centre to rest in.

Favorite thing: From 712 Seville is under authority of arabs and refers to Ishibilia. In 1030 Seville became the capital of the Arabian state. The palace and a huge mosque is under construction there. In 1248 after two-year-old siege Ferdinand III released city from the authority of arabs. He moved 24 thousand of castilians there.

Favorite thing: It is considered, that the first settlement at the territory of present Seville has arisen in the III-d century before Christmas. The name of the city is received from Phoenician "sefele" - "lowland". In the II-nd century before Christmas Romans established the seaport Ispalis. Fortifications of that time in the barri named Macarena are kept till now (do you remember a popular song about Macarena?).

Favorite thing: Visit bars in Alfafa street, there are several cosy places offering realy nice typical food...
And in this bar in the picture in the placa de Santa Maria la Blanca they also offer delisious tapas...

Fondest memory: The city surprising with it’s quantity of tapa-bars… Somehow I have an impression that you can find some tapa place on each corner, great!

Favorite thing: The city lovely for it’s labyrinths of streets. It’s impossible not to get lost in the center. I think all who come there get lost :) but there’s no need to worry, there is a way out :).
For me getting lost was something very natural. For me, the one who is not so much used to such an unusual beauty & all the time looking over, looking round, looking in, - it was hard to concentrate on the destination :) But… after several rounds through these marvelous narrow/sometimes extremely narrow streets/ after sudden returning to the point where you have started your ‘hunting’, you find yourself got used to that consistent feeling of being lost. And then you love that city of labyrinths so much!
What you need – is to turn on your intuition. Well. Anyhow, truth is that without a map my intuition did not work so well :)