Qualla: Seville https://qualla.com/seville en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:05 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/e/s/seville-wp/toits-guadalquivir-ponts-sevil.jpg Qualla: Seville https://qualla.com/seville Seville: Introduction https://qualla.com/seville/ Photo credit Superchilum, CC BY-SA 3.0. Seville held a monopoly on trade with the Americas for over two centuries - every ship sailing to or from the New World passed through its Casa de Contratacion, every fortune made in gold and silver flowed through its counting houses. The city that Columbus departed from and returned to became the richest in Spain, perhaps in Europe, the gateway between old and new worlds. The wealth built the cathedral, expanded the Alcazar, financed the architecture that makes Seville a museum of Andalusian beauty. The trade shifted to Cadiz in 1717 when the Guadalquivir silted up; Seville's decline was gradual but real. Today the city holds 690,000 people, the fourth largest in Spain, a place that has learned to sell its past - the flamenco, the orange trees, the religious fervor of Semana Santa - to tourists who come seeking something more passionate than the rest of Europe offers.

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]]> Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/e/s/seville-wk/eyes-seville-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Seville: The Cathedral and the Giralda https://qualla.com/seville/ Photo credit Daniel Armesto, CC BY-SA 3.0 es. Seville Cathedral is the largest Gothic church in the world, built on the site of the Almohad mosque that the Christians conquered in 1248. The construction, which took over a century from 1401 to 1506, was meant to demonstrate that Seville could build on a scale that would seem ...

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]]> Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/e/s/seville-wk/eyes-seville-the-cathedral-and-the-giralda.mp3 0:06 2 full Seville: The Alcazar https://qualla.com/seville/ Photo credit Mihael Grmek, CC BY-SA 3.0. The Real Alcazar began as an Abbadid Muslim fortress in the 10th century, was expanded by the Almohads in the 12th, then rebuilt by the Christian King Pedro I in the 14th century using Moorish craftsmen who created a palace in Islamic style for a Christian ruler. The result is mu...

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]]> Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/e/s/seville-wk/eyes-seville-the-alcazar.mp3 0:06 3 full Seville: Semana Santa https://qualla.com/seville/ Photo credit Boaventuravinicius, CC BY-SA 4.0. Holy Week in Seville is Spain's most intense religious experience - brotherhood processions winding through narrow streets, floats bearing statues of Christ and the Virgin carried by teams of dozens, hooded penitents whose pointed capirotes disturb Americans unfamiliar with the t...

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]]> Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/e/s/seville-wk/eyes-seville-semana-santa.mp3 0:06 4 full Seville: Flamenco's Home https://qualla.com/seville/ Photo credit Gregory Zeier, CC BY-SA 3.0. Flamenco emerged in the barrios of Seville and the surrounding region - the Gypsy neighborhoods where Romani culture merged with Andalusian music to create something that sounds like nothing else. The cante jondo, the deep song, expresses duende - the spirit of heightened emotion...

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]]> Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/e/y/e/s/seville-wk/eyes-seville-flamencos-home.mp3 0:06 5 full Seville: The City of Light https://qualla.com/seville/ Photo credit Original uploader was BabyNuke at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. Seville is hot - summer temperatures regularly exceed 40 degrees Celsius, making the city one of the hottest in Europe. The response has been architectural: narrow streets that shade themselves, thick walls that store coolness, patios with fountains that provide refuge from the f...

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