May 25, 1969 Seville, Spain

We left Torremolinos by train in the morning and arrived here at 1:30 p.m.  We walked from the train station to the Plaza de Espana and the Plaza de America.  The plazas were built for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929.  Again these are buildings that I well remember.

Berthold Werner [CC BY-SA 3.0], from Wikimedia Commons Plaza de Espana


By Komal.tujare [CC BY-SA 3.0 es], from Wikimedia Commons

By Manuel Muñoz Plá [CC BY-SA 3.0 es], from Wikimedia Commons

Since I am also blogging about Star Wars costumes, I can tell you that the building was used as a location for Episode II - Attack of the Clones.  It exists in the City of Theed on the planet of Naboo.

We walked all around the park and into the neighborhood of Santa Cruz. the main tourist area.  It is home to the Seville Cathedral, where we ran into the woman we met on the train to Malaga.  We went shopping with her and then went off to tour the cathedral on our own.  The cathedral took 200 years to build and was completed in the early 16th century.

By Ingo Mehling [CC BY-SA 4.0], from Wikimedia Commons
We walked up to the top of the Giralda Tower (steps again) at 345 feet.  I am pretty sure we walked through the Alcazar Palace, though my diary makes no mention of it. 

I did mention that Shar and I took a carriage ride.  We also agreed to speak English with two young Spaniards who kept pestering us.  With the day and the hour getting late, we boarded the train to go back to Madrid.

Today's expenses are lumped in with tomorrow's.