The beautiful façade (Portada del Príncipe). |
Getting closer, you would notice how detail the decorations are. |
Inside the cathedral. The stuff on the left side of the picture is the big pipe organ. |
This is the front view of the organ. |
The beautifully decorated ceiling. |
Retablo Mayor, the altarpiece designed and created by the Flemish craftsman Pierre Dancart. |
And everywhere else is lavishly decorated as well. |
Of course there are many stained glasses, too. |
Another stained glass. |
The sarcophagus of (probably) the distinguished bishop. |
A work by Juan de Arfe y Villafañe, a Spanish engraver, goldsmith, artist, anatomist and author. |
There are so many other stuff, but they were just to many to remember. |
Many paintings as well. |
From here, we walked to the entrance to the Giralda Tower, going through many small rooms. |
The ceiling of each room is decorated differently. |
A silver workpiece. |
I am not familiar with Christian relics, but what is the meaning of this? Why is a girl standing on other girls' heads? |
This was kind of scary... Why the head??? |
Of course there are many beautiful relics as well. This is the golden crown decorated with gemstones (emerald?). |
These are also gold. |
And this one, too. |
I believe gold and silver were brought back to Spain from the "New World" during it's golden age. |
This is the entrance to Giralda Tower. |
Many steps to the top of the tower... I don't usually do a lot of exercises, so it was very tough for me... |
There are many windows on the way. I stopped at the windows several times to take a rest, pretending I was just enjoying the view. |
The roof of the cathedral. |
Finally we climbed up to the top. We saw many bells hanging. I am not sure if they are still in use now. |
The top of the tower is actually quite high and there is nothing to block the view from the tower. We enjoyed the beautiful view of the city of Sevilla. |
The Quinto Centenario Bridge over the Guadalquivir. |
We could see the bullring that we visited yesterday as well. |
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