Two observations of Seville
Mar. 13th, 2007 07:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fivemack1. The fruit of the municipal orange trees found all over the city is unaccountably bitter, with something of a taste of marmalade. Perhaps they´re just not ripe ...
2. The Plaza de l´España, a semicircle a quarter-mile in diameter with a paved plaza, huge fountain, five towers, and six-foot by four-foot panels in painted tiles describing each of the 71 administrative districts of Spain, may be the most excessive administrative building ever. Somehow I´d feel a certain reluctance to take the advice of a Chamber of Commerce located on the third floor of a vast-vaulted pigeon-haunted pavilion covered with iridescent tiles, though I´d take its photo.
Seville is a little less self-servingly excessively filled with majestic buildings than Paris, but at least as fun to amble around - many more shady parks, though I suppose they´re compulsory given the climate.
2. The Plaza de l´España, a semicircle a quarter-mile in diameter with a paved plaza, huge fountain, five towers, and six-foot by four-foot panels in painted tiles describing each of the 71 administrative districts of Spain, may be the most excessive administrative building ever. Somehow I´d feel a certain reluctance to take the advice of a Chamber of Commerce located on the third floor of a vast-vaulted pigeon-haunted pavilion covered with iridescent tiles, though I´d take its photo.
Seville is a little less self-servingly excessively filled with majestic buildings than Paris, but at least as fun to amble around - many more shady parks, though I suppose they´re compulsory given the climate.
