AROUND SEVILLE TOURS: JEREZ (XEREZ-SHERRY), 2014 EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF WINE
The tradition tells that it was theEnglish pirate Francis Drake who captured three thousand sherry boots that became very famous in the British court for the first time.
In the eighteenth century British businessmen settled in Jerez and found…
Seville summer tours. The morning and sunset
This leads us to recommend the tours, walks and visits to first thing in the morning. Before 11 in the morning it is a pleasure to walk around the neighborhood of Santa Cruz, few visitors, narrow and mysterious passages, reminding the Jewish…
SEVILLE NEWS: TOUR GUIDE, A PROFESSION KEY TO PROMOTE TOURISM IN OUR COUNTRY
(the following text is extracted and summarized from AGUITBA manifest, guide association of Buenos Aires)
Among other things, the tour guide offers:
A professional, caring and committed.
Objective, free of bias and propaganda.
Reliable…
Seville guide: Bullfighting in Seville 2013
Former Spanish show with roots in the Middle Ages, the bullfight was originally reserved for the nobility that was fighting on horseback. The bullrings were public squares, in Sevilla it was in Plaza de San Francisco.
In the eighteenth century…
SEVILLE CULTURAL TOURS . The symbol of the city NO&DO
It is a play on words that should be read NO MADEJA DO, because the central design is a skein of wool (madeja in Spanish). So read can be interpreted as: Seville didn't leave me (no me ha dejado). Seville has not abandoned me.
Indeed,…
Seville cultural guide: Springtime is here again
With a large river that runs through Seville, the Guadalquivir, the city sits in a fertile valley surrounded by orchards, olive groves and vineyards.
But the symbol of Seville is the orange tree, bitter orange trees.
The sour oranges are…