Adventures in Spain: Day 9
Purita - De vuelta al Origen for breakfast! The food on this trip makes me so happy! It has shown the city and its people off in so many ways!
We started off the day's tours at the Museo Palacio De La Condesa De Lebrija. Okay y’all this might be the wildest house we walked into! It was a completely private house until a few years ago. and the Condesa. This house was FILLED with mosaics and Itallica (the site we visited a few days ago) Yep the wealthy used to go get things from the site to fill there houses with. I felt wrong walking on most of the floors in this place
So many artifacts from so many different cultures were in this house....
We had been told by tour guide at other houses that this house was like going to the Seville history museum if it were a private residence and I under stood what they had meant completely upon visiting. And yes.... Even the heads off of statues were apparently fair game to this collector!
Next up we visited Torre del Oro. The Torre del Oro is a dodecagonal military watchtower in Seville, southern Spain. It was erected by the Almohad Caliphate in order to control access to Seville via the Guadalquivir river. Constructed in the first third of the 13th century, the tower served as a prison during the Middle Ages.
We grabbed some coffee and a snack and then headed to our last visit of the day the Hospital De Los Venerables. The Hospital de los Venerables of Seville, Spain, is a baroque 17th-century building which served as a residence for priests. It currently houses the Velázquez Center, dedicated to the famous painter Diego Velázquez.
This was the biggest surprise place we visited. it was just immaculate and the visit was overwhelmingly peaceful. For being so close to the Cathedral it was nearly empty of tourist.
It started raining so I wondered the city and did our laundry at the laundry matt before we grabbed dinner at one of the restaurant below our hotel!
Thoughts? Reach out at: mythoughtsofindigo@gmail.com