Seville's Noche en Blanco - a night of music, art and history
With so many activities to choose from on La Noche en Blanco here in Sevilla, it was hard to know which to pick. As I was meeting a friend who lives nearby, we decided to start out at the aljibe (water tank) in Plaza de la…
Busy autumn in Sevilla
Life in Seville - cultural life, that is - has definite seasons: January and February are both cold and dull, lit up only by Carnaval and the Dia de Andalucia puente (bank holiday). Then comes the holy trinity of Semana Santa, Feria and El Rocio, followed by months…
This Friday night, 26 October, Seville is holding a "Noche en Blanco", a night-time cultural festival.
It's a full evening programme of events being held throughout the city, embracing all disciplines: literature, music, art, sculpture, at over 30 locations.
Just to the north of the Setas…
Romería de Torrijos
Here are some photos of the Romería de Torrijos, which took place last Sunday. It's the fourth-largest in Andalucia, and takes place at a Hacienda, which dates from Arabic times.
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From time to time, I used to notice collections of food at the entrance to my local Carrefour supermarket. They would collect kilo bags of sugar, rice, lentils or other basic foodstuffs, to give to those less fortunate. Just another euro on your supermarket bill, all in a very good cause.
They…
To the beach?
To the mountains?
Or to a city?
Whatever you do, wherever you go, have a great long weekend!
The season is a-changing here in Andalucia: it's getting dark earlier, and the nights and early mornings are chilly now, though the days - the last few, at least - have been scorchingly hot 35; degrees or so.
In the field next to my house, they were picking the olives last week. It's only a small…
It's unlikely to have escaped your notice that Spain hasn't been getting the most positive coverage in the international press recently.
Many newspapers and other media outlets in the UK, the USA and elsewhere have been focussing, understandably, on the economic challenges faced by President…
Semana de la Arquitectura in Seville: Torre del Oro
Today is the first day of La Semana de la Arquitectura in Seville, an annual event which sees members of the public given tours of buildings around the city, by…
Every year, to celebrate International Architecture Day - the first Monday in October - certain Spanish cities have a week-long programme of guided tours by architects around important local buildings: historic and/or religious edifices, unusual offices, important new structures. In some cases,…