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As we prepare to leave the city of Seville to move to Jerez de la Frontera for a few weeks, I found a few good images that I had neglected to publish in earlier blog posts. Whether through oversight or lost in the shuffle, I include them now.
Above, during the Semana Santa week of religious celebration, a random penitent (Nazareno) walks along the bicycle path across from Seville University.
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Another penitent walks across a busy boulevard pedestrian crossing. No more nor less eye-catching that any other person. It is uncanny how commonplace such an uncommon sight has become.
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At the Plaza de España, a couple enjoys a leisurely row along the moat.
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The Plaza de España, built in 1928 for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929, is a structure of such grandeur and scale that we visited many times - and each time, the light and shadows and angles brought great visual photographic pleasure. A remarkable vision of the architects of that time.
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This subterranean restaurant in the Barrio Santa Cruz looked like a wonderfully inviting place to have dinner, alas, we never made it......perhaps next time? A wonderful cool, Moorish feeling.
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One of the many hundreds of men (thousands?) whose job it was to unstack and set up the wooden folding chairs along the procession route for Semana Santa.
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A penitent walks along Avenida de la Constituctión enroute to his procession starting point. He'll be out walking for the next twelve hours or so - perhaps barefooted in the cold night.
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And none of the penitents wear shoes like these. Sevillianos do love their shoes - shoe stores are seemingly on every corner, and, men and women alike seem to relish seeing and be seen in exciting and interesting footwear.
Goodbye Seville! A wonderful city of light, and music, and dance, and faith, and kindly, friendly people.
Adios. !
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