Sunday January 27/ Monday January 28

Sunday I slept in and relaxed all morning and studied a little bit for the test on Friday. Nothing too notable.

Monday for class we went to Parque María Luisa and the Plaza de España. What a beautiful quarter of the city. The park has TONS and tons of green space and the Plaza de España is soooooo big, it’s hard to believe. No wonder it’s on tons of postcards. The plaza has little sort of “stations” in alphabetical order for every region in Spain, except Sevilla is #1, naturally. The plaza also has an enormous fountain in the center and a moat that goes all the way around it where you used to be able to rent a little boat and paddle around. Sadly, for the last ten years or so the moat hasn’t had any water in it. The Plaza de América is cool too, with more giant buildings and gardens. The whole perimeter of the park is full of pabellones (pavilions) from Spain, Portugal, their colonies and Latin American countries. The entire park and plazas were built for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929, which was basically intended to celebrate the Ibero-American culture. The whole thing was economically a giant flop and now the state government owns the buildings because Seville couldn’t pay for them.