Tourism in Seville

Sevilla, or Seville, capital of the province of Andalusia and Seville in southern Spain, located on the banks of the Guadalquivir River. A population in 2007 of about 699.145 inhabitants, making it the fourth largest city in Spain after Madrid in the population, Barcelona and Valencia. An area of ​​141.31 km ² collected Urban is also the fourth largest in the country with 1,450,214 inhabitants (INE, 2007), which represents 77.5% of the total 1,871,399 population of the province.

Famous days of Islamic rule of Spain and the second was Abdel-Rahman had ordered the construction of naval fleet and a house for the arms industry in the mid-ninth century AD of the most famous rulers adopted and named Ibn Abbad (Homs) ratio for the descent of the Jund al-Sham. Giralda beacon of landmarks that were built by order of Sultan Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur Almohad. He was of the population, for example, Ibrahim ibn Sahl famous Bdiyoana.

Location and population

Sevilla is located on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, with an average height of 7 meters (23 feet) above sea level. The population of the city of Sevilla known as sevillanos (feminine form: sevillanas) or "hispalenses".

The population of the city of Sevilla was 699 145 from 2007 (estimate INE), the population of the metropolitan area (urban area in addition to the towns) 1,450,214 from 2007 (estimate INE), ranking as the fourth-largest metropolitan area of Spain. Increases the number of residents of the city suburbs for 1.5 million people

Date

Sevilla history stretches more than two thousand years. The impact of the passage of various people in the city's growth with a distinctive character. Sevilla Roman city was known in the early behalf Hasballes (hispalis). Give Aatileka italica Roman city near the city of Sevilla impression about how it was Hasballes in later Roman period. Roman remains in Sevilla include remnants of the channel. After successive victories of the Visigoths and Vandals in the province of Hispania in the fifth and sixth centuries, Muslims conquered the city in 712 and became an important center for Muslims in Andalusia

City

Sevilla Cathedral constructed from 1401-1519 after recovery on the former site of a mosque in the city. Sevilla Cathedral and among the largest of all medieval Gothic cathedrals, in terms of both area and volume. Inside is the longest in Spain, which is lavishly decorated, with a large amount of the cathedral Alzhb.aadt use some columns and elements of the mosque, and, most famously, the Giralda, originally a minaret, turned into a bell tower. It topped the statue, known locally as el giraldillo, representing Alaaman.dakhl tower was built with ramps instead of stairs, to allow the muezzin and others to rise to the top. Rise "Algiralda" towering above the rooftops of Sevilla, and is considered the most important landmarks of the city, was built 1184 years Kmizna to Sevilla grand mosque with its minaret, which turned to the cathedral. The height of Algiralda 97.5 meters, has been built by Summit animated wind direction in the sixteenth century, and since then has become Algiralda know this name relative to the statue at the top