Oh, Sevilla.
How you exhaust me! I’ve now become acquainted with your winding cobblestone streets, your beautiful people, higher temperatures, and incredible monuments. Although acquainted doesn’t necessarily mean I would admit to knowing you just yet. It was only four days ago that I managed to get lost on my way home from a day trip.
However, I do think we are getting along nicely.
I must say, you have so much beauty. Several hundreds years worth. In my time that I’ve been here, I have gotten to visit your cathedral and look out of the bell tower, your amazing plaza, your incredible palace (where they filmed Game of Thrones), and a bunch of places in between!
Pretty incredible, huh? They even filmed a portion of star wars here!
You have kept me so busy that I’ve barely had any time to blog about you. I can’t believe how quickly time has passed here. And yet, I have had the opportunity to do so much already. Even though I’ve done a lot, I know that it still won’t be everything I wish to do. Therefore, Sevilla, I must cope with the knowledge that I may never truly get to know you as much as I had hoped.
What I have learned though is that you are, at times, like any other city. You have graffiti across some walls and monuments, and quite a few homeless people begging for money on the streets. There’s trash on the ground in some places, and I occasionally feel assaulted by smells that I would rather not smell. But at the same time, you are so different from anything I’ve ever known. History is rooted so deeply here. In the United States, you can’t see things like you do here. Our country simply isn’t old enough. Compared to you, my country is just an adolescent! Don’t take offense though, Sevilla, you age beautifully.
I have enjoyed you so much in such little time and will be sad when we part and go our separate ways in a few weeks. However, I will be happy to be home as well. You’re like a dream, Sevilla. And everybody knows that at some point, you must wake up from your dreams. I will appreciated your beauty while I’m still dreaming, although I know that I will do so even after I wake up.
Until then, Sevilla.
I really like this post and how you made it a “letter to Sevilla” . Many of the things you mention I agree with/have felt/experienced too! I love the beauty of Seville and it is so much more historic than what we experience in the US. YES, Seville does age beautifully.
Sevilla does keep us busy! So much to see and do and yes it is sad to think that we might not get to do all that we want to here! Agreed, Being in Seville does seem like a dream a lot of the time!
To add to your comment on the smells, also getting random drops of water on you when walking through the streets. This seems to happen frequently like water splattered on my leg or falls on my arm. I always hope its just water, coming from a terrace or window above.