{"id":6352,"date":"2026-04-27T05:48:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T09:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/?p=6352"},"modified":"2026-04-27T06:53:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T10:53:59","slug":"oh-seville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/2026\/04\/27\/oh-seville\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh Seville!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We left our hotel in Cadiz Saturday morning and took the 10:50 a.m. train to Seville. The weather is nice\u2026not too hot so we walked to our hotel from the train station. The city was bustling as it\u2019s the last day of a week-long spring festival. The surprise for us was that we\u2019d forgotten just how beautiful this city is &#8211; especially on a perfect spring day\u2026Larry\u2019s favorite tree, the jacaranda is in full bloom.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6353\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6353\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6353 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5215-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5215-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5215-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5215-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5215-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5215-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5215-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6353\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spring Time in Seville<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The monuments around town look spectacular against a bright blue sky.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6354\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6354 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5222-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5222-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5222-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5222-113x150.jpeg 113w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5222-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5222-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5222-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plaza del Triunfo &#8211; Seville<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6355\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6355\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6355\" src=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5219-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5219-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5219-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5219-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5219-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5219-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5219-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cathedral of Seville<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And in the early evening, people, many elegantly dressed, are streaming into the bullring for the Festival Bullfight.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6356\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6356\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6356\" src=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5218-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5218-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5218-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5218-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5218-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5218-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5218-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seville Bullring<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nighttime scenes around the city are just as spectacular.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6357\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6357\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6357\" src=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5227-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5227-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5227-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5227-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5227-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5227-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5227-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6357\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evening at the Alcazar, Seville, Spain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6358\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6358\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6358\" src=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5229-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5229-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5229-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5229-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5229-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5229-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5229-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cathedral at Night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A simple tapas dinner and lots of walking around a lovely city makes us happy travelers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6359\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6359\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6359\" src=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5223-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5223-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5223-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5223-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5223-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5223-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_5223-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Dish of Spanish Olives<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s Monday morning and the streets are still bustling &#8211; not only is Seville beautiful\u2026it\u2019s popular!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We left our hotel in Cadiz Saturday morning and took the 10:50 a.m. train to Seville. The weather is nice\u2026not too hot so we walked to our hotel from the train station. The city was bustling as it\u2019s the last day of a week-long spring festival. The surprise for us was that we\u2019d forgotten just &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/2026\/04\/27\/oh-seville\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oh Seville!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe-travels-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6352"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6366,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6352\/revisions\/6366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.woodring.us\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}