Wednesday, 15 September 2010

Aye Papi!

Yesterday, my roommate and I visited the well known Cathedral and Giralda known as the Home of God and built by the hands of lunatics. It is also officially the biggest cathedral in the world. HISTORY TIME! After Seville fell to the Christians in 1248, the mosque was used as a church until 1401. Signs of decaying meant that it was time to remodel the church. Therefore, they wanted to build the church soooo grandiose that people would think that they were lunatics. The cathedral is 126m long and 83m wide.The cathedral had like 30 different chapel areas so you could have like a bunch of masses going on at the same time. So unnecessary.
View from the Giralda tower of the Cathedral


Each square represents something and all the way at the top is the crucifix. this is on the altar.
View of the city
Supposedly the bones of Christopher Columbus are in there. 
 VY IS ABSURD: Lesson- Don't think Vy is going to actually be serious and reverent going through a Cathedral. Anything that came out starting with "I know what they used this for..." usually was ridiculous.
And no matter where we are, it will always be amusing (more to him) to try and have a statue cup his nuts in a picture...even if it's in a room full of Jesus art and the statue is of some saint.

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