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2 Renowned People Born in Seville

• Roman emperors Trajan and Hadrian were born in Italica , near Hispalis
• Saint Isidore of Seville
• Baroque painters Velázquez and Murillo
• Romantic poet Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
• 20th century poets Vicente Aleixandre ( Nobel Laureate), Antonio Machado and Luis Cernuda
• actress Carmen Sevilla
• singer Isabel Pantoja

3 Sights

The city's great Cathedral was built from 1401 - 1519 after the Reconquista on the former site of the city's mosque. The interior is lavishly decorated, with a large quantity of gold evident. The Cathedral reused some columns and elements from the old mosque, and most famously the Giralda, originally a minaret, was converted into a bell tower. It is topped with a statue representing Faith. The Giralda is the city's most famous symbol.

The Alcazar is the city's old Moorish Palace; construction was begun in 1181. Additional construction continued for over 500 years.

The Parque Maria Luisa was built for the 1929 Exposición Ibero-Americana World's Fair, and now is landscaped with attractive monuments and museums.

4 Education

• University of Seville
• Pablo de Olavide University

5 Sports

Home town of two rival soccer teams Sevilla FC and Real Betis Balompié.

Seville hosted the 7th Athletics World Championships in 1999.

6 Motto

The motto of Seville is "NO8DO". The "8" is shaped like a wool hank, in Spanish madeja. This makes the motto, as a rebus read "NO madeja DO" which is a pun on "no me ha dejado" = "it did not abandon me". This refers to the city's support for king Alphonse X in the war with his son Don Sancho in the 13th century. This motto is seen throughout Seville, inscribed on manhole covers.

7 Seville in fiction

• Seville hosts the legend of Don Juan
• Seville is the primary setting of Bizet's opera Carmen, and also of Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville
• Beethoven's Fidelio is also placed there.
• Seville is the setting of the novel and film Nadie conoce a nadie , which incorporates the elaborate Sevillian processions during Holy Week.
• The Plaza de España in the Parque de María Luisa appears in George Lucas' .
• Seville appears in John Woo's , but it's tremendously altered. The ambience in the film is South American, and the strange celebration seen in the street is nowhere to be seen in Seville, it's purely an invention for the movie.

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