Did a Wikiloc circular walk of Sevilla, which took about five plus hours. The one digression was the time spent in Maria Luisa Park, the highlight of the entire excursion.
The park is lush:
Some trees have ginormous roots:
Of course, a first rate park has to have a pond with ducks:
And swans:
and other fowl:
Some statuary of swooning maidens:
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And a big old lion to guard them all!
In the afternoon, I headed to the Palace of Fine Arts. The building itself and the grounds are gorgeous, but the 14 rooms of religious art were a bit of overload. I was, however, surprised to find Susanna again!
In case you never got to it, here is a link to the text https://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/apo/sus001.htm
Funny, I never pictured him quite that way! That story you can find in Genesis 39.
Then it was off to the Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions. I always appreciate being reminded of how much work goes into, or used to go into, making the things we use: bread, oil, wine, metal implements for cooking and farming and so many other tasks, baskets of various kinds and materials, pots, thread, cloth, clothing, lace, barrels, guitars, even castanets, dishes, and more!
For example, get a load of this apparatus used to grind grain:
Right now there is a guitarist playing in the lobby and church bells are ringing. It is all quite lovely!
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