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Discover Andalucía
At a Glance
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Seville
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) Home to all things Andalucian.
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Cádiz province
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) The coastal city of Cádiz and hill-towns in the
north.
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Málaga province
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) Includes Málaga and Ronda.
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Córdoba
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) The Mezquita and a fine Jewish quarter.
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Granada province
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) Granada city, the Sierra Nevada and Las
Alpujarras.
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Jaén & Almería provinces
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) Away from well-worn
tourist trails with Baeza and Cabo de Gata.
SEVILLE & AROUND
Seville
POP 703,000
Some cities have beauty. Others have soul. A few have both. Seville falls into the
latter category: it's a feisty assortment of matadors and
cantaors
(flamenco sing-
ers), oranges and opera, gargantuan Gothic and magnificent Mudéjar. Though
there's solemnity here (hear the bitingly sad flamenco laments), there's also ex-
uberance (hit the riotous spring fair). But it's Seville's capriciousness that leaves the
heaviest impression. Come here in April and watch as haunting Semana Santa
(Holy Week) metamorphoses into the cacophony of La Feria and you'll wonder
whether Bizet's
Carmen
wasn't more real than imagined.
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