Here are a few things that make Sevilla, Sevilla… I will greatly miss this amazing city…

Bullfighting – Definitely a Spanish experience! I am glad I got to say that I went to a bullfight… although, I don’t think I would go again.

Bullfight

Flamenco Dancing is one of my favorite parts of Sevilla! It has such a unique culture (comes from the gypsies with an arabic influence. It is very passionate and the music and environment is just great!

  

Flamenco Dancing

Semana Santa has such a significant effect on the culture in Sevilla. Even when it is not April, you will randomly find people practicing their pasos in the streets and there will be mini pasos for random occasions.

People practicing for Semana Santa

FERIA DE ABRIL

Sevilla is know for a special festival they have in April, called Feria de Abril. The entire city becomes full of people in flamenco clothes. There is music, dancing, and parting going on all night for an entire week. Los Remedios (my barrio) is where most of the the festivities take place. There are little casettas where you can eat, drink, and dance. Macarena and Fernando gave Lauren and I dance lessons so we could dance on our last night of Feria. Although we danced the Sevillano, we definitely danced like Americans. We ended our night with fireworks and chocolate dipped churros.

Learning the Sevillano dance and celebrating the last night of Feria with Lauren and Fernando

Food – What can I say? 99% of Sevillan life is focused around food (and 99% of that food probably consists of some form of pig or oil). I really learned to love Macarena’s soups, bocadillos, fried food, tortilla, gazpacho, and TAPAS (all drenched in oil of course!)!

Spanish Food Pyramid

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