This past weekend I went to Cordoba and Sevilla with my CIEE group from Alcala, this was one of the two trips that we take as a group for the semester and was included in our program costs. We left Friday morning by bus and drove to Cordoba first. We arrived in Cordoba early afternoon and walked around the city a little bit getting a tour from one of our professors. This professor was our tour guide for the entire trip and it was insane how much information he knew about everything…It was literally like we bought a tour guide for everything and then some. Anyways we saw a little bit of the city and then went inside the mezquita which means mosque. It was really intricate and detailed and there was a lot of cool information that we learned about the building such as all the pillars inside (there were a ton) were all recycled from other roman buildings during the construction and for that reason every pillar was different. We spent a little while in there and then afterwards we had free time to wander around the city for an hour or two.
We then left Cordoba and went to Sevilla, arriving in Sevilla around dinner time…we checked into the hotel and then went out to dinner and wandered around the city for the rest of the night. I went out with one of the guys in my group (Eric) and we met up with two of his friends from back home and they showed us around a little bit. The night life in Sevilla was actually really neat and I felt like there were a lot of Spanish beauties there (which makes me a little angry I didn’t study there haha).
The next day we had another tour of Sevilla from our professor, we saw the cathedral of Sevilla – again very impressive – we also saw real alcazar which was an old palace of some sort with some really neat gardens and fountains. The tour around the center of the city and those two things took up pretty much all of our day and the rest of the time we had free to explore the city. We tried to go out to flamenco show and dinner – because Sevilla is one of the flamenco capitals of Spain – but the cheaper ones that we wanted to go to we either could not find, didn’t make it in time, or it was closed for the night, so we didn’t do that. Instead we just went out for a dinner and went to a bar to watch the Spain world cup qualifying match.
The next day we went to el parque de Maria Luisa, which was really big and had a lot of cool statues and gardens and other buildings. After that we went to la plaza de España, which is some law or government building, I can’t remember what exactly though. When we were done there we went back to the hotel prepared ourselves lunch and headed back to Alcala.
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