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The Giralda (Spanish: La Giralda [la xiˈɾalda]) is the bell tower of Seville Cathedral in Seville, Spain. [1] It was built as the minaret for the Great Mosque of Seville in al-Andalus, during the reign of the Almohad dynasty, with a Renaissance-style belfry added by the Catholics after the expulsion of the Muslims from the area.
The Giralda is the bell tower of the Cathedral of Seville. Its height is 105 m (343 ft) and its square base is 7.0 m (23 ft) above sea level and 13 m (44 ft) long per side. The Giralda is the former minaret of the mosque that stood on the site under Muslim rule, and was built to resemble the minaret of the Koutoubia Mosque in Marrakech, Morocco.
Avenida de la Constitución, one of the most important streets in the city.. The Casco Antiguo (Spanish: Ancient Shell) is the old quarter of Seville, in the centre of the city on the east bank of the Guadalquivir river.
Seville has an area of 141 km 2 (54 sq mi), according to the National Topographic Map (Mapa Topográfico Nacional) series from the Instituto Geográfico Nacional – Centro Nacional de Información Geográfica, the country's civilian survey organisation (pages 984, 985 and 1002). The city is situated in the fertile valley of the River Guadalquivir.
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Map of the neighbourhoods of the Casco Antiguo. It has twelve neighbourhoods. Of these, El Arenal on the riverfront was the port of Seville until the Guadalquivir silted up in the 17th century, [2] while the neighbouring Santa Cruz neighbourhood was a Jewish quarter until the Spanish Inquisition.
The Seville Cathedral had suffered much damage during earthquakes over the centuries, and there was a popular belief at the time that intercession to the sister saints Justa and Rufina saved the Giralda, the cathedral's bell-tower, which was formerly a mosque minaret, during the 1504 earthquake. The sisters are depicted holding a model of the ...
The Guadalquivir River had been gradually silting in, which was worsened by the effects of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake [90] felt in the buildings of the city, damaging the Giralda and killing nine people. Main façade of the Royal Tobacco Factory. The Royal Tobacco Factory (Real Fábrica de Tabacos) is an 18th-century stone building. Since the ...