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Patio De Los Leones!! Fun facts: 1. There are 12 lions holding up the fountain. 2. Each lion is unique. They all look different. 3. There is poetry written on the bowl of the fountain by Ibn Zamrak.

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A little kitten eyeing the fish in the pond at La Alhambra. The kitten later resorted to drinking the water out of the little gutter.

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La Alhambra! Another place we spoke about in art history! I was stunned by the absolute beauty of the palace and how well it has been preserved.

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The Gates of Wine at La Alhambra!

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Mosque of Cordoba that was turned into the Cathedral of Cordoba. It was very exciting to have talked about this mosque in art history and then see it for real a few weeks later.

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Fun fact: 20% of Christopher Columbus' bones are in the Cathedral of Sevilla

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Fun fact: 20% of Christopher Columbus' bones are in the Cathedral of Sevilla.

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Some tiles I thought were very pretty and interesting in the Alcázar of Sevilla.

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Alcázar of Sevilla! A very beautiful castle with sunken gardens and ponds. Fun fact: some parts of Game of Thrones was filmed there!

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Views from La Giralda

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La Giralda!!! I was excited to see this in Sevilla because we talked about it in art history. We climbed all the way up to the top and looked at the views of Sevilla from the tower

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Fake mountain day with the other people from Mount Holyoke in my program!!!

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My family came to town! We walked over to Puente Romano and checked out the views of the cathedral and the bridge. It was fun to explore the city with them in a different way than I have before.

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The actual views of the Alcazar! We climbed something like 151 stairs all the way to the top of the tower. It was pretty fun to just relax at the top with friends. The stairs were sooooo narrow and pretty hard to pass people on which was pretty scary at times. The whole trip was pretty fun and nice to see another nearby town.

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Views of the Alcazar which was pretty cool to look at. We decided to climb up the tower of the Alcazar (see next blog post).

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Griffin saw this archway and window in the Alcazar. He decided to do a quick photoshoot. So here is me being a terrible model with Kyle.

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Took a quick day trip to Segovia! There wasn't too much to do but the aqueduct was pretty cool. It was my first train trip so that was an interesting experience. The Segovia train station is kind of in the middle of nowhere so you have to take a bus or a taxi to get to the actual town.