Torre del Oro, or Golden Tower. It is a building with twelve angles at the bottom and six at the top. It was built on the banks of the Guadalquivir RiverRiver and it was built during the time of the Alomhads in the middle of the twelfth century as part of the fortification of the city. Only in the eighteenth century it was extended with a lantern at the top. How did the tower get its name? The Moors called it the "Golden Tower" from the golden tiles called azulejos. Spaniards believe that its origins are to be found in the times when gold was unloaded from ships here. Today it houses the Maritime Museum.

 

The Cathedral of the Virgin Mary in Seville, a Gothic cathedral, was built in Seville on the site of a mosque built by the Muslim Almohad dynasty. The cathedral is the largest and one of the most magnificent Gothic churches in the world. It has an area of 500000 meters. It is 132 meters long, 83 meters wide and has about 30 side chapels. The cathedral has two separate organ cases, they are symmetrical and located in the middle of the "choir" part of the building and facing each other on both sides of the central nave. They are made of solid wood and carved in the Baroque style.

Giralda - the bell tower of the Cathedral of Seville in Spanish Andalusia. Construction of the Giralda began in 1184 and took 12 years. The tower originally served as the minaret of the Almohad Mosque, which was built in 1198 during the reign of Caliph Jacob al-Mansur. During the construction of the Giralda, elements from the demolition of the structure in the ancient Roman city of Italica were used. There are no stairs inside the Giralda. A ramp is used to get to the top, which is wide enough for the muezzin to ascend the minaret on horseback and deliver the adhan (call to prayer) from the top. The tower, in addition to its sacred functions, also served as an observatory. In 1248, King Ferdinand III the Holy captured Seville and transformed the Muslim mosque into a Catholic church. At the same time, the tower also had to change its purpose. The copper sphere that originally topped the tower collapsed in an earthquake in 1365. Christians replaced it with a cross and a bell. In the 16th century, the Giralda was rebuilt under the supervision of architect Hernán Ruiz, adding a four-story bell tower and balconies. A bronze statue symbolizing the Faith was placed on top in 1568. This statue is 4 m high. It was originally called the Giralda ("weathervane") because it is set on a weathervane and rotates with the change of wind direction. With time, however, the name Giralda was taken over by the tower itself, and the statue started to be called Giraldillo.