La Giralda

Completeing the tour of the Cathedral we climbed the tower of La Giralda. Interestingly this does not have steps or a lift (there weren't many elevators in 1568, when the tower was finished). It has a continuous incline that climbs, anti-clockwise, up the inside of the walls.

As you climb, windows shed light on the path and offer glimpses of the Cathdral or the city below. This window showed the orange grove "Patio de Naranjos" where the faithful would pause to wash their hands and feet in the shade of the oaranges before entering the church.

La Giralda is a bell tower so it is only right that the Gorse Fox shows a bell! It peeled whilst we were up there - but only briefly as it was a quarter to the hour. We made sure we had left before the full peel of bells on the hour.

A view looking north from La Giralda over Plaza de San Francisco. Gorse Fox strained to see the Golden Gate, but was disappointed. (However he had noticed the golden arches of a well known purveyor of fat burgers to the masses several blocks north!)

This was the view for La Giralda looking south over the Real Alcazar... a treat that would have to wait until tomorrow.