Villson camp site in Dos Hermanas is the nearest to the city of Seville. We drove to the outer ring road of Seville to get there, it was a tricky 1/2 hour, First we entered on the E1 motorway then in quick secession 5 exits on to 5 other fast duel carriageways with very little time to change lanes, sometimes leaving on the left other times leaving on the right. Mr, or should I say Mrs Garmin has never worked harder, she fired instructions continually, I was so pleased I had chosen a female voice, a mans voice would never have kept up! Using coordinates the Garmin once again, was perfect.
The site is large but the pitches are small, that aside the facilities are good providing a new toilet and shower block. There is a swimming pool, although closed as we are out of season, no concessions on price however ,22 Euros a night, guess they have the monopoly. If you want Seville you stay at this site. You take a bus, 10 minutes walk away. We gave it a try but Mary hiccupped as we walked over a foot bridge, below us was a 2x3 lane motorway and a slip road that curled off the motorway and passed under the foot bridge. A total of 5 lanes of traffic passing “which way and when” was two much to cope with. The view was alarming as you looked down into a traffic nightmare so we gave it a miss. The next day I drove to the bus stop and parked. The ride into the city cost 1.35 Euros each, good value for a 1/2 hr drive. The drive into the city is very interesting, as you pass many beautiful villa type buildings some of which are enormous, buildings representing the Orient, Gothic, Roman, Mexican, South American and Moorish all line the main boulevard into the city. They were built representing nations who chose Seville as a major trading centre. Here are just a few pictures.
The bus dropped us off at tourist centre where we bought tickets for another bus which took us on a tour of beautiful Seville .
Here are some of the many images we saw on the tour of Seville.
The main attraction must be the Cathedral that boosts the largest internal volume in the world, so recorded in the Guinness Book of Records. Having completed the tour we decided to walk there. On the way we had a late lunch/early dinner at one of the cafes near the University, we have found in the past, restaurants near to universities are very good value, this one was no exception The young man photographed above helped to translate the menu.
Housed in the Cathedral is the tomb of Christopher Columbus, he was born in Seville, it seemed fitting he should be buried here, but apparently his remains were moved and now lay elsewhere.
It rained the day we arrived at Seville and it rained the day we left, the day in-between was good, lucky we did our site seeing then.
