Scribbler in Seville

Living in Spain's most romantic city

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Inside the Palacio de las Dueñas – home of a Seville icon

Torrejon – tower – in corner of main patio. Today a major monument in Seville opened to the public for the first time ever in its centuries-long history. The Casa de las Dueñas is the official residence of the Dukes of…

fionafloreswatsonMarch 18, 2016October 21, 2016 Architecture, Art, Culture and Customs, Fiestas, Flamenco, Garden, Royalty/aristocracy, Sevilla city

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A Merry Christmas in Seville, some gourmet goodies, and a sting in the tail

Seville at Christmas-time feels wonderfully festive, with people going about their business – whether local Sevillanos working, meeting friends, buying presents or visiting belens (nativity scenes), or visitors under the spell cast by an already magical city at its most…

fionafloreswatsonDecember 22, 2014December 22, 2014 Art, Culture and Customs, Family, Fiestas, Food, Markets, Sevilla city, wine

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Exploring the Sierra de Grazalema from a home-from-home in Benamahoma

You can see for miles from Puerta de las Palomas (1,639m), in the Sierra de Grazalema. Nearly nine years ago I went to a small pueblo blanco (white hilltop town) called Grazalema in Cadiz province on a chilly November weekend, to…

fionafloreswatsonJune 13, 2014June 17, 2014 Africa, Architecture, Art, Cadiz, Culture and Customs, Family, Fiestas, Food, Food and Drink, Garden, Holidays, Kids, Monuments, Outdoors, Pueblos, Religion, Restaurants

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My most popular posts of 2013, plus a mini-review

You lot seem to think I’m quite amusing. What am I, funny like a clown? En serio – my most popular new posts, published last year, are mostly silly ones. Well, not silly – highly intelligent, witty and astute, of course.…

fionafloreswatsonJanuary 10, 2014 Architecture, Art, Culture and Customs, Events, Family, Fashion, History, Humour, Kids, Language, Living in Andalucia, Museums, Religion, Sevilla city

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Celebrating Seville’s azulejo heritage: a sneak preview of Centro Ceramica Triana

Seville is known for many things – the old cliches of tapas, flamenco and bullfighting, orange trees and the Giralda, but also a ubiquitous feature of the city which you’ll see inside every house, on the walls of every patio,…