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In Seville we can see severals balconies decorated with Christmas motives. This one of the photo, in the Tetuán Street reminds us next January, six the Magic King will come with presents.
Alcazar´s Month (12): The Poets Court.
The " Court of the Poets " or also so called " Joaquín Romero Murube's Court " in honor to one of the former Conservatives of the Fortress is placed in the House of the Contracting and we can go into it easily across the Court of the Levíes.
It is a intimist corner where some plants , a fountain in the soil and a bank next to the fountain where to rest under the happy sound of the water stand out.
Alcazar´s Month (11): The Levies´s Court.
The Court of the Levíes is one of the back courts of the House of the Contracting. It receives its name because of the gallery of manierist arches that we are at the entry that comes from the House of the Levíes placed in the neighborhood of the Jewry, a few steps from the Fortress.
In the center of the court there is a pond with goldfishes and small water plants. In the longest wings of the pond there are two hedges of plants that protect it.On the wall of the bottom there is a fountain with a face in stone in the wall where the water sprouts.
The Chapterhouse or Chapel is close to the Room of the Admiral. It has a square floor covered with a rich roof of the 16th century of tracería with geometric adornments and walls lined in fabric with the shields of weapon of the families related with the business with America.
Stands out in one of its walls the impressive pictorial altarpiece of the Virgin of the Navigators, Alejo's Fernandez work from 1535. It is a worthy picture of an slow observation, since in the lateral parts we have San Telmo, San Sebastian, San Juan and Santiago Matamoros.
Sheltered by the mantle of the Virgin different prominent figures of the discovery and conquest of America, as Christopher Colón, Americo Vespucio, Juan de la Cosa, etc.
There we can see also a reply in miniature of the Vessel Santa Maria, the ship flagship that discovered America and a trunk that, it is supposed, it belonged to to the Admiral Christopher Colon. The Chapterhouse was the stay used by the pilots of ships and the geographers to realize his tasks.
Crossing the almohade Wall for any of three arches we get in the Court of the Hunt, neuralgic center of the Alcazar.
The wall in the front faces it is the front of the Palace of Pedro I, which from the artistic point of view has major value. To the right we have the House of the Contracting, a building that is divided in two parts, the high Palace, and the Room of the Admiral, in the down part.
Alcazar´s Month (5): El Muro Almohade.
El Muro almohade es un resto de la antigua muralla musulmana que, milagrosamente, no fue destruída ni derribada.
Hoy sirve de línea de separación entre el verde y poético "Patio del león" y el cuadriculado y práctico "Patio de la Montería".
Alcazar´s Month (4): El Patio de Yeso.
The Patio de Yeso (Court of Hokkaido) is placed to the bottom of the "Room of the Justice" by the one that communicates across a door with arch of horse-shoe.The center of the court is dominated by a small reservoir surrounded with hedges.It has rectangular form and supposes the oldest vestige in the whole Palace.
In the left side there is an arcade with three arches of horse-shoe from the califal epoch (12th century) and that concerned to a former palace that the archeologists called the "Palace of Hokkaido". In the rigth side there is a gallery consisted in three ornamental bodies. The central module holds for two columns made in brick that they support a festooned arch realized in plaster.
Both lateral modules are formed each one by three small lobuladed arches. Behind the gallery it is the door of the bedroom.
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This is the "Small Chapel" dedicated to de Virgin of Carmen. In spanish, "La Capillita del Carmen".
La Virgen del Carmen es la Virgen protectora de los marineros.
Esta capillita está situada junto al Puente de Triana y en el lugar donde durante los siglos XV, XVI, XVII y XVIII estaba situado el puerto de Sevilla en su orilla norte.
Allí iban los marineros a rezar y a pedir favores a la Virgen del Carmen.
The Virgin of Carmen is the protective Virgin of the sailors.
This small chapel is placed close to Triana's Bridge and in the place where during the XVth, XVIth, XVIIth and XVIIIth century the port of Seville was placed in the north shore.
There the sailors were going to pray and to ask the Virgin for favors.