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Historical interest: Seville
    
The area in which Seville is located was once the city of Italica, where the first
Roman colony governed the whole of Spain for more than six centuries. During this
time, the Romans changed the face of the countryside and towns, building aqueducts
and long, straight roads to link the major towns.
However, the Muslim civilization had the most impact on the city. Their reign
lasted for nearly 800 years in Andalusia, from 711 until 1492, when the Catholic
monarchs defeated the Muslim kingdom of Granada. Some of the city's most magnificent
buildings stand as a legacy to this era.
After the discovery of the Americas, Seville became the hub of all trade and
traffic to the New World, and as a result became one of the richest cities in
Spain and Europe. For this reason, many aristocrats and painters flocked to
the city, making Seville one of the most cosmopolitan destinations in Europe.
Lavish Renaissance and Baroque buildings blossomed, and many stars of Spain's
artistic golden age, including Zubarán, Murillo and Juan de Valdés
Leal were based there.
Middle class optimism was express by Seville's first great international fair,
the Exposición Iberoamericana in 1929. Not much later, the civil war
brought everyone's hopes to nothing. The city fell quickly to the Nationalists
at the start of the war, despite resistance in working class 'barrios'.
Urban development in Franco's time did little for the look and feel of the
city, due to the demolition of numerous historic buildings. In 1982, things
looked up with the coming to power in Madrid of the PSOE, led by Sevillano Felipe
González.
Seville received a huge boost from the 1992 Expo World Fair, which was timed
to coincide with the 500th anniversary of the discovery of America. As well
as millions of visitors that year, Seville got eight new bridges across the
Río Guadalquivir, the new high-speed AVE rail link to Madrid, and thousands
of new hotel rooms.
Selection of hotels in this region:
Plaza Santa Lucia | | Hotel Vereda Real | | AC Cuidad de Sevilla | | Hotel Alcazar Sevilla | | Gran Hotel Lar | | Regina Hotel Seville | | Sevilla Center | | Fernando III Hotel | | Novotel Sevilla | | Silken Al Andalus Palace | | NH Viapol | | Hotel Hesperia Sevilla | | Hotel San Gil | | Hotel Vincci La Rabida | |
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