Dating back to the late thirteenth century, La Velá de Santa Ana is an annual street festival that takes place in Triana, honouring its patron saint. Food & drink, attractions, games, concerts… all in a very lively and festive atmosphere.
July 21 – 25th
Triana, Sevilla
My guest blogger post for Travel Intelligence…
many thanks to Ben Cooper for suggesting it!
This is something I have been looking for ever since I moved to Sevilla – a place to recycle used but still usable clothing. This one is located on the corner of Paseo Catalina de Ribera & Cano y Cueto, at the end of the Jardines de Murillo, next to the underground parking. If you know of any others then please let me know and I’ll add them to the map.
View clothing recycle bin in a larger map
Today the Cine de Verano at the Diputación de Sevilla (Puerta de la Carne) opens for another summer of watching films under the stars. It’s a fabulous venue inside a beautiful palace patio and there is even a bar at the back serving drinks and snacks. Most of the films are shown dubbed into Spanish (pet peeve of mine) but on Sundays there are subtitled original version films.
Avda Menendez Pelayo, 32
Showtime is 22.15 and tickets are 3 euros.
Here are the programmes:
First off I should say that I’m not actually interested in football, though I’ve occasionally watched important matches. The UEFA Cup final in 2003 comes to mind. And so last night, just before the Spain/Netherlands World Cup match began I suggested to Nog that we go out and find a bar showing the game on television. We first tried Cervecería Giralda across the street but it was packed out. Then I remembered that when I was giving a mini tapas tour the previous week I took my client to Casa Roman – there was a match that night too and all the staff were standing around like meerkats, eyes glued to the telly. So we went over there and, sure enough, same scene but not overly-crowded. In fact, we even managed to pull up a couple of chairs quite close to the “action” and grab a couple of beers. The match had begun.
As football matches go, it wasn’t a very exciting one. But it was fun to be in the midst of a small yet exuberant crowd who were very vocal about, well, everything. In fact, I was enjoying their reactions more than the match itself. But then as they went into extra time I started to get excited too. Could we win? Hell yeah, we HAD to win. I found myself perched on the edge of my chair and when Spain scored their winning goal I was up on my feet laughing and cheering and yelling with the rest of them. I’m so glad I went out to watch this with friends and neighbours – it really felt wonderful sharing all that excitement and happiness. On the way home we stopped by the fountain in front of the Cathedral as I was sure it was going to be full of crazy revellers – and I was right.
2010 FIFA World Cup Final
Spain 1 / Netherlands 0
