Seville, Córdoba, and Granada : a cultural history
Spain's southern city of Seville basks in romantic myths and legends, evoking the scent of jasmine and orange blossom. But there is an ascetic core to its sybaritic spirit. For all their fame as passionate performers, the poet Unamuno called Sevillanos ""finos y frios""--Refined and cool. OnceEurope's most cosmopolitan metropolis, bridging cultures of East and West and hub of a sea-borne empire, Seville was defined by Spain's great seventeenth-century playwright Lope de Vega as ""port and gateway to the Indies"". The city retains both the swagger of its seafaring heyday, and the sensualflavor
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