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Seville is the artistic, cultural, and financial capital of southern
Spain.
It is the capital of Andalucia.
Moorish influence is architectonically most evident - Andalucia
was occupied by Moors for about 800 years.
The fertility of this land and its favorised climate with mild
winters and about 3,000 hours of sun per year encouraged the Phoenicians
and Carthaginians to settle here. Later came the Romans. Two of
their emperors, Trajan and Hadrian, were born here.
Seville was the home of famous and infamous figures of history,
the legendary "Don Juan" started from here to conquer
the hearts of women across all Europe, while Columbus started from
a port close to Seville to discover a new world. Prosper Merimée's
"Carmen", who couldn't make her decision between the officer
Don José and the bullfighter Escamillo - the consequences
you can watch still today in opera houses - was a worker in Seville's
old tobacco factory. By the way, this factory serves today as a
university.
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