A walk through El Arenal and across to Triana

Seville is just a nice place to wander through. El Arenal is squeezed between the main sights and the river.

 Plaza del Cabildo is a well-hidden square, but a gem when you find it. And as you can see, not many do.

Below is El Postigo, an arts and crafts market. i am not a great souvenir hunter, so it held nothing of interest to me.

 Seville has a very grand 18th century bull-ring. I only saw the exterior.

The Hospital de la Caridad was pleasant break in my walk. Lovely courtyards, sorry patios are I think the technical term in Spain.

The chapel is splendid if a little over-crammed with religious works. Some rather typically macabre.

 An exhibition of religious embroidery only made me think of the wasted hours to produce such intricate but rather tasteless works.,

 The place still in part is used for its original purpose of housing the infirm.

Across the river one gets to Triana, Less touristy but full of restaurants and bars. And of course churches. This is Santa Ana

 This is Capillita el Carmen, a chapel built as recently as the 1920s

 This district is renowned for its ceramics. And Ceramica Santa Ana below is just crammed with tourist pottery.

 Walking up the river you get to the science and technology park, and some startlingly modern constructions.

 But this area also contains the sprawling semi-ruined Monastery of Santa Maria de las Cuevas, part religious relic, part relic of the industrial revolution as it also houses huge pottery kilns as the site was taken over a ceramics factory in the 19th century. Both have now given over to a modern art gallery.

 Its only partly a modern art gallery as it also houses old religious relics. And they have decided to mingle them. These bits of bobs of old statuary are mixed with abstract paintings but according to the blurb they have in common the ability to elevate the senses.

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 No honest, this is an artwork. I wasn't just careless with my rucksack.