Sevilla High School - Taurus Yearbook (Sevilla, Spain)

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Sevilla Sevilla in its grandeur, its Roman, Moor- ish, and Spanish architecture which all add up to give it, alone above all cities, a taint of delight. Sevilla amidst the rolling hills and wheat fields of the region which bears its name, Sevilla! The center of the joy and happiness that many the World over think is so characteristic of this one province of Spain called Andalucia. Sevilla has existed for many centuries and through many empires. It was first used by the Phoenicians and once their great em- pire began to crumble, it was inhabited by the great Roman Empire. The Romans did much for the architecture of Sevilla, as can be seen in the Pillars of Hercules, al- ledged place of an ancient Roman church, and the Wall, built in 250 B.C. when Plaza de Alameda fPillars of Herculesj

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1967 , V 1 Qjiiffiffe WM TAURU Sevilla Junior-Senior High School Volume VIII Sevilla, Spain Q 'ki A x4 Editor ............. ........... T om Law I ,- Business Manager .... .......,...,. C hery Ray in Q A . Section Editors .... ....... K athy de Kanter i NX Sharon Turley Sue Kaizer H' Advisor 8: Photographer ........ Mr. John F. Orolin

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outlying towns were being established. Such a town was Italica, at first built for the tired and wounded Roman sol- diers back from the Carthaginian Wars. There was also Carmona, which mainly served as a graveyard because it was high and out of reach of the raging Gudalquivir, which has formed the back- bone of Sevilla's existence from the Phoenician's time to modern day. The Roman Empire was almost completely shattered by the Visigoths, who stayed in pain for some time until the Moors, during one of their religious wars in 712, drove them out. The Moors, of all the conquerors, left behind the most of any of them which can be seen today, since the people after them used their great works of art instead of destroying them. Some of the more predominant are the Alcazar, the Sultan's palace, the Giralcla, first constructed by the Moors as a minaret for their mosque and later changed by the Christians into a bell tower for their great cathedralg and the characteristic small street, which every one considers a symbol of Spain but cont. The wall, which at one time surrounded Sevilla, was built in 250 B.C. The Giralda One time minaret for the mosque which was located on the site of the present cathedral