23 Oct 2008

Seville pt. 5 Contemporary arts and Roman Italica


The Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporano built in the old Cartuja de Santa Maria de las Cuevas Monastery. This place was a monastery, then bought buy an englishman and turned into a ceramics factory and then became the Contemporary Arts museum.








Massive Ombu, an evergreen herb in the entrance of the museum. In latin Phytolacca dioica, a fire and animal resistant plant from Argentina. They may reach 30 metres diameter at the trunk, this one is close.


We day tripped to the roman town of Italica. The home of emporers Trajan and Hadrian this town is complete with a 25,000 seat amphitheatre, public and private buildings.




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