2 posts tagged guadalquivir

We have had a bit better weather since my last post, much warmer and sunny too - until today, so we´ve been able to enjoy. Half of the pleasure has been to sit outside, both at home at the terrass of the casa and out in the city too - sipping on our Sangria´s and eating delicious.

The first explorers, the ancient Phoenicians, found to their surprise that there was a lively commerce already going on in southern Spain. Around the modern Seville and the river Betis, now called the Guadalquivir, barges came and went upriver, where there were many towns.   The local people of