Spain: Sevilla

The beautiful Alcazar palace.
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Sevilla was our favorite city on the Europe leg.  It´s a positively gorgeous city in Andalucia, a region of Southern Spain.  Andalucia gave birth to tapas, sherry and the flamenco, so you know right away that these people know how to live life well!  Needless to say, we ate A LOT of tapas and drank a lot of Rioja (Spain´s most famous red - Rioja is the region).  We spent free time wandering the winding, skinny streets of Barrio Santa Cruz, and taking in the beautiful park and river.  But the majority of our time we devoted to Spanish classes at the awesome Babylon Idiomas school.  After about 11 days, we left with just enough of a taste of Andalucia to make us want to go back soon.