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View of Seville from the Giralda Tower:not clear enough for the article, IMHO Wetman 17:23, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] trams

I'm from Seville and the last time we saw a tram there was in the sixties. There are no trams in Seville.

That's embarassing. What about a light rail? I think I put it because I saw it at List of light-rail transit systems. If you are sure, correct the page, and add, add information :) -- Error

I noticed the trams are being built now (saw them with my own eyes). I may add this back into the article. Hiberniantears 19:50, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

They are similar to the new Brussels trams, but at the moment there is just going to be a single line, the Metrocentro. The expected "release date" is April-May --Asterion^talk 20:47, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Moorish Legacy

I'm not sure the following claim is accurate: "The architecture of the older parts of the city still reflects 800 years of Moorish control of the city."

Certainly the architecture of the city does reflect Muslim influence, but Muslim control of the city was not 800 years but closer to 550. Muslim control started in 711 at the earliest, and ended sometime around 1248 in Seville, if I recall correctly.

Craig Schamp 14:29, Aug 3, 2004 (UTC)

I changed it to read "reflects the centuries of Moorish control". The history section could use some expansion with more precise dates. -- Infrogmation 15:47, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Seville in fiction

Some of the recent additions to this are just films that happen to have used Seville for some location shooting. I don't think they are worth listing in this article (although an article on that subject would be welcome). I'm inclined to remove them from the article, but thought I'd give others a chance to remark first. -- Jmabel|Talk 19:39, Oct 11, 2004 (UTC)

• Even more so, I suspect, the mention of Dan Brown's Digital Fortress. While my knowledge of writers is not by any means universal, I suspect this is not important enough to merit the mention. -- Jmabel | Talk 18:10, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)

• I agree. Does it add to our sense of what Seville is, looks like or means? Does mention of the book enrich the article Seville?--Wetman 20:48, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
• I removed this: what's the connection to Seville?:"Seville appears in John Woo's Mission: Impossible II, but it's tremendously altered. The ambience in the film is South American, and the strange celebration seen in the street is nowhere to be seen in Seville--it's purely an invention for the movie."
• I actually watched that movie in Seville. I think the laughing could be heard three screens to each side. I find amusing how can someone spend over $5 million in a script with such bad research. I would not consider it South American either. Basically, it is the scriptwriter's idea of "Spain": a bit of Semana Santa, mix and matched with plenty of other misconceptions on the Valencia Fallas, a Cordoba Patio and some sort of Alhambra-like building, surrounded by pot-holed roads not seen since the sixties. A joke nearly as bad Dan Brown's description of Seville as a third world country scenario. It would be funny if it wasn't so sad... Asterion 03:13, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A link

• [1], linked from the article as "History and Culture of Seville" strikes me as terribly written and not notably informative. And it's commercial. I'd be happy to see it removed, but figured I wouldn't do so unilaterally. - Jmabel | Talk 02:08, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] 2005 statistics?

Perhaps someone should vet the anonymously added statistics for 2005. --Wetman 06:13, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

I,ve checked and the numbers are correct (www.ine.es) though strictly speaking they are census office estimates (2005 is not a census year). I'll change the wording. If you were querying them because they look too high remember that southern Spain is attracting unprecedented numbers of immigrants at the moment. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jameswilson (talk • contribs) 03:55, 29 January 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Numismaticnotice

The bot WatchlistBot keeps adding {{Numismaticnotice}} to this page. I think it's because the article is in the Ancient mints category. So, which course of action do we prefer:

1. Do nothing. Is being tagged into Wikipedia:WikiProject 20:10, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sevilla

This article needs more work, it doesn't look good. -- ICE77 84.222.102.136 21:35, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cathedral construcion

You should add that the catholic architects DID NOT built the cathedrals on the former site of the city's mosques what they did was take advantage of the superior muslim architecture and change some stuff to make it catholic,something not bright and unethical.190.0.137.189 19:30, 30 September 2006 (UTC)Gonzalo Puig

With all due respect, what you are saying may be true for Cordoba Cathedral, the old Mezquita, but not really for Seville's, as the only real remmant is the Patio de los Naranjos, the former Mosque inner ablution yard. The rest of the Cathedral was completely buil from scratch, with the obvious exception of the Giralda, of course. In any case, that sort of language use would go against Wikipedia:Neutral Point of View policy. Regards, Asterion^talk 19:42, 30 September 2006 (UTC)