Seville Cathedral

• Visit Seville's enormous and world-famous cathedral, Catedral de Santa María de la Sede, one of Europe's most beautiful Gothic religious buildings

• Climb the catheral's Giralda Tower for a panoramic view of the city's favor

• Home to the coffin of Christopher Columbus, with its sarcophagus and statue of Spanish knights guarding the discoverer

△ Seville Cathedral is a famous building in Seville and one of the "Three Great Churches of the World". The site of the cathedral was originally the Great Mosque of Seville, and was later converted into a Gothic-style Catholic church.

△ The main altar of the church is magnificently decorated with reliefs depicting 36 scenes from the birth, crucifixion and death of Jesus. It is also worth seeing the chapels decorated with famous religious paintings by Sevillian painters. Among them, Murillo's "The Veneration of St Anthony" is not to be missed. In the sacristy, there is a valuable collection of Goya's masterpieces, "St Husta and St Lufina".

△ The Giralda Tower, also one of the highlights of the Seville Cathedral, is a 98-metre-high mosque tower built during the Moorish rule, with a slightly steeper staircase to the top of the tower that offers a panoramic view of the city of Seville.