Sunday 20th April - in Seville for Easter Sunday

With all their processions & their prayers, the Sevillianas must have done something right with you know who up above as suddenly, the weather changed from unseasonably hot to a cooler rainy Sunday. Luckily the rain didn't really start until lunchtime when the last of the processions were over.
I decided to join a walking tour to Triana

(on the other side of the Guadalquivir River), home to the gypsies & the birth place of Flamenco.  So much history is attributed to this part of Seville that before any bridges were built to join Seville with Triana (less than 200 years ago), both cities were run separately.  Triana's past dates back to the time of the Inquisition in 1492 when those meeting their fate with death were dropped off by boat at the entrance of a tunnel only to find themselves in a building around the corner (which is now a market) from where there was no escape.  Even in more recent times (75 years ago) during the time of Franco, gypsies were relegated to a similar fate by being shipped off 200kms away.  Fortunately today, Triana is the home of creativity especially in the fields ceramics & gypsy Flamenco music & dance.