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The cathedral looks very much like many other cathedrals except for is unusually massive columns.  The exterior is unimpressive. [[red underline]] Giralda [[/red underline]] tower is characteristic for Sevilla.  Walked to the [[red underline]] Guadalquiver.  Barges with [[/red underline]] lateen sails, also some lugsails also 2 masted schooners (Portuguese?) and a [[strikethrough]] steam [[/strikethrough]] [[red underline]] large steam yacht.
 Sevilla looks rather dilapidated, [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] pro [[/strikethrough]] streets poorly kept. [[strikethrough]] In Europe [[/strikethrough]] As in most parts of Southern Europe including France and Italy [[red underline]] art and smells seem to be inseparable. [[/red underline]] Walked to Academia de Belles Artes.  There as in most other museums I had to [[red underline]] dodge the garlick

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breath of the keeper who wanted to explain to me while I was on his lee!
Paintings of Murillo, Raelas, Zurbaran etc. (See Baedeker) [[red underlined]] The old paintings do not convey as much admiration as the [[/red underline]] guide books bestow upon them.  From a modern standpoint I should call them mediocre. [[red underline]] Murillo is flat [[/red underline]] - much conventionality in all these matters and much [[red underline]] adulation to order. [[/red underline]] A room where [[red underline]] modern paintings [[/red underline]] are kept [[red underline]] is much better. [[/red underline]] Some really [[red underline]] fine pieces there. [[/red underline]]
More rain, more rain
In the [[red underline]] bombastic ornamentation [[/red underline]] of the public buildings I see some of the walls of old fortresses, provided with [[red underline]] plaster guns! 
Bull fights are in full swing [[/red underline]]