La Catedral de Sevilla

As a part of our program, we were able to go on a tour of the Cathedral of Sevilla, which is the third largest cathedral in the world. It was amazing that it was originally build in the 16Th century. When the people decided to build the cathedral they said, "Let it be a church so beautiful and so great that those who see it built will think we were mad." I think they had it about right because they really had to be crazy to build a building this big back then. It really was to show off how prosperous Spain was at the time because they were bringing so much gold back from the new world. Any ship from the new world had to come through Sevilla because to access the rest of the country they had to take the river here. Also, I was able to see the burial site of Christopher Columbus. There had been some speculation as to where his remains were and there are 4 burials for him around the world, but they compared the DNA of his remains to those of his sons and verified that they are truly his remains. It was a very interesting tour, I loved it.