Day 8 - May 11, 2009
Albufeira - Silves - Sevilla
18.06.2009
24 °C
Enroute to Sevilla, we convince Manuela to make our stop at the Cork museum located in the Moorish capital of Silves. The cork museum is located within an old fabrication building "the Fabrico do Ingles" and houses all these archaic pieces of cork making machines. The building had a very large outdoor interior courtyard with many orange trees. There were signs everywhere "don't eat the oranges"...not sure why. THe interesting part of cork history is that it's primary purpose was not just for wine bottles, but for all other kinds of products as a stopper. We were able to take a piece of cork bark with the the extruded holes (corks).
After the cork museum, most of the tour walked up the stairs to the outlook at the cathedral for a great view of the town before the sky opened up. I did not and saved myself from getting soaked.
We get into Sevilla in time to change and get ready to go to dinner and another show - this time Flamenco! http://http://www.elpatiosevillano.com/ Next to bull fighting, this is as spanish as you can get. The show took about 2 hours and there were various shapes and sizes of dancers and the energy level was INTENSE. Both men and women were dancing separately and together in traditional costumes. (The next day it became very apparant how many flamenco stores were in this city)
Posted by alitabrown 19:47 Archived in Spain
