European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 12, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Fair Days ahead smiling Spanish women dressed in their finest for Seville s april fair flirt with passers by. This year the annual festivities begin a week after the opening of expo 92, the world s fair on an Island across from the old  stronghold of Spanish spirit and treasures from the past by Jim Derheim staff photographer this year is a big one for Spain. Major events will showcase three of its cities Madrid is the 1992 european cultural capital Barcelona is site of the summer olympics and Seville welcomes the world for expo 92. Of the three Seville is the least known. But those who have visited the City that inspired the operas the Barber of Seville Don Juan and Carmen know it has More than enough culture to go around and an abundance of sights for shutterbugs. Seville Spain s fourth largest City is a fitting site for the world s fair that is serving As the Centrepiece of the 500th anniversary commemoration of Columbus voyage to the new world. Much of the planning for Columbus trip in 1492 took place in Seville and when he set off he left from a port not far to the South. Plus it is claimed a claim challenged by several places in the Amer As that the Admiral s Bones lie in Seville Cathedral. Seville s fantastic gothic Cathedral is probably the City s Best known sight. It is the world s third largest Cathedral Only Rome s St. Peter s and London s St. Paul s Are More massive. Step into the cavernous the Seville Cathedral the world s third largest and the Giralda Tower a former minaret Are two of the City s Best known sights. Interior and look up Way Way up a toward the gloomy ceiling and you get the feeling you re in a subterranean Cavern and not a Man made shrine built in the 1 5th Century. Five Naves and to chapels make up the Cathedral constructed in 1401 on the ruins of a moslem mosque. Visitors can wander around the quiet Interior dimly lit by candles and Light that tillers Down from above and Admire the Small chapels magnificent choir stalls and Golden altar considered the most valuable in Spain. In one of the Side Chambers is an ornate 1 9th-e entry Monument re port it Day bedding the re Mains of Columbus. Standing guard it give a the Many spire. Get to the e Cathedral is the t22-foot Giralda Tajwer a former minaret and now the Symbol of so Ville. Its spiralling ramp is wide enough for a horse and rider to ascend which is exactly what a former ruler get use Ville it did when he wan Teci to Admire his property. Nearby is the , the Palace e constructed by  s monarchs pm the site of a me get Rish Structure. It is built in the moorish style and its hand painted tiles carved ceilings and plaster filigree Are matched Only by those of the Alhambra in Granada. Tourists can visit the room where Queen Isabella we Leeome a Columbus Home from his be Coriel voyage Tel the new world. So Ville has easy a e Ess Tei these a via the wide Guadalquivir River a position  made it a leading ree Ipie it Elf Trade with the newly disc Ove red Amerie a. It nit Mut d t it a in age a i Marth 12, 1992 stripes Magazine j