Feria de Triana 2008

I spent my last night in Sevilla at the Feria de Triana….

Bailando sevillanas, picando tapitas, tomando tintos y cervezas y, lo más importante, saliendo con mis queridos amigos sevillanos….

Casa Anselma

The one and only, Anselma.

Anselma dancing sevillanas!

Más Sevillanas...

Vírgen del Rocío

Salve Rociera

Located in the heart of Triana, Casa Anselma is one of Sevilla’s gems for live flamenco/sevillana performances. Before we returned to the United States, Bea and I took a girls’ night out for tapitas and some Casa Anselma.

Of course, we made sure to stick around to hear the Salve Rociera at the end of the night. Each night, this song is performed, and Anselma turns the lights off so that all that you can see is an illuminated Virgen del Rocío. As a way of paying respect to the tradition, no one in the bar utters so much as a sound.

Here are a few youtube videos from Casa Anselma:

Anselma singing “Pienso en ti”
Sevillanas
Salve Rociera

Río Guadalquivir

Since I knew that our days were numbered, I made sure to take a nice walk along the Río Guadalquivir to take some pictures of the sunset. There are some things that you never grow tired of…