18 October 2026 Seville: The Jardin de los Delicias Festival

 

The Jardin de los Delicias is a recurring festival that moves all around Spain.  This year it was Madrid and Seville but it has been going on for almost a decade, since 2018.  It is located at the CAAC campus that also hosts a museum dedicated to contemporary art.  This campus has a very large exterior space suitable to hosting large events.  We drove over from the old town and parked in a new, very fancy parking lot.  The day was warm and we were dressed for the cool of the evening ao we would explore a bit, sit in the shade for a while and then explore some more.  there were only 21 seats in the VIP section and they were all filled.  We hovered over them for a half hour until some opened up and we snagged them.  Standing for the next 8 hours was not for us.  We had a bite and some drinks, met new people and talked to them.  Then the rains came and the covering we were under suddenly became the best spot in the entire venue.  It was wall to wall people as the rain was coming down sideways!  It blustered for a while and then rolled out and the blue sky came out again.  Sebastian would not start till 10 PM so we sat very comfortably and waited.

Odd shaped elevated items

Art along the walk to the festival

The entrance off in the distance

We are in!

Immediately we see art pieces

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Swinging up in the sky

Butterflies

Flamingoes on stilts

A shade "tree" another living pod and the lady in white

As the day wore on this was a very popular place to sit

It is still early and not so many folks are here

The music goes on all day

Owl you doing?

Flamingo 

This is a list of all the types of wristbands that the ushers might see

The stage

The big storks are out

They look hungry

Bubbles!

Boots

I ordered a vino tinto (red wine) and they poured out a cool aid like sangria, sent it back!

I got a GnT instead

The crowd is filtering in

And it's full!

We found a chair

With room enough to squeeze in Cristina

Not so much room anymore

Some clouds are rolling in

A sub-par burger

It is drizzling but  the show goes on

Very threatening

Blam!  The skies open up

Lightening up

Bubbles!

The rain added a bit of mist that the lights caught

In line I saw this shirt with cloth post it notes sewed on

Beer vendors working the crowd

      It has been 4 years and 126 days since we began our Migration

18 October 2026 Seville: A Trip to the Fine Arts Museum

 

The music festival was a 12 hour marathon and we knew better than to get there too early.  There was no way we could last the entire 12 hours so we added another activity.  We wanted to eat a big lunch so we did not have to eat the food truck food at the concert.  It wasn't easy as the first five places we stopped at were completely full.  We finally found a Dutch place for lunch and the schnitzel I ordered was passable, but Leslie's spring roll turned out to be a deep fried curry egg roll!  We ate what we could and then headed over to the Seville Fine Arts museum.  It was 50% religious artifacts and the rest were mostly portraits.  The real gem was the building that housed the museum!   It was housed in a former convent built in 1594.

Looking for a restaurant and this square was decked out

Grand doors

Extended balconies

A great secret courtyard

A bike used as a sign for the restaurant

We got the worst table in the place

Our bill came pout in a little wooden shoe

The museum

A fun fixture 

The building shines right off the bat

Carved wooden panels

Clearly the church was the main art benefactor

Hmmm, a severed head

Anatomically correct

When your new friends invite you over for dinner!

Mustache row

Tiles

So colorful and detailed

Ceramic and a wall hangiong

This is a serious ceiling 

So much going on

Very inmpressive

The door into the library

A sleepy little tyke

Dog wrestling

A much more friendly dog

The galleries were very well designed

A painting of an exorcism 

The little demon that emerged

An entire wall depicting the life of a saint

Another serious ceiling

Carving and more carving

Did the artist die and the angel finished the painting.  Or did the angel kill the artist and deface the painting?

A bit of period correct mucic

The townsfolk hold up a painting of Saint Francis of Paola which stops an earthquake mid-tremor  

Fine cabinetry

The center of attention

Photo realism from before there was photography

We have entered the bullfighting wing

This matador did not make it

Do not distract the matadors befor the fight

The three eras of this woman's life, single, married and widdowed

Ahhhhh the ruffled skirt

We have reached the end

Heading out via the courtyards

Back outside

Knockers

Heading back to the car next to the local market

      It has been 4 years and 126 days since we began our Migration