The Hollywood of Andalucia

While roaming around the city these past few days, we have run up on filming locations for an, as yet, unnamed movie that is apparently set in Sevilla. This location on the Plaza de Pilatos seemed to be a scene with a young woman running from a larger, somewhat out of shape, man. You see the woman run by and then the out of shape man giving up the pursuit:


This morning the same film crew was set up on San Jacinto, the main street at the end of our street.

They were filming a scene in which a small blue car races down the street and nearly strikes a cafe waiter:


Moments later, an antique car, decked out in just married decor, races down the street after the blue car and nearly strikes the waiter again:


Over the past couple of days, with Rachel and Taylor, we've visited much higher profile filming locations in Sevilla too. For example, we visited the Real Alcázar. This garden:

and other sites in the palace were used in the Game of Thrones series:

Yesterday, we visited the Plaza de España:

This site was used extensively in Star Wars as Queen Amidala's Palace:

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This afternoon Palma invited us to her sister's bar, Bulebar Cafe. It was the 23rd anniversary of its opening. It's a lovely little place and the only bar I've ever heard of that hosts a regular series of science lectures called "Ciencia en Bulebar". Because it was a big event for Palma's family, we were able to meet a lot of her friends and family. We met her parents, her sisters and even her daughter. Even though there were a lot of people there that she knew, Palma graciously spent a lot of time chatting with us.

Also, she promised to send Mario a picture of us under the 23rd anniversary sign (Mario was out of town and couldn't be there). She shared it with us too:

Plus, free beer!