Madmen and geographers

[April 21, Sevilla]

The builders of Sevilla's cathedral promised to "build a cathedral so large that anyone who sees it will take us for madmen". They succeeded. None of these photos can suggest its massiveness, third only to St. Peter's (Rome) and St. Paul's (London).

Besides the expected abundance of precious materials and gold,

the Cathedral houses the tomb of a good sailor who flunked geography: Christopher Columbus. At least so we are told. He was buried first in Spain, then in (what is now) the Dominican Republic, then in Cuba, and finally repatriated to Spain in 1900. Regardless of who's inside, it's a nice tomb.