Plaza del Triunfo

This guide to Plaza del Triunfo in Seville begins with the 1755 earthquake that devastated Lisbon and shook Seville badly enough to crack the Giralda mid-mass, and the column Sevillians raised in gratitude for surviving it. It then turns to a second monument that rose a century and a half later, in gleaming Carrara marble, dedicated to a different kind of devotion entirely. Take a moment at the center of the square to compare the two columns facing each other across the paving.