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Big Gay Out was repeated, though this time separate from London Pride, in 2005. This motto is seen throughout Seville, inscribed on manhole covers. Along with the music festival "Big Gay Out", a ticketed event for over 35,000 people in Finsbury Park acting as London's Gay Pride festival for 2004. This refers to the city's support for king Alphonse X in the war with his son Don Sancho in the 13th century. These events include several parties for members featuring well-known popular music acts. This makes the motto, as a rebus read "NO madeja DO" which is a pun on "no me ha dejado" = "it has not abandoned me". Although serving users internationally, Faceparty markets mainly in the United Kingdom and has run many major events since its launch in 2000, mostly in London. The "8" is shaped like a wool hank, in Spanish madeja.

It is quite possible that these pay-for services have contributed to the site's recent decline in the face of other free services, such as MySpace. The motto of Seville is "NO8DO". The so-called 'Adult Verification Service' allows members to view adult imagery on other member's profiles, and the name is somewhat misleading; there are other ways to prove someone's age without getting them to spend monthly credit card subscription, and it is possible to buy these services with cards registered to under-18s. Celtic took more than 80,000 fans to the city, which was transformed into a sea of green and white. Also Faceparty incorporates paid-for services: Cool Tools allows members to, amongst other things personalise their profiles and track visits to their profiles. The match finshed in extra time 3–2 to Porto after a 2-2 draw at 90 minutes. For those in need of support Faceparty offers Grim Rita, a parodic agony aunt with a dry sense of humour and a great amount of wit at her disposal. The final was between Celtic FC (Scotland) and Porto FC (Portugal).

As well as Groups; a feature that allows members to browse other profiles with similar interests. Seville also hosted in 2003 the UEFA Cup Final in the new Olympic stadium. Incorporated into the website are services that allow you to browse the community by location, age, gender, and sexuality. Seville had already shown its ability to cope with other international sport events such as the Tennis Davis Cup. . For political reasons, it was unable to bid for the 2012 Summer Olympics as Madrid was also interested in submitting its own bid. Faceparty allows users to create online profiles and interact with each other using an advanced instant chat, messaging facilities (like an interface to email), and audio "voicemail messaging". Seville also unsuccessfully bid for the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics, which it lost to Athens and Beijing, respectively.

Faceparty is a community social networking website primarily populated by teens through to late twenties. Seville hosted the 7th Athletics World Championships in 1999. Home town of two rival soccer teams Real Betis Balompié and Sevilla FC. The Seville oranges that dot the city landscape, too sour for modern tastes, are the best for making marmalade; they are irrigated with "gray" wastewaster. But the folksongs called Sevillanas are authentically Sevillan, as is the four-part dance that goes with them.

The Sevillana flamenco dance, the one most people think of when they think "flamenco" is not actually of Sevillan origin. Seville is known for its hot summer weather, reaching even 50.0°C (122.0°F) on August 4, 1881, the record heat for Europe. All of these are consumed throughout the year. Typical of this province are polvorones and mantecados from the town of Estepa, a sort of shortcake made with almonds, sugar and lard; Pestiños, a honey-coated sweet fritter; Roscos fritos, deep-fried sugar-coated ring doughnuts; magdalenas or fairy cakes; yemas de San Leandro, made by nuns in the city's convents, providing the convents with a source of revenue; and Tortas de aceite, a thin sugar-coated cake made with olive oil.

The fair grounds are set up like a type of village in which each street is named after a famous torero, or bull fighter. The women wear elaborate flamenco dresses and the men dress in their best suits. During Feria families set up casetas or tents in which they spend the week dancing, drinking and socializing with their whole extended families. Seville is internationally renowned for the solemn but beautiful processions during Semana Santa, and the colourful and lively fair held two weeks after.

The Easter Holy week, "Semana Santa", and the Seville Fair, "La Feria de Sevilla" (also Feria de Abril, "April Fair") are the two most well-known of Seville's festivals. The Parque Maria Luisa was built for the 1929 Exposición Ibero-Americana World's Fair, and remains landscaped with attractive monuments and museums. A chain was strung through the water from the base of the tower to prevent boats from traveling into the river port. The Torre del Oro was built by the Almohad dynasty as watchtower and defensive defensive barrier on the river.

Additional construction continued for over 500 years. The Alcázar facing the cathedral is the city's old Moorish Palace; construction was begun in 1181. The Giralda is the city's most famous symbol. It is topped with a statue representing Faith.

The Cathedral reused some columns and elements from the mosque, and most famously the Giralda, originally a minaret, was converted into a bell tower. The interior, with the longest nave in Spain, is lavishly decorated, with a large quantity of gold evident. It is the largest of all medieval and Gothic cathedrals, in terms of both area and volume. The city's cathedral was built from 1401–1519 after the Reconquista on the former site of the city's mosque.

The mayor of Seville is Alfredo Sánchez Monteseirín. In the 2004 Spanish general election, they had a majority of 30.4% over their nearest rivals - higher than in any other Spanish provincial capital city. Today Seville is a stronghold of the socialists (PSOE). The final assemblage and the test flights of the Airbus A400M military aircraft will be done in the new EADS Spain plant built near the San Pablo Airport.

Seville hosted the European Summit in June 2002; this was met with a counter-summit by those opposing neoliberalism and the tightening of European regulations on immigration. The showpiece Alamillo bridge spanning the Guadalquivir designed by Santiago Calatrava, was built for this occasion. Seville was the home of Expo 92 World's Fair. Due to its proximity to Africa, during the Spanish Civil War, Seville fell soon to the insurgent army led by Francisco Franco.

Seville was a stronghold of the liberals during the Spanish Civil War, 1820-1823. Other treasures of the Americas passed first through Seville: the first commercial shipment of chocolate from Veracruz arrived in Seville in 1585. The American silver was rapidly transhipped to Antwerp or Genoa, seat of the bankers who had advanced steady funds to the Spanish Crown. The American riches made it a magnet for people around Spain, ranging from latifundia nobles and foreign merchants (who were brokered by Spanish cargadores) to an active crime scene, pictured in the picaresque genre.

Much of the Spanish Empire's silver from the New World came to Europe in the Spanish treasure fleet that landed in Seville, and Seville holds the most important archive of the Spanish administration in the Americas (the Archivo General de Indias). From Seville Ferdinand Magellan obtained the ships for his circumnavigation. Amerigo Vespucci died in Seville. Seville was long an important sea port, prior to the silting up of the Guadalquivir.

The city sits well inland, but a mere 6 meters above sea level. Seville was governed from Cordoba but as a port it retained strategic importance: Emir Abd ar-Rahman II built a fleet and arsenal at Seville in the mid-9th century. After a brief independence as one of the taifa principalities, from 1023 to 1091, when it was the seat of the Abbadids while the Caliphate of Cordoba collapsed, Seville then fell to the Reconquista of Ferdinand III of Castile in 1248. The architecture of the older parts of the city still reflects the centuries of Moorish control of the city, beginning in 711.

In 206 BCE, Scipio Africanus founded Italica nearby, to settle his wounded veterans, and began the reconstruction of Hispalis. Later it was a trading colony occupied by the Phoenicians and the Carthaginians, who destroyed the city in 216 BCE. Though Greeks and Romans repeated a founding myth connected with Heracles' visit to the Hesperides the historical site was occupied by the Tartessos in the 8th or 9th century BCE. Roman Hispalis, in the province of Hispania Baetica, became ʾIšbīliyyah (Arabic أشبيليّة) under the Moors.

. Population of the metropolitan area (urban area plus satellite towns) was 1,317,098 as of 2005 (INE estimate), ranking as the fourth-largest metropolitan area of Spain. Population of the urban area was 1,043,000 as of 2000 estimates. Population of the city of Seville proper was 704,154 as of 2005 (INE estimate).

The inhabitants of the city are known as Sevillanos (feminine form: Sevillanas). It is the capital of Andalusia and of the province of Sevilla. Seville (Spanish: Sevilla, see also different names) is the artistic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain, crossed by the river Guadalquivir (37°22′38″N, 5°59′13″W).
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Seville is also used as one of the location in Dan Brown's "Digital Fortress". Seville is both the location and setting for much of the 1985 Doctor Who television serial The Two Doctors. Seville appears in the first chapter of science fiction novel Ringworld by Larry Niven. The Plaza de España in the Parque de María Luisa appears in George Lucas' Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones as well as in Lawrence of Arabia.

Seville is the setting of the novel "The Seville Communion" by Arturo Pérez-Reverte. Seville is the setting of the novel and film Nadie conoce a nadie, which incorporates the elaborate Sevillian processions during Holy Week. The episode "The Grand Inquisitor" in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov is set with Christ's return to Seville. Seville is the primary setting of many operas, the best known of which are Bizet's "Carmen," Rossini's "The Barber of Seville," Verdi's "La Forza del Destino," Beethoven's "Fidelio," Mozart's "Don Giovanni" and "The Marriage of Figaro," and Prokofiev's "Betrothal in a Monastery.".

Seville is the setting for the legend of Don Juan. politicians Felipe González, President of the Government of Spain from 1982 to 1996, and Alfonso Guerra, vice president from 1982 to 1991. singer Isabel Pantoja. actresses Carmen Sevilla and Paz Vega.

composer Joaquín Turina. Luis Cernuda. Antonio Machado, his brother. Manuel Machado.

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