Trabajo realizado para el 2º encuentro llevado a cabo en Bari (Italia), correspondiente al proyecto escolar europeo Comenius "Together in our (he)art!

1. "NO8DO" is the
official motto of the
coat of arms of Seville
and the subject of
one of the many
legends of Seville.
The legend has left its
very tangible mark
throughout the city
as NO8DO can be
seen on many places.
The motto is a rebus, combining the Spanish syllables
(NO and DO) and a drawing in between of the figure
"8". The figure represents a skein of yarn, or in Spanish,
a "madeja". When read aloud, "No madeja do" sounds
like "No me ha dejado", which means "It [Seville] has
not abandoned me".

2. After Ferdinand III death in the
Real Alcázar, his son, Alfonso
X assumed the throne. Alfonso X
was a poet, astronomer,
astrologer, musician and linguist.
Alfonso's son, Sancho IV of Castile, tried to
usurp the throne from his father, but the
people of Seville remained loyal to their
scholar king and this is where NO8DO was
believed to have originated when, according
to legend, Alfonso X rewarded the fidelity of
the "Sevillanos" (inhabitants of Seville) with
the words that now appear on the official
emblem of the city of Seville.

3. THE OPERA CARMEN
The Opera Carmen has served so many
people know about Seville. It is one of the
most known operas. Carmen was a girl who
lived on Betis street and worked in the
tobacco factory. Carmen was in love with a
Sergeant named Joseph.
On the occasion of a neighborhood
brawl, Sergeant José is driving people
arrested in the melee, among these
was Carmen. But due to his feminine
flirtatious games, Carmen gets that
Sergeant let escape through what he
is punished with degradation.

4. Carmen, to see that his fault the
Sergeant had lost the gallons,
consoles him giving him her love
and she encourages him to rebel.
To avoid prison José has to flee and joins a
band of smugglers, but Carmen falls in love
with a bullfighter and when she secretly,
was attending a bullfight where is his new
love, José, mad by jealousy stabs her, while,
oblivious to the tragedy, public give cheers
to the bullfighter who has triumphed.

5. THE LIZARD OF THE CATHEDRAL
In one of the buildings located in the
Patio de Los Naranjos in the Cathedral of
Seville, three objects can be seen hanging
from the ceiling: a life-size lizard, a mouthful
of horse and a baton.
According to legend by the year 1620,
a Muslim Sultan sent an Embassy to King
Alfonso X to ask for the hand of his
daughter. The Embassy brought some gifts
included an elephant tusk, the live Nile
crocodile, and a giraffe domesticated with
his mount, its brake and flanges.

6. Current crocodile is carved in wood,
although popularly be has always
believed that the animal was genuine and
be stuffed and he has been known as
lizard, for not knowing at that time be
greater than the animal.
But the King rejected the request of his
daughter's hand by which returned to the Sultan the
Embassy and gifts except for the crocodile and the
giraffe. Time passed and killed the crocodile, it was
dissected and his skin stuffed with straw was hung
with the brake of the giraffe. Years later, it crashed as
I remember the rod of the Spanish Ambassador
returned from Egypt.

7. THE SEWING ROOM OF THE QUEEN
The sewing room of the Queen is one of the most unique
buildings in Seville. More than one, surprised by its location
and its architectural, style that will have questioned how has
come down there, at first glance it seems extracted a fairy
tale, giving the sensation that had teleported from medieval
times until our times without suffering damage. But no, this
building is not so old.
It was built due to
the delicate state It was commissioned for the Duke of
of health of Maria Montpensier to architect Juan Talavera,
de las Mercedes, who managed to finish it there by year
daughter of the 1893. At that time it was very fashionable
Duke and future in Europe imitate previous architectural
Queen of Spain. styles and the sewing room of the Queen
is a good example of this.

8. She was very weak and
very pale and doctors
advised him to take much
sun. So put her a sewing
room, to take a sun bath
every morning while she
did their work of sewing
and talked to the future
King Alfonso XII.
They married and were moved to Madrid, but the state of her health worsened and had
to come back to the sun of Seville. Later she was near the coast, so that the breeze
marine could heal him, but it was not possible. Not served at all and before dying she
returned to Madrid, but not before passing by Seville and see for the last time that
place where dreamed many times with her beloved husband.

9. THE CHRIST OF THE EXPIRATION (EL CACHORRO)
Lived in Triana a gypsy, nicknamed “El Cachorro”, who every day across the bridge of
boats, next to the castle of Saint George, arrived in Seville.
A man resident in the city came to suspect this man, thinking that his visit was not for
another reason that the commit adultery with his own wife. Jealousy reached such
extremes that, some day, knowing of the visit of the gypsy, waited it hidden. He struck
seven stab wounds that caused the death.

10. The Christ of the
Expiration, remains as
a memento of the ill-
fated gypsy, and since
then, walk through
Seville during Holy
week and which
everyone names since
then “El Cachorro”.
Ensures that the sculptor
Captured with the
of the image of the
eyes the face of that
Christ of the Expiration
dying at the moment
was present at the event
of his death and was
and that he had
endorsed by the
opportunity to witness
terrible expression
the agony of the gypsy
reflected themselves
“El Cachorro”.
quite naturally in the
work which in those
days was doing.