That other place I needed to be is Catedral de Sevilla. Roofs to be climbed!
Top tip: the Catedral is another one I strongly recommend booking tickets online. Queue is long and very exposed.
I booked "Assisted visit of the roof + Free visit of the Catedral, Giralda and Salvador". On that particular day the Catedral and Giralda were not open to public but we could visit the day before or after.
Due to the closure that day, there were a lot of confusions about the roof tour. One guy told me I needed to go to Puerta San Miguel on the other side of the Catedral. But quickly corrected by his colleague. Finally our guide showed up and we picked up our headphones and receivers, through a tiny door behind the tomb of Columbus, up we went!
As you can see apart from some people preparing for an event (that's why they closed the Catedral) this place was empty.
Our guide pointed out many marks left by stonemasons on the spiral staircases, sorry no pictures, I was busy climbing
As Sevilla is very hot and dry, they didn't need to build a pointed roof like most Gothic Cathedrals.
Instead there were covering over the arches filled with those pots.
Those lines are 1:1 drawings for a stained glass window frame.
Behind the main altarpiece.
Up and close to the Giralda.
This was directly on top of the nave iirc. Apparently the roof cracked during the great earthquake of Lisbon.
The flying buttresses.
We finished our tour in the orange garden (el patio de los naranjos sounds so much better
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The roof tour ticket is €15 including general entry to the Catedral which is
€9 anyways, so only
€6 extra! Excellent value if you ask me.
Another top tip: I believe there are only one or two English roof tours per day, so book early!