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Culture of Seville


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city streets. They are bitter and commonly used to make marmalade for export to the United Kingdom and lotions. According to legend, the trees were imported when the mosque was constructed in order to provide shade and mask the scent of the mediaeval city; however the tree originates from Vietnam.

Music

Seville had a strong music scene in the 1970s and 1980s with bands like Triana, Alamedaand Smash, who fused Andalusia's traditional flamenco music with British-style progressive rock, continuing into the early 1990s groups like Reincidentes and Sr Chinarro and singerKiko Veneno. The city's music scene has now switched to rap acts such as SFDK, Tote King, La Mala Rodríguez, and Dogma Crew. Seville's music scene is quite diverse and this is reflected in its nightlife.

The city is also home to many theatres and theatre spaces where classical music is offered, such as Teatro Lope de Vega, Teatro La Maestranza, Teatro Central, the Real Alcazar Gardens and the Sala Joaquín Turina.

Despite its name, the sevillana dance, commonly presented as flamenco, is not thought to be of Sevillan origin. However, the folksongs called sevillanas are authentically Sevillan, as is the four-part dance that goes with them. Seville, and most significantly the western district of Triana, was a major centre in the development of flamenco
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