We had a special ticket to get a rooftop tour. Here is the entrance with the head engineer of the cathedral.
You get to see all the structure on the upper levels. The walls around the edge are nice.
To make the roof lighter, pots were used inside them to give strength of structure and hollow areas for less weight. These have been removed after roof repairs.
The dome cap of a room below along with a gothic support strut.
A good view of the old minaret or new giralda. Inside it there are no stairs and instead there is a ramp so that the person who called people to prayer, when it was a mosque, could ride a donkey to the top.
A view of the Alcazar and the neighborhood around it.
These are the lines used for building the various structures on the roof. They have been highlighted in white to see them better for modern visitors.
The exit from the roof.
A very interesting structure and worth a visit.
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