ANDALUSIA DAY

Read the text carefully and answer the questions below.

The capital city of Andalusia
Seville is Andalusia's largest city and its administrative centre. Seville is full of 1magnificent churches, convents, monuments and Moorish buildings. It's also famous for its multitude of tapas bars and a noisy nightlife.
One of Europe's biggest cathedrals is here, the 2 vast Gothic Catedral  with its famous minaret, the Giralda. Nearby is another of the city's most impressive 3sights, the elaborately ornate Mudéjar palace of the Alcázar. Close to Seville is the ruined settlement of Italica, one of the Roman Empire's most important cities, with its mosaics and 4huge amphitheatre.

Farmland to the east, Carmona
Going to the east from the city there is a vast, undulating countryside of cereal fields and olive trees with a series of towns - Carmona, Écija, Estepa and Osuna.
Located on a low hill overlooking a fertile plain, Carmona is a picturesque, small town with a magnificent 15th century tower built in imitation of Seville's Giralda. Not surprisingly, given its proximity, Carmona shares a similar history to Seville, and was an important Roman city which, under the Moors was often governed by a brother of the Sevillan ruler. Later Pedro the Cruel built a palace within its castle which he used as his royal residence in the country.
At the entrance to the town is the Puerta de Sevilla a grand and ruinous fortified 5gateway which leads to the historic old part of the city. Within the wall, you can find narrow streets with Mudejar churches and Renaissance mansions. Up still further is the Plaza San Fernando which is small but dominated by splendid Moorish style buildings.
Close by to the east is Santa Maria, a 6stately Gothic church built over the former main mosque. Dominating the town are the massive ruins of Pedro's palace, destroyed by an earthquake in 1504 and now 7taken over by a 8gracious parador. To the left  you can see the Roman Puerta de Córdoba from where the original Cordoba road drops down to a vast plain.
The Roman necropolis is particularly 9noteworthy. It lies on a low hill at the opposite end of Carmona amid cypress trees and contains more than nine hundred family tombs dating from the second century BC to the fourth century AD. Some of the larger tombs have vestibules with stone 10benches for funeral banquets and several retain carved family emblems. Opposite is a partly excavated ampitheatre. Carmona is a fascinating town and well worth a visit.

1º- Replace the underlined words by their synonyms.

Entrance

Long seats

Views

Elegant

Nice

Splendid

Immense

Huge

Replaced

Remarkable

2º- Say if these statements are true or false.

1______Seville is only known for its monuments.

2______The cathedral retains an important Moorish element.

3______Italica was a city at the times of the Roman Empire.

4______Carmona´s tower looks like Seville´s Giralda.

5______Carmona didn´t exist at the times of the Romans.

6______Pedro the Cruel built the palace but never lived there.

7______There are only Gothic monuments in the old part of the city.

8______Santa María church was built over a mosque.

9______Pedro´s palace was destroyed by his enemies in the 16^th century.

10_____Now that palace is a parador.

11_____Inside the tombs of the necropolis, the Romans used to celebrate banquets.