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".

"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.

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.

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.

THE OPERA CARMEN

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.

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.

Carmen, to see that his fault the Sergeant had lost the gallons, consoles him giving him her love and she encourages him to rebel.

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.

THE LIZARD OF THE CATHEDRAL

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.

THE SEWING ROOM OF THE QUEEN

It was commissioned for the Duke of Montpensier to architect Juan Talavera, who managed to finish it there by year 1893. At that time it was very fashionable in Europe imitate previous architectural styles and the sewing room of the Queen is a good example of this.

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 of health of Maria de las Mercedes, daughter of the Duke and future Queen of Spain.

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.

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.

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.

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 of the image of the Christ of the Expiration was present at the event and that he had opportunity to witness the agony of the gypsy “El Cachorro”.

Captured with the eyes the face of that dying at the moment of his death and was endorsed by the terrible expression reflected themselves quite naturally in the work which in those days was doing.