Carmona Spain

Carmona is a white town of 17,000 people that is about 29 kilometers northeast of Seville. The town can be seen in a day trip from Seville. Mass tourism has not reached this quiet town yet. The whole town is located on a high bluff which overlooks the plains below. The town is a beautiful white town that is very clean. About 50 movies have been...

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Santiponce Spain

Santiponce is a small town across the river and 7 km away from Seville. It contains the ruins of the Roman town of Italica. During the Punic Wars, the Roman general Publio Cornelio Escipion established the Roman colony of Italica, in 206 B.C. This was going to be the home of the Roman soldiers who had been wounded in the war. The colony became...

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Plaza del Cabildo Spain

Close to the Cathedral is the Plaza del Cabildo, a little plaza that is part of a beautiful building. One can get to it by looking between Calle Arfe and Calle Almirantazgo. The architect of the building was Joaquin Barquin Barron. The building has a curve and there is an arcade that is decorated with frescos. The columns are made of marble. There...

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The Ayuntamiento (City Hall) Spain

The Ayuntamiento building is one of the beautiful buildings in Seville and it is located between Plaza Nueva and Plaza San Francisco. The architect of this building was Diego de Riaño and it was constructed between 1527 and 1564. It is a Renaissance building and the eastern facade is Plateresque, a style that appeared only in Spain, and this can...

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Torre del Oro (Gold Tower) Spain

The Torre del Oro (Gold Tower) is a military watchtower located by the Guadalquivir River and was constructed by the Moors during the Almohad dynasty, in the 13th century. Its purpose was to control access to the city from the river. There was a chain that was connected to another tower (no longer in existence) across the river and the chain could...

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The Archivo General de Indias Spain

The Archivo General de Indias is located by the Cathedral and it is the place where all the records of the New World empire of Spain were kept. It is also called Casa Lonja. Lonja means a place where merchants meet. Until the 16th century, the merchants in Seville met daily at the Patio de los Naranjos beside the Cathedral. When the weather was...

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The Popular Arts Museum Spain

In Maria Luisa Park is the Popular Arts Museum (Museo de Artes y Costumbres Populares de Sevilla). The building was built for the 1929 exhibition and is one of the most beautiful Mudejar buildings in Seville. In front of it is a beautiful pond surrounded with railings, amid a beautiful garden. The collection has lace, ceramics, clothing, work tools,...

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Basilica of Jesus of the Great Power Spain

The Basilica is a small church in the San Lorenzo Square, built in 1965, and it was inspired by the Roman Pantheon of Agrippa. It contains the statue of Jesus of the Great Power, who is venerated in Seville and is one of the city’s favorites. The statue shows Christ carrying the cross. The sculpture was created by Juan de Mesa in 1620 and during...

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Hospital de los Venerables Spain

The Hospital de los Venerables has a beautiful patio with a fountain and many plants arranged very symetrically and is located in a beautiful Baroque palace that was built in 1695 by Leonardo Figueroa. The hospital was founded by Justino de Neve. It has paintings by Valdez Leal and his son Lucas Leal. There is a church with a single nave and barrel...

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Hospital de la Caridad Spain

The Hospital de la Caridad was built by Don Miguel Mañara, who was a Seville aristocrat of Italian descent. In his early life, he devoted himself to the pleasures of the typical aristocrat. However his wife died in 1661 when Mañara was 34 years old. This caused him to reflect on his life and he decided to devote the rest of his life to doing good....

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Basilica of La Macarena Spain

The Basilica of La Macarena is a modern church built between 1941 and 1946 by the architect Aurelio Gomez Millan, who built it in a Neo-Baroque style. It has been a basilica since 1966. It is famous for housing the Virgin of Hope, Nuestra Señora de la Esperanza, who is also called La Macarena. The statue is attributed to the famous sculptress Luisa...

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Tabacalera Building Spain

This beautiful building has the fame of the opera Carmen, written by Georges Bizet, and is now used by the university for many of its colleges. The building is huge and was one of the biggest factories of the past. The building measures 250 x 180 meters and has two stories. There are four wings and has several interior patios. It was constructed...

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The Barrio Santa Cruz Spain

The Barrio Santa Cruz is beside the Alcazar and is bounded by the Alcazar, the Jardines de Murillo, Santa Maria La Blanca, and Calle Mateas Gago. The barrio used to be the old Jewish quarter. The streets are narrow and form a labyrinth, where it is easy to get lost. This is part of its charm, because when one is lost, one may discover a convent...

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The Hotel Alfonso XIII Spain

The Hotel Alfonso XIII is the best luxury hotel in Seville, in the heart of the city, and is a very historic hotel. It was designed to be the most luxurious hotel in Europe when it was conceived. The architect was Jose Espiau and the hotel was designed in the Neo-Mudejar style. This style was inspired by Arab architecture and with decorative elements...

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The Church of El Salvador Spain

The Church of El Salvador has recently been renovated and is one of the most beautiful churches in Seville. It is a Baroque church built in the 17th century and has several chapels done in gold. It has many religious sculptures by famous sculptors of the past. This is one of the finest Baroque churches in Andalusia. The church was built on top...

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Palace of the Countess of Lebrija Spain

The Palace of the Countess of Lebrija sits on a very narrow street in the historic center. It was built in the 15th century and rebuilt in the 16th century. The Countess of Lebrija was Doña Regla Manjon Mergelina, a very educated woman who had a great interest in archaeology. In 1900 the Countess decided to rebuild the palace. The city of Italica...

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The Casa de Pilatos Spain

In 1492 the governor of the King, Pedro Enriquez and his wife Catalina de Ribera started the construction of their palace in Seville. It was finished by their son Fabrique, the first Marques de Tarifa. Fabrique went as a pilgrim to Jerusalem between 1519 and 1521 and found out that his palace in Seville had the same distance from the Church Cruz...

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The Archaeological Museum

The Archaeological Museum is just across the Popular Arts Museum. The building was also designed for the 1929 exhibition and the façade is a mixture of baroque and neoclassic architecture. Its collection goes from prehistory to the 15th century. This museum has the most extensive collection of Roman works of art, collected from all of the province....

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Museo de Bellas Artes (Seville)

The Museo de Bellas Artes was founded in 1839 in the old Convento de la Merced Calzada, which was originally built in 1602. The building is an example of Andalusian mannerist architecture of the 17th century. At that time the government confiscated all the art in the convents and monasteries of Spain, and the art from Seville was placed in this...

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Maria Luisa Park Spain

The Maria Luisa Park is the largest park in Seville and one of the most beautiful in Europe. It has a very interesting history. Maria Luisa Fernanda was the younger sister of Queen Isabella II during the 19th century. She lived between 1832 and 1897. She was the youngest daughter of King Ferdinand VII of Spain. Isabella II married Fernando I,...

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Plaza de España Spain

The Plaza de España is a beautiful Mudejar plaza with a section for every province of Spain and includes a very large palace behind the open plaza. It was designed by Aníbal González and constructed for the Latin American Expo (Exposición Ibero-Americana) of 1929. This is one of the most beautiful squares in Spain. The plaza has a semicircular...

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Real Alcazar of Seville

The Real Alcazar of Seville is the oldest European royal residence and is not one building, but a group of buildings from different time periods and each building has a different architectural style. In the 9th century, the Moors built a military fort on top of a Visigothic basilica, and this was during the reign of the Emir Abdul Rahman II. Later...

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Giralda Tower Spain

Beside the church is the Giralda, the bell tower that is the symbol of Seville. It used to be the minaret of the old mosque and was designed by Abou Yakoub and built in 1184. The Christians topped the minaret with a five-story bell tower in 1568. On top of the bell tower is a weathervane in the form of a statue of Faith, called the giraldilla (something...

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Seville Cathedral Spain

The building of the Cathedral of Seville was started in 1401 after the destruction of the Moorish mezquita that was in that location. The legend is that it would be so large that when people saw it, they would think that the builders were madmen. The Church of Santa Maria de la Sede was inaugurated in 1507 and is the biggest Gothic church in Europe....

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