17 Stunning Architecture Landmarks in Sevilla
17 landmarks with verified facts and stories
Archivo General de Indias
3 Avenida de la Constitución, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41004, Spain
Every piece of paper that shaped the colonization of the Americas — treaties, letters, maps, ship manifests, death warrants — ended up here.
Avenida de la Constitución
Av. de la Constitución, 41001 Sevilla
This broad boulevard is the ceremonial spine of Seville, the street where every Semana Santa procession passes and where the city puts itself on display.
Casa de Pilatos
1 Plaza de Pilatos, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41003, Spain
The name of this palace is based on a misunderstanding, but it is a beautiful one.
Convento de Santa Paula
11 Calle de Santa Paula, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41003, Spain
Behind the unassuming walls of this working convent, enclosed Hieronymite nuns have been baking marmalade and sweets since 1473 — more than five and a half centuries of uninterrupted jam production.
Hospital de la Caridad
3 Calle Temprado, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41001, Spain
The man who founded this hospital was, by most accounts, the worst person in Seville before he became the best.
Iglesia de San Luis de los Franceses
27 Calle de San Luis, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41003, Spain
If you can visit only one Baroque church in Seville that is not the cathedral, make it this one.
Metropol Parasol (Las Setas)
Casco Antiguo, Seville, Spain
When the city demolished an old market in the Plaza de la Encarnacion and started digging foundations for a new parking garage, they hit Roman ruins.
Museo de Bellas Artes
9 Plaza del Museo, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41001, Spain
Spain's second-most important art museum — after the Prado — is housed in a former convent that is itself a work of art.
Palacio de la Condesa de Lebrija
8 Calle Cuna, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41004, Spain
In the early twentieth century, the Countess of Lebrija did something that would be a jailable offence today: she bought Roman mosaics excavated from the ruins of Italica, the ancient city just outside Seville, and had them installed as the floors of her sixteenth-century palace.
Palacio de San Telmo
Avenida de Roma, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41013, Spain
This extravagant Baroque palace has had more career changes than most buildings dream of.
Parque de María Luisa
Paseo de las Delicias, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41013, Spain
Half of this park was a private garden that belonged to the Palacio de San Telmo until 1893, when the Infanta Maria Luisa Fernanda — Duchess of Montpensier and sister of Queen Isabel II — donated the grounds to the city of Seville.
Plaza de España
Avenida Isabel la Católica, Seville, Seville, 41013, Spain
If this plaza looks like it was built for a movie set, that is because it essentially was — just not the movie you might think.
Plaza de Toros de la Real Maestranza
12 Paseo de Cristóbal Colón, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41001, Spain
This is the cathedral of bullfighting, and that is not hyperbole — it is the phrase Spaniards themselves use for the oldest and most prestigious bullring in the country.
Plaza del Cabildo
Plaza el Cabildo, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41001, Spain
Hundreds of thousands of tourists walk within twenty metres of this square every year and never find it.
Real Alcázar
Patio de Banderas, s/n, 41004 Sevilla
This palace has been continuously occupied by royalty for over a thousand years, making it one of the oldest royal residences still in active use anywhere in the world.
Real Fábrica de Tabacos
C. San Fernando, 4, 41004 Sevilla
This massive neoclassical fortress was not built to defend Seville from armies — it was built to defend tobacco from thieves.
Seville Cathedral & La Giralda
Av. de la Constitución, s/n, 41004 Sevilla
The clergy who commissioned this building in 1403 allegedly declared, "Let us build a church so great that those who see it finished will think we were mad.
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