Sevilla

11 Art Landmarks in Sevilla

11 landmarks with verified facts and stories

Basílica de la Macarena
~3 min

Basílica de la Macarena

1 Calle Bécquer, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41002, Spain

religionculturehistory

Seville has dozens of churches, but this is the one that makes the city weep.

Casa de Pilatos
~4 min

Casa de Pilatos

1 Plaza de Pilatos, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41003, Spain

architecturehistorymoorish

The name of this palace is based on a misunderstanding, but it is a beautiful one.

Centro Cerámico Triana
~2 min

Centro Cerámico Triana

16 Calle Callao, Triana, Seville, 41010, Spain

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Every tiled bench in the Plaza de Espana, every azulejo facade on a church, every decorative ceramic panel in a Seville courtyard — many of them started life in the kilns of Triana.

Convento de Santa Paula
~2 min

Convento de Santa Paula

11 Calle de Santa Paula, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41003, Spain

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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 min

Hospital de la Caridad

3 Calle Temprado, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41001, Spain

architecturebaroquehistory

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
~2 min

Iglesia de San Luis de los Franceses

27 Calle de San Luis, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41003, Spain

architecturebaroquereligion

If you can visit only one Baroque church in Seville that is not the cathedral, make it this one.

Museo de Bellas Artes
~3 min

Museo de Bellas Artes

9 Plaza del Museo, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41001, Spain

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Spain's second-most important art museum — after the Prado — is housed in a former convent that is itself a work of art.

Museo del Baile Flamenco
~3 min

Museo del Baile Flamenco

3 Calle de Manuel Rojas Marcos, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41004, Spain

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In a city that claims to be the birthplace of flamenco — and will fight anyone who says otherwise — there was no dedicated museum to the art form until 2006.

Palacio de la Condesa de Lebrija
~3 min

Palacio de la Condesa de Lebrija

8 Calle Cuna, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41004, Spain

architecturehistoryhidden-gem

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.

Plaza del Cabildo
~2 min

Plaza del Cabildo

Plaza el Cabildo, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41001, Spain

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Hundreds of thousands of tourists walk within twenty metres of this square every year and never find it.

Triana
~4 min

Triana

Barrio de Triana, 41010 Sevilla

culturelocal-lifefood

Cross the Guadalquivir on the Puente de Isabel II and you leave tourist Seville behind.

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