Feria street is the main artery of the neighborhood that bears his name. It is located parallel between the Alameda and San Luis Street, it presents a space full of traditional shops, artists workshops, markets, bars and restaurants. It seems that when King Fernando III conquered Seville in 1248, a popular open-air market was already …
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Very close to the beginning of calle Feria is the Palace of Las Dueñas, a building built in the 5th century and belonging to the House of Alba since the 17th century. Entrance of Las Dueñas' Palace The name of the palace comes from a convent of Cistercian nuns that were on the same street, …
San Luis de los Franceses is a very interesting visit if you are around the center of Seville and an interesting example of the 18th-century Sevillian Baroque. The church was founded as a novitiate of the Jesuits in 1730. The Jesuits arrived in Seville in 1554 and were expelled in 1767 and although they returned …
Not many Sevillians know that in the 9th century the city was attacked several times by the Vikings. During the emirate of the Umayyads in Córdoba, a Viking fleet arrived in Seville on Guadalquivir on September 25, 844. The Vikings sacked the city, killed many of its citizens, although they couldn’t burn the Great Mosque …
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The Feria neighborhood is part of the Casco Antiguo district, one of the 11 districts into which the city of Seville is divided. In addition to calle Feria, it is made up of the Alameda de Hércules and adjacent streets, such as Faustino Álvarez, part of calle Relator and all the streets that connect the …
Seville is the capital of Andalusia and the fourth most populated city in Spain. According to the legend, the city was founded by a Phoenician navigator named Melkart more than 3,000 years ago, the same one that also founded Cadiz and would later be known as Hercules by Romans. Archaeological excavations have been carried out …
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