It represents the 14 stations of Christ’s journey from the palace of Pontius Pilate to Calvary for crucifixion.
With destination the Cathedral on Sunday 17 February, there will be parades, 14 “pasos” reproducing the corresponding 14 stations or scenes: the reading of the sentence, the three falls, the Crucifixion, the Burial …
It is a unique opportunity to see, the processions in the street at a time that is not Easter, the big festival of Seville.
Also with a dramatization by the classical theater company, in various scenes featuring characters that inhabited the walls of Alcazar: Isabel la Catolica, Pedro I the Cruel or the Sultan Al-Mutamid can be seen around here.
The Real Alcazar of Seville is the oldest royal residence in Europe still in use, built in the X century by Muslims was also the palace of the Christian kings.
An architectural jewel of 1000 years of history and a magical place to get lost.
Visits are organized and will take place Thursday and Friday. It has been such a succesul idea that the tickets are sold out for next representations. But in the coming months we’ll enjoy it.
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The marmalade is made by the nuns of Santa Paula, from their orange orchard.
It is also well known in England. The Scots and English who came in the nineteenth century to the Rio Tinto mines exported the bitter orange to their country of origin and there, Seville jam (with Seville orange) was fundamental in the English breakfast.
The orange, or citrus aurantium, was brought the Arabs in the south of Spain. It is also used for perfumes, essences, confectionery and the orange blossom water has curative properties.
Finally, in China there is a belief that the bitter orange tree is a tree that brings happiness.
King Alfonso XIII was visiting the city and passed by the house of John Tooth. He told the mayor of Seville, Cayetano Luca de Tena, it wasn’t nice to have a house next to one of the most famous landmarks town.
The mayor immediately made the same night tear down the house. Luca de Tena ordered a new home for John Tooth and his family that morning.
The next day, when the King left the Palace, he noted impressed that there was no sign of the house. The wall was found empty and free, as we see it today. He called the mayor and congratulated him for his diligence in serving the words offered in the previous day’s ride.
The building, now the Town Hall, is located in the Plaza de San Francisco. It was founded in the sixteenth century as a Franciscan convent, the most popular order of the city’s and originally included all current space of Plaza Nueva and Hotel Inglaterra.
The facade that remains is that of the Plaza de San Francisco. Made in Plateresque style, a version of the Spanish Renaissance, very decorative, so called because it is so fine as the work of a goldsmith (plateros). Its author was in the early sixteenth century Diego de Riaño who is also the author of the Main sacristy of the Cathedral.
The Mapping can be enjoyed until January 5 every night at 19,20 and 21 hours. It is free.
This image can be seen in the Chapter House of the cathedral and the main hall of the Museum of Fine Arts. Also on the exhibition currently at the Hospital of Venerables in the Santa Cruz.
In the Plaza del Triunfo of Sevilla is there is also sculpture dedicated to the Immaculate. It is based on the popular paintings by Murillo and was made in 1920 by the artist Collaut Varela.
These days there are floral offerings and the night of December 7th “tunas” : (college singing groups in the traditional dresses) play and sing in honor of Our Lady.