The first around the world trip took place in the 16th century and the departing point and organization was from the city of Seville. In 1518 Ferdinand Magellan (Fernão de Magalhães in Portuguese) had proposed his idea of reaching the…

Baroque sculpture in the Fine Arts Museum of Seville (November 2019-March 2020) The subtitle of this exhibition is "Teacher of Teachers" and this is true, since we must not forget that his art was inherited by sculptors such as Juan de…

In a large room of the Alcazar of Seville there are a series of 6 huge tapestries of almost 40 square meters. Five of them represent scenes of a war, but the sixth is different, it shows a strange map of the European continent and North Africa…

The Roman city of Italica in Santiponce 8 km from Seville is proposed to obtain the category of World Heritage by Unesco in the year 2020. This would suppose a fourth monument / historical place of the city of Seville with this distinction after…

Maybe he was not the first but definitely one of them. In the spring of 1828, Washington Irving arrived at the port of Seville, this happened 190 years ago. He came aboard the Betis, the first steam ship in Spain that traced the Guadalquivir from…