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Carriage Museum

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The Carriage Museum of Seville was opened on 17 October 1999 with the aim of becoming part of the town's cultural circuit, introducing the public to the exciting world of horse-drawn carriages.

The exhibition presented is very varied, with a staging that makes the exhibition a real pleasure for the senses of any visitor.

The Carriage Museum of Seville is an old convent from the 16th century, but before that there was a small hermitage of the Virgen de los Remedios, built in 1526, in front of the Mulas dock, where sailors were entrusted before leaving for the Americas, from this place where the expedition of Magellan and Elcano in the first round-the-world trip took place.

Around 1573 the archbishop of Seville decided to build the convent of the same name, the Barefoot Carmelites.

Over the years the convent underwent many changes due to the looting by the French or the confiscation of Mendizábal in the 19th century, which transformed it into a lumberyard by selling it to private buyers. As of that time it had several uses until Cuban magnate Rafael González Abreu turned it into the headquarters of the Cuban Hispanic Institute of American History around 1930, after an intense remodelling.

The Museum is divided into four rooms, each with a specific topic. In the first room there are three countryside and work carriages. The second room is dedicated to the urban transportation and houses carriages for walking and travelling, where you will become familiar with the form and use of this type of carriages. In the third room, the room is occupied by sports and hunting carriages, as well as a collection of carriage hitches. And the fourth room there includes a scenographic reproduction of a horse that will allow you to see a carriage in more detail. Next to each carriage there is information on lecterns in panels, about the particular piece and about the context in which it was.

Among the jewels on display you will see team vehicles, irrigation carriages, galleys, wagons, buggies, fancy carriages, sports carriages or the first taxis. The drag used by the Marquis of Alcañices at the wedding of Alfonso XII or the luxury sedan of the Brotherhood of El Sagrario, apparently from the Montpensier "small court" in the Palace of San Telmo, are particularly noteworthy.

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