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The Cathedral and the Giralda

The Cathedral

The Cathedral of Seville is the largest Gothic temple in the world and the third largest in Christendom after St. Peter's in the Vatican and St. Paul's in London. Building works began in 1403 on the former Great Mosque of Seville, an Almohad work of which the Patio de los Naranjos and the Giralda have been preserved.

Vista del edificio completo de la iglesia colegial del divino salvador, con una hilera de árboles en la puerta de entrada
Iglesia Colegial del Divino Salvador

In Seville, a medieval church was built on top of a former caliphal mosque (formerly a Roman basilica), which today still has its courtyard with orange trees (Patio de los Naranjos).

Capillita san josé
Little Chapel of Saint Joseph

Located in Seville, the construction of the Chapel of San José was promoted by the corporation of carpenters who, after meeting in the town hall, decided in 1746 to extend the old temple by building a new, much deeper, main chapel, providing it with a front transept, a dressing room and a storeroom.

Vista interior de la basílica del santísimo cristo de la expiración
Minor Basilica of the Holy Christ of the Expiration

The Minor Basilica of the Holy Christ of the Expiration, located in the popular Triana area in Seville, is the headquarters of the Cachorro Brotherhood , which had its origin in the old Chapel of the Patronage at the end of the 17th century.

Vista desde el campo de la Iglesia de San Juan Bautista
San Juan Bautista Parish Church

The Mudejar-style Church, named after the town’s patron saint, also has Gothic and Renaissance art elements. It was built over an ancient mosque destroyed by an earthquake in the fourteenth century. The old presbytery has been preserved from its initial construction. 

Ermita de Nuestra Señora del Carmen
Nuestra Señora del Carmen Chapel

The chapel was once known as San Ginés. It is located on the avenue of the same name, probably being a primitive Mudejar work, to which the external walls of the main chapel, which was totally renovated in the 18th century, would have belonged.

Iglesia de la Concepción
Church of La Concepción

The ensemble is a 17th century baroque building commissioned by Alvaro de Castilla in 1614 as a convent and hospital, to which the church is attached.