History of the Hospital de los Venerables, located in the capital of Andalusia - Seville, began in the 17th century. It was then that the religious Brotherhood of Silence was founded a home for sick and elderly priests, rebuilt later in hospital. The hospital is housed, have today in the area of ​​Santa Cruz, in Plaza de los Venerables, and was built in the 17th century Baroque architect Juan Dominguez and the famous Leonardo de Figueroa.

In 1689 the building was completed the church dedicated to Saint Fernando. The church has one nave, the central altar is decorated with paintings of Valdes Leal and his son Lucas Valdes. The ceiling and walls of the church and painted by Lucas Valdes. Near the altar of the relief figures of St. Juan Batista and St. Juan Evangelista made Martinez Montanes.

Another feature of the hospital building is its beautiful, typical Andalusian patio, planted with green trees and surrounded by a two-story gallery.

By 1805 the hospital went into decline, the Brotherhood was virtually no means to support her. In 1840, an attempt was made to select a building owned by the brotherhood for the purpose of placing a textile factory here, but after numerous complaints in 1848 by order of King Hospital was returned to its owners.

Since 1991, in a building Hospital de los Venerables Seville Cultural Fund is that in the period from 1987 to 1991 held a repair and restoration of the premises of the hospital. Today it often hosts exhibitions, concerts, conferences and seminars devoted to art.