Quarter of Santa Cruz
   Photos: Santa Cruz Quarter

Old Jewish Quarter of Santa Cruz - the most picturesque corner of the city. This charming maze of narrow streets with whitewashed houses and tiny squares. Once there was a Jewish ghetto. This is the place houses, hotels, restaurants, souvenir shops.

The street Callejón del Agua is famous for its houses with green patios (courtyards). Its name means "water" - there was an aqueduct to supply water to the Alcazar.

Ospital de los Venerables, a former haven for priests, was built in the XVII century. Famous for its magnificent baroque church with richly painted walls.

The famous painter Murillo, who has lived all his life in Seville, was buried in the church once stood on the square of Santa Cruz. Now there is a huge patterned iron cross.

In the Plaza del Triunfo is a column in the Baroque style in honor of saving the city during the 1755 earthquake. It is decorated with a statue of the Virgin Mary.

The building of the Archives of India (XVI century) was once a commodity exchange. And now here are documents related to the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

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