Alcazar

It's easy to be fooled into thinking this is a Moorish palace, some of the rooms and courtyards seem to come straight from the Alhambra. Most of them were actually built - by Moorish workmen it's true - for King Pedro the Cruel of Castile in the 1360's who, with his mistress Maria de Padilla, lived in and ruled from the Alcazar. Pedro embarked upon a complete rebuilding of the palace, employing workmen from Granada and utilising fragments of earlier Moorish buildings in Seville, Cordoba and Valencia.  

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Fine Arts Museum

The Fine Arts Museum of Seville since 1839, located in the former convent of the Merced Calzada at the Plaza del Museo. Construction works of the convent started in 1602. It is an example of Andalusian mannerism of the 17th century, designed around three Patios and a large stairway. The Fine Arts museum of Seville was founded as a Museum of Paintings in 1835. It opened its doors to the public in 1841 with the works from closed down convents and monasteries. Today it is one of the best museums of fine arts in Spain. The museum's impressive collection of Spanish art extends from the medieval to the modern, focusing on the work of Seville School artists such as Francisco de Zurbarán, Juan de Valdés Leal and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo.  

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Cathedral of Seville

The Cathedral of Seville, also known as Catedral de Santa María de la Sede (Cathedral of Saint Mary of the See) is the cathedral of the city of Seville in Andalucia. It is claimed by some to be the largest Gothic cathedral and the fourth largest Christian church in the world. Built between 1402 and 1506, Sevilla's spectacular gothic cathedral is the biggest- although the English and the Italians will argue otherwise- cathedral in the world. Its highlight, La Giralda, is a soaring bell tower still boasting the elaborate architecture and decoration typical of its Moorish roots. Since this former minaret of a mosque that once occupied the site was spared destruction, today visitors can still venture up the series of ramps for an unbeatable panorama of Sevilla.  

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