History

Many different cultures have been present in the history of Sevilla. His legacy has shaped over centuries the cultural, artistic and monumental that we admire in its streets and its museums. The dark origins have led to the legends attributed to Hercules Foundation Sevilla. If we approach the Ancient History of Sevilla we move to the Archaeological Museum housed in a former ward of the Iberoamerican Exhibition of 1929, building on its own and deserves a visit. There we will find the remains of peoples across the Mediterranean, representing their distant gods and the Treasury sample Carambolo Oriental influence assimilated by those primitive "Seville".
 The outskirts of Seville (Alcalá del Río) was the scene of the final battle that pitted Romans and Carthaginians (206 BC) and the place of the founding of the first Roman colony, Italic, named in memory of the origin of its founders. Julius Caesar (45 BC) makes the Seville in full Roman citizens, calling Julia Romula Hispalis city. While in Seville was great and sumptuous temples, circuses ... and amphitheaters .... all gone already noted in the seventeenth century Rodrigo Caro. One more reason to visit the Archaeological Museum where the Roman stage is superbly represented with findings from Italica.

The characters of the shield of the city, San Leandro and San Isidoro that both sides accompanying the conquering king evoke the Visigothic period overshadowed by the splendor of Islamic Seville would happen immediately after (712).
It will be in the Almohad period (mid-twelfth century) when Isbiliya reached its peak. It built the Great Mosque, whose minaret is a symbol of the city and that following his shot Renaissance topped by a weather vane starts rotating called Giralda.
The city passed to the Crown of Castile by King Fernando III Santo conquest in 1248. The city sees converted their mosques into places of Christian worship and the same fate befell the Grand Mosque. But century and a half after the dilapidated state of the same take the Ecclesiastical Council makes the decision to demolish it and build on that very spot the Cathedral, Sevilla undisputed symbol of the Christian. In the medieval period it is necessary to remind the King D. Peter in the old walled Islamic Alcazar builds a Mudejar Palace (XIV century).

It will be in the sixteenth century when Sevilla after the discovery of America to become the Puerto de Indias to monopolize trade with the New World. The House of Trade will be based in the Palaces and traders will build the Casa Lonja, which centuries later become Archivo de Indias. He built many houses, palace and an important civil building the Hospital of the Five Wounds, now a Parliament of Andalusia.
The seventeenth century universal artistic figures shine but economically it is regrettable deviation American progressive trade to Cadiz. The Passion Brotherhoods who drew his images wildly into the street, are regulated creating the Official: route must for all where they should march in an order determined by seniority. It is creating Holy Week together with the deep religiosity results in figures like Montanes, Murillo, Zurbarán and Valdés Leal whose works are in the Museum of Fine Arts and distributed by various parishes. Important religious buildings were built: the church of Charity, the Savior and the impressive St. Louis of the French. In all these actions is present Leonardo de Figueroa, Baroque greatest figure in Sevilla
The eighteenth century know the construction of a new tobacco factory, industrial building stage of the adventures of Carmen will be the world famous Cigar. Another scene of the same work also begins to build but not completed until the following century the Plaza de Toros de la Real Maestranza.
The nineteenth-century Romanticism makes Sevilla in an exotic destination for those pioneers of the trip. Some were good artists and have made notes of a city that still had intact walls that eventually fell down to facilitate communications between the intramural and extramural increasingly widespread. Iron architecture has two representations in Seville force the first bridge over the Guadalquivir River Bridge Triana Bridge inspired Carrousel de Paris and the Ships of Barranco.

The twentieth century begins with the hope of preparing an exhibition that will be postponed for various reasons, celebrating the final sample in 1929. The American Exhibition we left the Plaza of Spain, the Plaza de America and flags of the participating countries in different styles that evoke their native pre-Columbian cultures. The century also end up holding another exhibition Expo 92, which commemorated the V Centenary of the Discovery and which resulted from the planning point of view not only the incorporation of Cartuja Island but also the removal of two old stations railroad was a major obstacle in the internal communications of the city, the construction of Santa Justa, the high speed train, bypasses etc.

Many different cultures have been present in the history of Sevilla. His legacy has shaped over centuries the cultural, artistic and monumental that we admire in its streets and its museums. The dark origins have led to the legends attributed to Hercules Foundation Sevilla. If we approach the Ancient History of Sevilla we move to the Archaeological Museum housed in a former ward of the Iberoamerican Exhibition of 1929, building on its own and deserves a visit. There we will find the remains of peoples across the Mediterranean, representing their distant gods and the Treasury sample Carambolo Oriental influence assimilated by those primitive "Seville".