Plaza del Cabildo

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Plaza del Cabildo
Calle Almirantazgo, El Arenal
Seville, September 2022

“The Plaza del Cabildo is a small semicircular square in the centre of Seville, located in the Arenal neighbourhood, next to the Cathedral of Seville. The square and the building itself were built on the site of the former college of San Miguel, owned by the Cabildo of the Cathedral, which is where the square got its current name of Plaza del Cabildo. But it was in the middle of the 20th century, around 1950, when the school was demolished. Today, only the façade facing the Avenida de la Constitución and some of the columns that were used in the square remain. The frescoed arcades on the ground floor are the work of the Sevillian painter José Palomar, and are set on marble columns. It is also a building designed by the architect Joaquín Barquín Barrón, in which Seville’s Moorish past is present, as the straight side of the square is occupied by a piece of the Almohad interior wall built in 1184, which came from the Alcazaba.” (Cabildo Square, OWAY Tours)