Knowra Seville Seville Seville is a city in southwestern Spain and the capital of Andalusia. Its position on the Guadalquivir made it a major Atlantic trading center in the early modern period.
Roman Hispalis : Hispalis was the Roman city that occupied the site of modern Seville. Its streets and river port began Seville’s long history as a regional center.
Guadalquivir : The Guadalquivir is a river in southern Spain that flows through Córdoba and Seville to the Atlantic Ocean. It connected Seville’s inland port with Atlantic shipping, though silting later limited access.
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo : Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was a Spanish Baroque painter born in Seville, known for religious works and genre scenes. His career reflects the city’s flourishing artistic culture in the seventeenth century.
Seville Cathedral : Seville Cathedral is a Gothic cathedral built on the site of the city’s former principal mosque. Its scale and Christian imagery express the wealth and authority of early modern Seville.
Columbian Exchange : The Columbian Exchange was the transfer of plants, animals, people, diseases, and ideas between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia after 1492. Seville became a European gateway for goods and information moving through this exchange.
Islamic Seville : Islamic Seville was a major city of al-Andalus, known as Ishbiliya, from the eighth to the thirteenth century. Its architecture and urban institutions shaped the city before the Christian conquest.
Casa de Contratación : The Casa de Contratación was a Spanish royal agency founded in 1503 to regulate trade and navigation with the Americas. Its Seville offices made the city the administrative hub of Spain’s American trade.
Diego Velázquez : Diego Velázquez was a Spanish painter born in Seville who became court painter to Philip IV. His early training and career began in Seville’s active painting community.
Giralda : The Giralda is the bell tower of Seville Cathedral, adapted from the minaret of the city’s Almohad mosque. It preserves a visible architectural link between Islamic and Christian Seville.
Silver mining in the Americas : Silver mining in the Americas was the extraction of large quantities of silver, especially in New Spain and Peru, under Spanish rule. American silver entered Spain through the commercial networks centered on Seville.
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