Sevilla Trip Overview
This route describes the port activity that took place in the Triana and Arenal neighborhoods, which concentrated the necessary infrastructure to make trips to the Indies possible at the time of the Discoveries, as well as taking a walk along the Guadalquivir River.
We will also be able to know the role that the Casa de la Contratación had, as an organization that managed trade with the New World, the place where it was found and the role of Américo Vespucio within this house.
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* Duration: 2 hours
* Starts: Sevilla, Spain
* Trip Category: Cultural & Theme Tours >> Cultural Tours
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This route describes the port activity that took place in the Triana and Arenal neighborhoods, which concentrated the necessary infrastructure to make trips to the Indies possible at the time of the Discoveries, as well as taking a walk along the Guadalquivir River.
We will also be able to know the role that the Casa de la Contratación had, as an organization that managed trade with the New World, the place where it was found and the role of Américo Vespucio within this house.
Itinerary
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Stop At: Puente de San Telmo, Seville Spain
On the foundations of this bridge, is Mile 0, the place from where Fernando de Magallanes departed with five ships looking for the islands of spices, the Moluccas. This trip would end 3 years later, making the first round the world, with which it would be shown that the earth was round.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Iglesia de Santa Ana, Pelay Correa, s/n, Seville Spain
This church was built by King Alfonso X thanks to the intercession of the Virgin of Santa Ana for the cure of the disease he suffered in the eyes. This church contains in its interior a painting with Saints Justa and Rufina where we can see the first crane that existed in the Port of Seville.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Río Guadalquivir, 41130, Sevilla, Spain
The Guadalquivir River witnessed the journeys that began at the time of the Discoveries. Today it is the fifth longest river in Spain.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Museo Del Castillo De San Jorge, Plaza del Altozano s/n, Mercado de Abastos de Triana, 411010 Seville Spain
This castle that had in its interior the seat of the Court of the Holy Office whose activity was in full swing during the trips to unknown lands.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Reales Atarazanas, C. Temprado, 1, 41001 Sevilla, Spain
The shipyards were the shipyards where the ships were built, constituting a naval property (the largest known in the late Middle Ages) dependent on the Crown.
Duration: 10 minutes
Stop At: Royal Mint of Seville, C. Santander, 41001 Sevilla, Spain
In this building the metal that came from the Indies was melted and supervised (in the royal hornazas, where the furnaces were), converted into coins and then distributed throughout Europe. This house hired two hundred people for this function. The house was found in a courtyard where we currently find the La Fundición Theater in honor of the function that the building once had.
Duration: 15 minutes
Stop At: Torre del Oro, Paseo de Cristobal Colon Near Puente de San Telmo, 41001 Seville Spain
It is a building that was built as an albarrana tower in the time of the Almohads to protect the city from attack by pirates, later being used as a customs building and controlling all the ships that entered and left the port area.
Duration: 15 minutes
