We comment monthly a book that will take you to Seville, whether if you are on your couch, or maybe in your way to Seville!!
Today “Revenge in Seville”, by Matilde Asensi. It is the second volume of the trilogy of Martin Silver Eye. I will not tell anything to not spoil the book’s plot. I will only...
FINE ARTS MUSEUM OF SEVILLE: The building where the museum is located was founded as a Museum in 1835. It's located at Plaza of the Museum, where was the Convent of the Merced Calzada. The seventeenth century building began to be a museum of Fine Arts in 1841, but had three major interventions...
In the Middle Ages, there was a cultural revolution that is also known as the Green Revolution of Al-Andalus. The Arabs and Berbers who arrived in 711, who wanted to reach the confines of the then known world, united their knowledge (from their cultures and from all the positive things they found...
The term sambenito is a shorthand for Saco Bendito, a coarse cloth garment worn by penitents in the Middle Ages for acts of public penance (which would later lead to the tunics of the Nazarenes of Holy Week). The Inquisition adopts this clothing, the blessed sack, and uses it to distinguish and...
This novel aims to transfer the reader to Seville in the 18th century, through the life of Julia de Haro, León, and her descendants, in a family saga that leaves behind a game of Chess that began five centuries earlier, at the time of La Conquista, between Alfonso X the Wise, son of King Fernando...
Don Juan Tenorio, José Zorrilla, 1844.
One of the books that, together with 'El Burlador de Sevilla', contemplate the world-famous myth of Don Juan, the famous Casanova of the city of Seville.
His fame has reached the point of even using the term 'Don Juan' to refer to a womanizing man.
Despite...
