Art sights in Seville
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Basílica de la Macarena
Basílica de La Macarena, off Calle San Luis, is the home of Seville’s most revered Virgin and will give you a whiff of the fervour inspired by Semana Santa. The Virgen de la EsperanzaMacarena (Macarena Virgin of Hope), a magnificent statue adorned with a golden crown, lavish vestments, and five diamond-and-emerald brooches donated by a famous 20th-century matador, Joselito El Gallo, stands in splendour behind the main altarpiece. La Macarena, as she is commonly known, is the patron of bullfighters and Seville’s supreme representation of the grieving, yet hopeful, mother of Christ. The power of this fragile, beautiful statue is most evident in the wee hours of the mad…
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Iglesia de la Magdalena
One of Seville's outstanding baroque churches, the Iglesia de la Magdalena was built between 1691 and 1709. Two paintings by Zurbarán hang in the Capilla Sacramental (the first chapel on the right from the entrance), and a fine 1612 Crucifixion sculpture, El Cristo del Calvario (The Christ of Calvary) by Francisco de Ocampo, is in the chapel to the right of the main altar.
The church is the home of the Quinta Angustia brotherhood, whose 17th-century Descendimiento tableau, showing the taking down of Jesus from the cross, is carried through Seville's streets during Semana Santa. This can usually be seen in the chapel on the left as you enter the church: the Christ is attr…
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Sacristía de los Cálices
South of the Capilla Mayor are rooms containing many of the cathedral's art treasures. The westernmost of these is the Sacristía de los Cálices, where Goya's 1817 painting of the Seville martyrs Santas Justa y Rufina (potter sisters who died at the hands of the Romans in AD 287) hangs above the altar. A lion licks Rufina's feet, as reputedly happened when she was thrown to the said beasts during her travails.
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Basílica de Jesús del Gran Poder
The Basílica de Jesús del Gran Poder, north of Seville's centre, houses some of the famous Semana Santa images.
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