These churches are some of the oldest and most historic structures in Seville. Religion has deeply influenced the city’s history, and many offer public mass and ceremonies you can attend throughout the year.
The second most important church in Seville after the Cathedral itself, this Church rests on the site of both a basilica and a mosque and showcases a beautifully gilded wooden design that makes it stand out from the rest of the city.
Built in the year 1276, this is the oldest church standing in Seville. Distinguishable by its impressive tower, the church is a historic visit while exploring the beautiful barrio of Triana.
Holding an impressive dome interior with remarkable art from the 17th century, a beautiful yet modest in size chapel, as well as the crypts, this Baroque style church is unique and popular amongst the churches of Seville.
As one of the most famous and important images and altars in all of Andalusia, the Virgin of the Macarena is kept and revered in the center of the Basilica and carried throughout the streets of Seville during the Easter week.
This Basilica is the home of the Virgin of Hope of Triana, another one of the city’s most revered images. The church is a major center of devotion in the Triana neighborhood, especially during the celebrations of Semana Santa.
A Basílica housing the powerful image of Jesus of the Great Power during his Passion, which is displayed and carried through the streets during Semana Santa. Additionally, the church has an impressive altar and traditional baroque dome structure.
From the outside it looks like a simple church in the old Jewish quarter, but inside the ceiling bursts with Baroque plasterwork.
The building began as one of the synagogues of medieval Seville and became a church at the end of the 14th century; its present interior dates from the 1660s, when Murillo also painted for it. Look for the slender pink marble columns and the Last Supper attributed to him.
On Calle Castilla, in the heart of Triana, this 20th-century basilica with its neo-Mudéjar tower guards one of the most moving images of Holy Week: the Christ of the Expiration, carved by Francisco Antonio Gijón in 1682.
Everyone calls it El Cachorro, after a young Triana gypsy who, legend says, inspired the sculptor. Seeing it up close, caught at the instant of death, explains why the whole neighbourhood turns out when it crosses the river on Good Friday.
Two convents show the quieter, cloistered side of the city.
Santa Paula, founded in the 15th century and still home to Hieronymite nuns, has a church doorway decorated with glazed Renaissance tiles, a small museum and a turn where the nuns sell their homemade jams and sweets.
Santa Clara, near the Alameda, no longer has nuns: it is now a cultural space with a peaceful cloister and the Gothic Tower of Don Fadrique, one of the oldest buildings in the city.
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