Iglesias de Sevilla

The churches of Seville are a fixed companion on the walks that Sevillians and visitors take through the city. The presence of these buildings and their authentic imbrication in some areas force the walker and the connoisseur of the city to keep in mind a whole set of perceptions and characteristics totally linked to the emotional complex that Seville transmits. All the religious temples, in their different categories, put pillars on the history, art, architecture, urbanism, economy and social backbone of the city, in addition to establishing clues about the character of their customs, festivities, religiosity and idiosyncrasy. The churches of Seville, like the convents in other times, draw a special map, with their own specific routes, until they offer, to a large extent, an x-ray of the city. This book is the result of exhaustive work by its author, Manuel Jesús Roldán, who, aware of the contingencies of each time, has dared to make a detailed record of all the churches in Seville, going from the most obvious data to their most hidden corners, and offering an authentic inventory of the city.