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The district is an important commercial district of the city, where much of the regional capital's business takes place. It is the second focal point of the city, and is home to a number of important sites including Santa Justa, Seville's major train station, with high-speed links via the AVE to Madrid, Córdoba, and Cadiz.
Map of the neighbourhoods of the Casco Antiguo. It has twelve neighbourhoods. Of these, El Arenal on the riverfront was the port of Seville until the Guadalquivir silted up in the 17th century, [2] while the neighbouring Santa Cruz neighbourhood was a Jewish quarter until the Spanish Inquisition.
Santa Cruz is bordered by the Jardines de Murillo, the Real Alcázar, Calle Mateos Gago, and Calle Santa María La Blanca/San José. The neighbourhood is the location of many of Seville's oldest churches and is home to the Cathedral of Seville, including the converted minaret of the old Moorish mosque Giralda.
Triana is a neighbourhood and administrative district on the west bank of the Guadalquivir River in the city of Seville, Spain. Like other neighbourhoods that were historically separated from the main city, it was known as an arrabal. Triana is located on a peninsula between two branches of the Guadalquivir, narrowly linked to the mainland in ...
The mythological founder of the city is Hercules , commonly identified with the Phoenician god Melqart, who the myth says sailed through the Strait of Gibraltar to the Atlantic, and founded trading posts at the current sites of Cádiz and of Seville. [19] The original core of the city, in the neighbourhood of the present-day street, Cuesta del ...
Map of Spain with the province of Seville highlighted This is a list of the 105 municipalities in the province of Seville , within the autonomous community of Andalusia , Spain . Municipality
El Arenal is a neighbourhood in the historical centre of Seville, the Casco Antiguo. It lies on the east bank of the Guadalquivir river to the west of the old Jewish Quarter, Santa Cruz, and south of the neighbourhoods of Museo and Alfalfa. Its name comes from the sandy nature that this east bank of the river once used to have.
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