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Santa Cruz, is the primary tourist neighborhood of Seville, Spain, and the former Jewish quarter of the medieval city. Santa Cruz is bordered by the Jardines de Murillo, the Real Alcázar, Calle Mateos Gago, and Calle Santa María La Blanca/San José.
The Jewish quarter of Seville, one of the largest Jewish communities of the Iberian peninsula, virtually disappeared because of murders and forced mass conversions. [67] Thereafter the converso community of new Christian converts inherited the condition of scapegoat endured by their forebears.
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.
The Casco Antiguo (Spanish: Ancient Shell) is the old quarter of Seville, in the centre of the city on the east bank of the Guadalquivir river. Principal tourist attractions are located here, such as the cathedral, the Alcázar, the Torre del Oro, the City Hall, the Palace of San Telmo, the Archivo General de Indias and the Metropol Parasol.
The Alcázar of Seville, officially called Royal Alcázar of Seville (Spanish: Real Alcázar de Sevilla or Reales Alcázares de Sevilla), [1] is a historic royal palace in Seville, Spain. It was formerly the site of the Islamic-era citadel of the city, begun in the 10th century and then developed into a larger palace complex by the Abbadid ...
Susana Ben Susón, nicknamed La Susona, was a young Jewish convert from Seville and features in a legend. She was the daughter of don Diego Susón a Jewish convert . Jews were an oppressed minority in Seville in the late Middle Ages and in 1391 a violent pogrom in the Jewish quarter (la Judería) reduced the Jewish population of 500 families by ...
"At this time Seville is said to have contained 7000 Jewish families. Of the three large synagogues existing in the city two were transformed into churches. In all the towns throughout the archbishopric, as in Alcalá de Guadeira, Écija, Cazalla, and in Fregenal de la Sierra, the Jews were robbed and slain.
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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