Antiquarium

This guide to the Antiquarium in Seville starts in 2005, when crews broke ground on what was meant to be a parking garage under Plaza de la Encarnacion, only to strike Roman mosaic floors, a fish-salting works and the walls of a twelfth-century Almohad house. You'll hear how planners had tried to build on this same spot once before and abandoned it for the same reason, and how a 2007 engineering warning sent architect Jurgen Mayer H. back to the drawing board for nearly two years. The narration traces the back-and-forth between what the city wanted to build and what kept surfacing beneath it.