Tourist attraction
Archivo de Indias
Av. de la Constitución, s/n, Casco Antiguo, 41004 Sevilla
Renaissance merchants' hall turned imperial archive, holding eighty million pages on the Spanish Americas.
This guide to the Archivo de Indias in Seville opens with Miguel de Cervantes, broke and maimed from Lepanto, writing to the Council of the Indies in 1590 to beg for one of four posts in the Americas. It follows the building's own turn from a Renaissance merchants' exchange designed by Juan de Herrera into an imperial filing system holding millions of pages on Spain's American empire, Cervantes's rejected letter somewhere inside.
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