Casa de Salinas
Sixteenth-century merchant's mansion of marble courtyards and Mudejar plasterwork, still a family home.
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This guide to Casa de Salinas in Seville traces the Carrara marble raised here in the 1570s back to Baltasar de Jaen, a merchant from a family that traded ships, warehouses and harvests rather than titles, in the era when Seville held the sole Spanish port licensed to trade with the Americas. You'll hear how he locked the property into an entailed estate meant to keep it in the family for centuries, and what happened when that arrangement finally dissolved in 1843. The narration follows the house through the trading dynasties and tenants who passed through it afterward, including a stint hosting a Masonic lodge.
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