Chapel of San José

This guide to the Chapel of San José in Seville follows a guild of carpenters who, in the eighteenth century, defied the architects' legal monopoly to design and build their own chapel on a narrow street off Sierpes. You'll hear about the master builders Pedro Romero and Esteban Paredes, the decades-long construction across two building campaigns, and the dispute over who really carved its soaring altarpiece. The guild had already been meeting under the same roof since the fifteen hundreds before any of that construction began.