Iglesia Colegial del Divino Salvador
Baroque church over a mosque and Roman forum, its orange-tree courtyard ringed by tapas bars.
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This guide to the Iglesia Colegial del Divino Salvador in Seville opens with an engineer's blunt verdict on why the brand-new church collapsed in 1679, and how Leonardo de Figueroa rebuilt it more slowly, finishing in 1712. It traces the ground beneath the building back through a ninth-century mosque's ablution court and the medieval bread market that once stood behind it. Listen for what the streets nearby, Plaza del Pan among them, still carry in their name.
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