Iglesia de San Lorenzo, Sevilla
Gothic-Mudejar parish church on a plaza once famous for card games and children's street fights.
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This guide to the Iglesia de San Lorenzo in Seville follows the plaza's other life: for generations neighbors gathered against its Gothic-Mudéjar walls to play cards, dice and a game called joyuelo, while children later took over with running games and stone-throwing battles that spilled across the churchyard. It follows the parish's petition for an iron gate to fence the graveyard from the games. Picture the dice rattling below a tower already three centuries old.
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