Iglesia de Santa Marina
Gothic-Mudejar parish church gutted by fire in nineteen thirty-six and left in ruins for forty-five years.
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This guide to the Iglesia de Santa Marina in Seville centers on July 18, 1936, when anticlerical crowds set fire to the thirteenth-century church during the first chaotic days of the Spanish Civil War, gutting its altarpieces and roof. It traces the building's earlier survival of an earthquake and older fires back to its founding soon after Ferdinand the Third took the city, then follows the stalled repair attempts of the 1940s and 1960s. Look up at the arches and the patched brickwork as you stand beneath them.
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