Mercado de Triana
Nineteenth-century food market built over a former Inquisition fortress, with excavated ruins on view below.
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This guide to the Mercado de Triana in Seville opens with a 1983 discovery beneath a fish stall: the buried walls of the Castillo de San Jorge, the riverside fortress the Spanish Inquisition ran as its headquarters and jail from 1481 for close to a century and a half. It traces the castle's slow ruin, the market built over its rubble in the 1820s, and what excavation later brought back into view.
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