Monastery Santa Maria de las Cuevas
Former Carthusian monastery turned nineteenth-century ceramics factory, its brick kilns still rising beside the cloisters.
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This guide to the Monastery Santa Maria de las Cuevas in Seville opens on New Year's Day 1841, when a kiln first roared inside a cloister built for four centuries of Carthusian silence. It follows Charles Pickman, the young Liverpool merchant who bought the abandoned monastery after Spain seized church property, brought in English engineers and presses, and turned monks' quarters into a ceramics factory under his brand La Cartuja de Sevilla. Local Triana potters worked beside imported British craftsmen under the same brick chimney you can still see rising beside the old cloister.
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