Palace of the Countess of Lebrija

This guide to the Palace of the Countess of Lebrija in Seville starts with a stretch of Roman mosaic about to be plowed under in a farmer's field outside the city, and the countess who bought the land to stop it. You'll hear how she set masons and tile-setters to a strange, painstaking job, and how that rescue became a thirteen-year habit as she remade a sixteenth-century house around fragments pulled from the ruins of Italica. It follows tradesmen solving a puzzle nobody had drawn a picture of first, and the woman who became the first to sit on Seville's Academy of Fine Arts while directing them.