Palace of the Countess of Lebrija
Sixteenth-century mansion whose floors are paved with genuine Roman mosaics rescued from a nearby ruined city.
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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.
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