Palacio de San Telmo
Churrigueresque facade crowned with twelve sculpted portraits of illustrious historical figures.
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This guide to the Palacio de San Telmo in Seville centers on Antonio Susillo, the sculptor hired in 1895 by the Duchess of Montpensier to carve twelve stone portraits of illustrious Sevillians along its facade, from painters to a navigator's mentor. It reaches back to the palace's earlier life as a boarding school training orphaned sailors' sons into navigators, and to the baroque portal Pedro Duque y Cornejo carved a century before Susillo's gallery. Look up at the balustrade while you listen, at the twelve faces one of Spain's finest sculptors gave to his city.
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