Palacio Marqueses de la Algaba

This guide to the Palacio Marqueses de la Algaba in Seville opens with a voice security guards say they heard during a late-1990s restoration, then reaches back to Francisco de Guzman, the first Marquis, who turned a fortified fifteenth-century house into a garden palace. It follows the building through a plague outbreak in 1649 and a bread riot outside its walls, then its slide into tenement flats, a theatre, and an open-air cinema before restoration returned. Best heard standing in the restored courtyard, arcades on every side.