Plaza de Doña Elvira

This guide to Plaza de Doña Elvira in Seville uncovers the vanished Corral de Doña Elvira, one of three open-air playhouses that once packed these narrow streets from the 1570s, and the notarial-archive discovery that upended the accepted timeline of the city's first covered theater. You'll hear how Sevillians favored it above its rivals and how a historian's dig through centuries-old contracts overturned a settled piece of Spanish theater history. Nothing of the corral survives above ground; today's orange trees and ceramic benches only arrived in the early 1900s.