Plaza del Salvador
Pedestrian square framed by a Baroque church, built over a razed medieval mosque and market.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Plaza del Salvador in Seville follows a single family candle shop that has sold wax on this square since 1845, tracing the plaza's earlier life as a medieval market of shoemakers and rope-makers built against the mosque that once stood where the Baroque church now stands. It follows how the shop's storefront opened in 1927 and grew into a workshop supplying religious brotherhoods across Andalusia.
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