Plaza Nueva

This guide to Plaza Nueva in Seville starts underground, with a 1981 metro dig that struck a buried hull and an ancient iron anchor eleven meters below the square. It traces how this ground was once open water, a lagoon that silted up through the Middle Ages, and how a Franciscan convent later rose and fell here before the square took its place. A bronze king on horseback, Ferdinand the Third, has stood at its center since 1924.