Real Parroquia de Santa María Magdalena, de Sevilla
Baroque parish church built over a medieval Dominican convent, its domes rich with blue and red tilework.
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This guide to the Real Parroquia de Santa María Magdalena in Seville follows Hernando Colón, the illegitimate son of Christopher Columbus, and the vast, meticulously catalogued library he left behind when he died in 1539. It traces how his books came to this Dominican convent in 1544, into cloisters that had hosted one of Castile's most powerful religious houses, and the site of the first Spanish Inquisition trial in 1481. Seville's cathedral chapter and the Dominicans spent years fighting in court over who should keep the strange archive.
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