Editing Seville (section)

=== Civic buildings and other monuments ===
[[File:Hôtel Ville - Séville (ES61) - 2023-04-24 - 14.jpg|left|thumb|The 16th-century Plateresque façade of the [[Seville City Hall|City Hall]]]]
The [[Seville City Hall|City Hall]] (''Ayuntamiento'') was begun by architect [[Diego de Riaño]], who worked on it between 1527 and 1534 and designed the eastern façade on ''Plaza de San Francisco'', a highlight of the Plateresque style.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Barteet |first=C. Cody |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TQWdDwAAQBAJ&dq=plateresque+city+hall+seville&pg=PT112 |title=Architectural Rhetoric and the Iconography of Authority in Colonial Mexico: The Casa de Montejo |publisher=Routledge |year=2019 |isbn=978-0-429-99904-8 |pages=114–117 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Navarro Rivas-2005">{{Cite book |last1=Navarro Rivas |first1=Juan Pablo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vb9vciGX7esC |title=Seville 360º |last2=Ramírez Idígoras |first2=Consuelo |publisher=Maratania |year=2005 |isbn=84-932274-8-X |pages=40–44 |language=es, en}}</ref> He was succeeded by other architects, including [[Hernán Ruiz II|Hernan Ruiz II]] after 1560, who added a double-arched [[loggia]] on the western façade.<ref name="Navarro Rivas-2005" /> The Royal Prison originally stood nearby, where Cervantes was imprisoned and where it is believed he was inspired to write ''[[Don Quixote]]''.<ref name="Navarro Rivas-2005" /> In 1840, the nearby Convent of San Francisco was demolished and replaced by the present-day ''Plaza Nueva'' in 1854. After this, the city hall's was partly remodeled by Demetrio de los Ríos and Balbino Marrón. It was given a new western façade in [[Neoclassical architecture|Neoclassical]] style, completed in 1867.<ref name="Navarro Rivas-2005" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Ayuntamiento de Sevilla |url=https://www.andalucia.org/en/sevilla-cultural-tourism-ayuntamiento-de-sevilla |access-date=3 June 2023 |website=Andalucia.org |language=en-US}}</ref>

The General Archive of the Indies (''Archivo General de Indias''), located between the Cathedral and the Alcázar, is the repository of valuable archival documents relating to the Spanish Empire in the Americas and the Philippines up to 1760.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Riobó |first=Carlos |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E8BKBAAAQBAJ&dq=seville+archive+herrera&pg=PA57 |title=Sub-versions of the Archive: Manuel Puig's and Severo Sarduy's Alternative Identities |publisher=Bucknell University Press |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-61148-037-5 |page=57 |language=en}}</ref> The building itself was designed in a [[Spanish Renaissance architecture|Spanish Renaissance style]] in 1572 by [[Juan de Herrera]] to house the merchants' guild. Construction began in the 1580s and was not finished until 1646. The building was converted into the new Archive of the Indies in 1785.<ref name="Hamann-2022">{{Cite book |last=Hamann |first=Byron Ellsworth |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Wp2EAAAQBAJ&dq=seville+General+Archive+of+the+Indies+herrera&pg=PA262 |title=The Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture, and the Archive of the Indies, 1781–1844 |publisher=Getty Publications |year=2022 |isbn=978-1-60606-773-4 |pages=128–134 |language=en}}</ref>
[[File:Palacio de San Telmo (portada).jpg|thumb|The 18th-century Baroque portal of the ''[[Palacio de San Telmo]]'']]
The ''[[Palacio de San Telmo]]'' was originally a naval college established in 1671. Between 1722 and 1735 the building was completed by Leonardo de Figueroa and his son Matías, who designed its present-day façade, one of the most important monuments of Baroque architecture in Andalusia.<ref name="Konemann-2013" /> The building now serves as the seat for the [[Andalusian Autonomous Government]].<ref>The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin. [https://www.tititudorancea.com/z/tourist_attractions_in_seville_spain.htm Tourist Attractions in Seville, Spain]. Retrieved 24 August 2020.</ref>

The [[Royal Tobacco Factory]] (''Real Fábrica de Tabacos''), located near the Palacio de San Telmo, was built between 1728 and 1771. It was designed in a Baroque style by Sebastian van der Borcht.<ref name="Konemann-2013" /> It replaced an earlier [[tobacco]] factory built in 1687, which in turn had replaced Seville's first tobacco factory, San Pedro, which opened in a former women's penitentiary in 1620.<ref name="Gately-2007">{{Cite book |last=Gately |first=Iain |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x41jVocj05EC&dq=first+tobacco+factory+seville&pg=PA80 |title=Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization |publisher=Grove Press |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-8021-9848-8 |pages=80, 115–116 |language=en}}</ref> Upon completion, the new factory was the largest industrial building in the world and included its own chapel and its own prison, and operated under its own laws.<ref name="Gately-2007" />

The city's [[bullring]], the [[Maestranza (Seville)|Real Maestranza]], was designed in 1761 by Vicente San Martin. Its Baroque façade was completed in 1787 but the rest of the building was only completed in 1881.<ref name="Navarro Rivas-2005e">{{Cite book |last1=Navarro Rivas |first1=Juan Pablo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vb9vciGX7esC |title=Seville 360º |last2=Ramírez Idígoras |first2=Consuelo |publisher=Maratania |year=2005 |isbn=84-932274-8-X |page=127 |language=es, en}}</ref> The venue can accommodate 14,000 spectators.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Watson |first=Fiona Flores |date=6 December 2011 |title=Plaza de Toros de la Maestranza |url=https://www.andalucia.com/cities/seville/bullring.htm |access-date=3 June 2023 |website=Andalucia.com |language=en}}</ref>

The Metropol Parasol, in ''La Encarnación'' square, is the world's largest wooden structure.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://inhabitat.com/metropol-parasol-the-worlds-largest-wooden-structure-opens-in-seville/ |title=Metropol Parasol: The World's Largest Wooden Structure Opens in Seville&#124; Inhabitat – Green Design Will Save the World |website=Inhabitat.com |date=24 April 2011 |access-date=29 February 2012}}</ref> A monumental umbrella-like building designed by the German architect [[Jürgen Mayer (architect)|Jürgen Mayer]], finished in 2011. This modern architecture structure houses the central market and an underground archaeological complex. The terrace roof is a city viewpoint.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sevilla21.com/urbanismo/ordenacionurbana.php?id=1 |title=Ordenación Urbana – Metropol Parasol |website=Sevilla21.com |access-date=10 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511210059/http://www.sevilla21.com/urbanismo/ordenacionurbana.php?id=1 |archive-date=11 May 2011 }}</ref>