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<em>Puerta de Carmona in Seville</em>. Jenaro Pérez Villaamil. Coloured lithograph from <em>España artística y monumental</em>, tomo II (1844)
From Barcelona to Seville, with a stopover at Montserrat. The seventeenth and final stage of Francisco Guerrero’s Journey from Jerusalem (1589)

During the final stage of their return journey from Jerusalem, Francisco Guerrero and his disciple …

May 20, 2026
Cathedral of Sevilla.
Documents about Tomás Luis de Victoria in the cathedral of Sevilla (1578-1724)

The typology of transcribed documents from the Cathedral of Seville that speak of Tomás Luis …

May 16, 2026
<em>An old view of Vitoria</em>. Benito de Casas
A theatrical performance at the corral de comedias of the Alahóndiga in Vitoria (1679)

In 1691, Madame d’Aulnoy published her Relation du voyage d’Espagne in Paris, a controversial text …

May 11, 2026
The altarpiece of the Heads of Saints Peter and Paul. Córdoba Cathedral
The foundation, burials and endowments of the Altar of Las cabezas de San Pedro y San Pablo (15th century)

According to the will of Juan de Rojas, the altar of Las cabezas de San …

May 10, 2026

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Organ teaching in Seville’s domestic space (1647–1649)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Nov. 18, 2017

The apprenticeship contract drawn up in 1647 between the organist Pedro de Cátedra Fajardo, a resident of the Seville parish of Santa María Magdalena, and Pedro de León, father of …

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Music education and domestic music in Granada (c. 1620)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Nov. 15, 2017

The biographical profile of Adriana del Espíritu Santo offers us an interesting example of the musical education of the young women of the Granada oligarchy and of the parties that …

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Burying a Muslim in the cemetery (maqbara) of Bāb Ilbīra (1494)

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Nov. 5, 2017

The German traveller Hieronymus Münzer, in his Journey through Spain and Portugal (1494-95), gives us an account of the burial ceremony he witnessed on his visit to the Muslim cemetery …

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Public concerts in the bullring of Sevilla

Juan Ruiz Jiménez
Oct. 23, 2017

In the second half of the 18th century, the Real Maestranza of Seville organized a series of public concerts in the bullring that seem to fade away with the first …

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