The adaptation of Francisco Guerrero’s hymn Pange lingua in Seville Cathedral during the 17th century …
Confraternities at the convent of Nuestra Señora de Belén in Granada
From at least 1630, the confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament in the church of San …
Génova, third stage of Francisco Guerrero's journey to Jerusalem (1588).
The description of a night of revelry in the prison of Seville, at the end of the 16th century, with food, music and sex, shows the laxity of customs in …
The testimony of Cristóbal de Chaves, in his Relación de las cosas de las cárcel de Sevilla y su trato, brings us closer to the sounds of popular music that …
Miguel de Cervantes, in El Celoso extremeño, becomes a literary witness to the musical enthusiasm of Seville's black ethnic minority. In this work, he offers us a valuable testimony of their …
The remodelling in 1574 of the Alameda de Hércules in Seville made it a place for recreation and strolling for the citizens, especially in summer, enlivened by a group of …
At the beginning of his play Lo cierto por lo dudoso, Lope de Vega takes us to the night of San Juan, in the Alameda in Seville, a space that …
On 20 July 1515, Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Mondéjar and 2nd Count of Tendilla (1440-1515), died in the Alhambra at the age of 74. His mortal remains …