The Santa Cruz Photo: The Santa Cruz

The old Jewish quarter of Santa Cruz is the most picturesque corner of the city. This is a charming maze of narrow streets with whitewashed houses and tiny squares. Once there was a Jewish ghetto. Here are the houses, hotels, restaurants, souvenir shops.

Street Callejón del Agua is famous for its houses with green patios (courtyards). Its name means "water" – here was the aqueduct supplying water to the Alcazar.

The hospital de Los Venerables, a former refuge for priests, was built in the XVII century. Famous for its magnificent Baroque Church with richly painted walls.

The famous painter Murillo, lived all his life in Seville, was buried in the Church that once used to stand on the square in Santa Cruz. Now here is a huge patterned iron cross.

In Plaza del Triunfo it should be a column in Baroque style in honor of the rescue of earthquake of 1755. It is decorated with a statue of the virgin Mary.

In the building of the Archives of India (sixteenth century) was located before commodity exchange. And now here are the documents related to the Spanish colonization of America.

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