Tourist and holiday information for Spain including concerts, gigs & shows. Iglesia De Santa Ana in Seville Iglesia De Santa Ana in Seville, Spain
Pelay Correa, s/n, Seville, 41010
Tel. +3495427 382
Iglesia De Santa Ana in Seville is a popular tourist destination which is a church predominantly in Renaissance style with Mudejar-elements. Alfonso X the Wise constructed this church in 1280 in thanksgiving for the miraculous recovery of his sight and Archbishop Don Remondo consecrated it The Iglesia De Santa Ana in Seville is primarily made up of brick with a transition in style between Romantic and Gothic. The Church of Santa Ana is the older parochial church of Seville tracing back to XIII century. Alfonso X ordered the beginning of the works of construction in 1276. These concluded at the beginning of century XIV. It is of gothic-cistercien style although the bricks add a touch of Mudejar elements. The Church of Santa Ana underwent several reforms and the most significant is the one that took place after the earthquake of Lisbon in 1755.
The building has been transformed in the recent past to give back its original appearance. The Interior of Santa Ana church comprises of a host of fantastic and valuable works of art:
- the Greater Altarpiece and several sculptures of Nufro de Ortega and Nicholas de Jurate of around 1540,
- paintings in the Greater Altarpiece of Pedro de Campaña,
- the Stmo. Christ of Socorro de Andrés de Ocampo of 1620,
- burial Lauda of D. Iñigo Lopez of 1503 (it says the legend who assures marriage to the women who kick seven to him). Back
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