{"id":130,"date":"2020-05-27T18:04:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T18:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gavilansevilla.com\/en\/?p=130"},"modified":"2020-09-28T22:13:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T22:13:32","slug":"the-arenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gavilansevilla.com\/en\/the-arenal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arenal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The neighbourhood from where the boats left going to the Americas.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The neighbourhood of Arenal goes from the Puerta de Jerez in the south, to Reyes Catolicos Road to the North, with the river on one side and the Cathedral and the Alcazar of the other. Its name, sandbank in English, comes from how historically it was an area with sandy ground, although since a few centuries ago it has been converted into a bullfighting neighbourhood due to the construction of Bull Square.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Port of Seville<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Now the neighbourhood is filled with bars and restaurants which make reference to the bullfighting tradition, but before this Arenal was a neighbourhood of seafarers, of shipyards, now forgotten, of the Royal Customs Office through which passed the cargo coming from the New World and on the riverbank rested the boats who were coming from and going to the Americas. The Arenal was the port of Seville, the Port of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevertheless, very few traces of this remain. With the Mint in deplorable conditions, the Royal Shipyard abandoned (or in the very slow process of being renovated) and along with a large part of the Customs Office demolished to build the Treasury Delegation, Seville has forgotten that its most glorious past happened within this neighbourhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n