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The ancient auction house of the city, the place where merchants met to do business with the New World<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Together with the Alcazar <\/a>and the Cathedral<\/a>, they form a perfect symbiosis, in the sense that each one represents one of the three powers: The political (Alcazar), the religious (Cathedral) and the economical (the Auction House or archives of the Americas). All are situated in the same place, creating something unique to the world.\u00a0It\u2019s not a coincidence that this combination has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage site. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Commerce with America<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It is not a coincidence that this building was built later than its comrades. In 1503, when Seville was already an important city on the map and was home to these two great buildings, the monarchs decided to establish the seat of commerce with the recently discovered New World here, giving them the monopoly.\u00a0This means that all the riches that came from those lands arrived in Seville, and all the products being transported to sell there also departed from the same place.\u00a0Therefore, throughout this period the city was filled with traders both Spanish and foreign, attracted by the riches of this new market, and this turned Seville into one of the most prosperous cities in the world.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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However, these merchants needed a meeting space.\u00a0Until the 16th<\/sup> century this place had been the so called \u2018stands\u2019 that is to say the steps of Alemanes street. In fact, whenever it rained they didn\u2019t have any problems with continuing their business inside the Cathedral. This didn\u2019t amuse the clergy, who asked for a space for the merchants to be constructed so that they wouldn\u2019t trespass on their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this reason the auction house was built.\u00a0 It was designed by the same architect who did the \u2018Escorial\u2019, Juan de Herrera, something that its straight features and symmetry hint at.\u00a0In the interior you can see the clear renaissance patios and wander through the upper galleries.\u00a0On one of its sides, there is a stone cross; this is called the cross of oaths<\/em>, where the traders closed their deals, to give it a sacred air that would stop them from breaking their promises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The general Archives of the Americas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Notwithstanding, when trade with America moved to Cadiz in the 18th<\/sup> century, so did the merchants, and the Auction house was abandoned.\u00a0It was used as a tenement house until, years later, in 1785, in was converted into what it is now: the General Archives of the Americas, that\u2019s to say the official archive of all the documents related with America, and with Spanish colonial America.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This too was a response to a requirement.\u00a0The Age of Enlightenment<\/a> was coming and it was necessary to start to write an authoritative history. For this, King Carlos III gave the order to bring all the documents related to the work the Spanish people in the Americas to one place, to write a true story in response to the badly written foreign texts which had addressed the subject of the Spanish American Conquest, with an end to morally discredit it.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, inside -or better said under- its walls they have preserved thousands of original documents from this period, that researchers use every day to continue their honourable work: continuing to write history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tuesday \u2013 Saturday: 9:30 am-5:00 pm; Sundays and Holidays: 10:00 am-2:00 pm. Free entry<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Images socurce<\/a>: 6 – 10 (section 2). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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