Murallas de Sevilla

The Walls of Seville (Spanish: Murallas de Sevilla) are a series of defensive walls surrounding the Old Town of Seville. The city has been surrounded by walls since the Roman period, and they were maintained and modified throughout the subsequent Visigoth, Islamic and finally Castilian periods. The walls remained intact until the 19th century, when they were partially demolished after the revolution of 1868. Some parts of the walls still exist, especially around the Alcázar of Seville and some curtain walls in the barrio de la Macarena.

The walls originally had eighteen gates or points of access, four of which survive today: Puerta de la Macarena, Puerta de Córdoba, Postigo del Aceite and Postigo del Alcázar. The extant parts of the walls maintain an Almohad appearance, mixed with Classicist air resulting from restorations carried out in the 18th century.

Text adapted from “Walls of Seville” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Murallas de Sevilla ranks #3,543 of 7,738 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #147 of the 600 mapped in Spain. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,488 times in the last 60 days, more than 59% of the atlas. 11 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Seville, 1 km away. It is one of the 125 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Andalusia. See how Spain compares in the castle statistics.

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