Santa Ana Church

The Royal Parish Church of Santa Ana in Seville is a parish church in Gothic-Mudejar style, whose construction began at the end of the 13th century. It is popularly known as the Cathedral of Triana.

Its construction began in 1266, by order of King Alfonso X. According to the inscription on one of its walls, it owes its origin to the healing of the monarch from an eye disease he suffered from, through the miraculous intervention of Saint Anne.

From the outside, both its façades and its tower are worthy of note.

The church has three façades on the outside, the one that best preserves its original appearance is the side one, corresponding to the Gospel nave, consisting of a pointed arch, with seven pairs of small columns topped with capitals decorated with vegetal elements, with their corresponding archivolts; the outside one is finished with a perfect line of diamond points plus a zig-zag beading. The entire façade, made of stone, is framed under a pointed gable on which the coat of arms of Castile appears.

The tower is somewhat offset from the body of the church and can be dated to the first half of the 14th century, as evidenced by its poly-lobed arches framed by spandrels.

As for its interior, it is worth mentioning its main altarpiece, which is located at the end of the central nave. It adapts to the polygonal shape of the apse where it is located, and is a magnificent work in gilded wood by the artists Nufro Ortega and Nicolás Jurate, consisting of three sections, seven aisles and an attic.

Article obtained from Wikipedia article Wikipedia in his version of 19/05/2022, by various authors under the license Licencia de Documentación Libre GNU.

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