Interpretation Center of the Jewish Quarter

It should be noted that in the neighborhood of Santa Cruz is where the Jewish quarter of Seville was located and that reached the area of San Bartolomé. The aim is to publicize a part of Jewish culture that has often been forgotten and is part of the history of Spain as is our Jewish past. On display are a series of pieces and objects that tell how the Jewish quarter of Seville was, its physical limits in the city, its history, its most prominent figures, its legends, its social and cultural achievements and the persecutions that took place in them, weaving a narrative thread that will make the visitor learn during the visit about the past of one of the most beautiful areas of Seville.

The center has in its collection a jewel of Spanish painting: «The Expulsion of the Jews from Seville», a painting by Joaquín Turina Areal, painter of the Sevillian School of the 19th century. «It is one of the few pictorial works that have dealt with the theme of the expulsion of the Jews in Spain, and their lament for the loss of what was their homeland, Spain, since the first century after Christ.»