Topography of Old Sevilla

Old Sevilla on Map of Eugene

Adams St. to Alder St. (1.5 Miles)—Railroad to 18th Ave. (1 Mile)

Physical Setting

Site and Situation

Google Earth View of Andalucía

Guadalquiver Valley

Lower Valley of the Guadalquir River

Flood Plain Near Sevilla

Elevation in Meters

17 m. = 56 ft. 14 m. = 46 ft. 12 m. = 39 ft. 10 m. = 33 ft. 8m. = 26 ft. 6 m. = 20 ft.

Valley elevations

Ibero Settlement

Ispal

Tartassian period—8th Century B.C.-530 B.C.

(Phoenician Influence)

Turdetani period—530 B.C.—206 B.C.

(Carthaginian Influence)

Precise Site and Roads

Area of 3rd Century B.C.

Ibero Settlement

Roman Hispalis

206 B.C.—441 A.D.

(647 years)

1: Republican Hispalis 206 B.C.—49 B.C.

2: Imperial Hispalis 49 B.C.—441 A.D.

Walls and Gates Street Pattern and Blocks

Ibero-Roman Hispalis

2nd Century B.C.

Italica

(founded 206 B.C.)

Early and Republican Hispalis

Republican Hispalis

(on modern aerial view)

2–IMPERIAL HISPALIS

(COLONIA JULIO RÓMULA) 49 B.C.—441A.D. FORUM & INSULAE

(Vandals Sacked City–409-411)

Imperial Hispalis

(Imposed on photo of modern Sevilla)

Visagoth Spali

441 A.D.—712 A.D.

(271 years)

Religious Sites

Visagoth Spali ca. 600 A.D.

Islamic Isbiliya

712 A.D.—1248 A.D.

(536 Years)

Moors (Arabs) 712-750 A.D. Cordoba (Umayyad Caliphate)

Emirate of Cordoba 756-929 A.D Cordoba

(Normans Sacked City–844)

Caliphate of Cordoba—	929-1031 A.D.	Cordoba
Taifas (local rulers)	1031-1091 A.D.	Isbiliya
Almoravides (Berbers—Fez)	1091-1147 A.D.	Cordoba
Almohades (Berbers—Marrakesh)	1147-1248 A.D.	Isbiliya

Isbiliya 9th—11th Century

Compare Roman and 11th C. Almoravides Walls

Almohades Walls

1168

12th Century (Almohades) Isbiliya

Focus of Almohades Isbiliya

(end of 12th Century)

Flood 1169

Bridge of Boats 1171

Drying out of Old Channel 1184

Markets Palaces Ports

Walls of Sevilla

Wall of the Alcazar

Spanish Sevilla

1248 A.D.- present

(766 years)

Mudejar Sevilla 1248-1502 Parishes & Convents

Golden Age 1502 -1717 Open Spaces

Sevilla in Decline	1717-1810	*Plazas*
Modern Sevilla	1810-1930	*Railroads and Parks*
Contemporary Sevilla	1930-2014	*Urban Additions*

Mudejar Sevilla.

Parishes, Markets, Moorish and Jewish Quarters

Earliest Foundations of Religious Orders

1248-1301

(women’s orders— Red; men’s orders— Blue)

Religious Orders—1503

(women’s orders— warm colors; men’s orders— cool colors)

Convent with Cloisters

Museum of Art

Mudejar Sevilla

Economic Focal Points

Religious, Royal, and Commercial Core

1500 A.D.

Triana — 1500

Golden Age—16th & 17th Centuries

Events

Stagnating Sevilla (18th-19th Centuries)

16th Century

Floods 1503, 1544, 1545,

1554, 1590, 1592-93

Earthquakes 1504, 1511

Epidemic 1507

Fire in Triana 1579

17th – 18th Century Flood 1626 8,000 houses destroyed

1789

Epidemics 1646—2,500 died

1800–14,658 died

Earthquake –1801

Population by Quartiles 1588

(Peak Population: ca. 130,000)

1574 (Looking east)

17th Century (Looking north)

1660 (Looking east)

1660 (looking east)

Religious Orders—1248-1770

24 Parish churches, 38 convents, 27 monasteries, 4 beaterios, 11 hermitages, 6 colleges and seminaries, 6 hospitals, 8 residential hospitals, numerous chapels, one cathedral, archbishops palace, numerous crosses and small shrines