Museo Del Castillo De San Jorge — Local services in Seville

Located right next to the mercado, I was very disappointed at the lack of information provided from this museum about the tragedy and horrors so many jews had to endure for their beliefs. A short "video" gave some insight and avialable in English. There was more displays of catholic religious materials than information regarding the inqusition which was very ironic given what had happened here. So much more can be done to make this a much more informative visit.

Following is an excerpt from Rick Steve's Spain guidebook which can offer more insight into the matter " In the summer of 1391, smoldering anti-Jewish sentiment flared up in Sevilla. On June 6, Christian mobs ransacked the city's Jewish Quarter (Juderfa). Approximately 4,000 Jews were killed, and 5,000 Jewish families were driven from their homes. The former Juderia eventually became the neighborhood of the holy cross- Barrio Santa cruz. Synagogues were stripped and transformed into churches. Sevilla's uprising spread through Spain (and Europe), the first of many nasty pogroms during the next century. Before the pogrom, Jews had lived in Sevilla for centuries as the city's respected merchants, doctors, and bankers. They flourished under the Muslim Moors. After Sevilla was "liber- ated" by Kina Ferdinand l(1248), Jews were given protection by Castile's kings and allowed measure Of self-government, though they were confined to the Jewish neighborhood. But by the 14th century, Jews were increasingly accused of everything from poisoning wells to ritually sacrificing Christian babies. Mobs killed suspected Jews, and some of Sevilla's most espected Jewish citizens had their fortunes confiscated.

After 1391. Jews were forced to make a choice: Be persecuted (even killed), relocate, or convert to Christianity. The newly Christianized-called conversos (converted) or marranos (swine)-were constantly under suspicion of practicing their old faith in private, and thereby undermining true Christianity. Fanning the mistrust were the perceptions of longtime Christians, who felt threatened by this new social class of converted Jews, who now had equal status. To root out the perceived problem of underground Judaism, the "Catholic Monarchs," Ferdinand and Isabel, estab- lished the Inquisition in Spain (1478). Under the direction of Grand Inquisitor Tomás de Torquemada, these religious courts arrested and interrogated conversos suspected of practicing Judaism. Using long solitary confinement and torture, they extracted confessions. On February 6, 1481, Sevilla hosted Spain's first auto-da-fé ("act of faith"), public confession and punishment for heresy. Six accused conversos were paraded barefoot into the cathedral. forced to publicly confess their sins, then burned at the stake. Over the next three decades, thousands of conversos were tried and killed in Spain. In 1492. the same year the last Moors were driven from Spain Ferdinand and Isabel decreed that all remaining Jews convert or be expelled, In what became known as the Sephardic Diaspora, Spain's Jews left mostly for Portugal and North Africa

The Castle of San Jorge was a medieval fortress built on the west bank of the Guadalquivir river in Seville, Spain. It was also used as headquarters and prison for the Spanish Inquisition. It was demolished in the 19th century and made into a food market.

A museum in the underground ruins focuses on the history of the castle, the Spanish Inquisition and of religious repression. Next to the food market in the Barrio de Triana, the Alley of the Inquisition, which was part of the fortifications, now connects Castilla Street with the Nuestra Señora de la O Walk.

When the Inquisition began in Seville, they needed more space for their dungeons. Since the Castle of San Jorge was unused, it was a very apparent place for those duties and it was ceded to it by the Court.

The Inquisition originally intended to suppress heresy within the Catholic Church itself, ensuring its spiritual purity. But the "Modern Inquisition" established in Seville, contrary to what is believed, was an independent institution of the Church, to prosecute false Christians and heretics.

It was created by the Catholic Monarchs and began operating in Seville in 1481, with the converts strongly opposed to the establishment of the Court.

Since Seville was an amalgam of cultures, with remarkable Judeo-Moorish minorities and a large commercial center open to traffic of all nations, it was an ideal place for the presence and distribution of non-Catholic ideologies. An archbishop of Seville, Pedro Gonzalez de Mendoza, was the true founder of the Modern Inquisition.

The Christians accused of heresy were forbidden to appeal to Rome, so that the "religious control" became independent controlled outside the papal curia.

The Tribunal of the Holy Office began with its headquarters at the convent of San Pable of the Dominicans (present church of la Magdalena) who, because of the rivalry that it maintained with the Franciscan Order, and risking its prestige, turned the convent for the men and women...

Si quieres conocer algo más, continua con la lectura: también llamado como Castillo de Gabir / Castillo de Triana / Castillo de la Inquisición, es un Castillo almohade en el que se estableció el Tribunal de la Santa Inquisición en 1481, permaneciendo hasta 1785 en él. Abandonado, es casi totalmente demolido a principios del siglo XIX, en que se terraplenó el terreno a una cota más alta que la del castillo con los propios escombros, procediéndose a construir el mercado.

Las primeras descripciones datan del siglo XV, en el que constituía un edificio que se hallaba rodeado por un foso con torres fuertes a ciertas distancias para su mayor defensa. Una de éstas se descubre todavía a nivel del agua en el sitio conocido como la Enramadilla, cerca de la llamada Alcantarilla de los Ciegos, y también se observan reliquias de otra en un argamasón, en la calle de este nombre, que correspondía al sector llamado de Camaroneros. Estos dos puntos eran los extremos del gran foso, que corría la extensión de lo que se conocería como la Cava, entrando por él el Guadalquivir en sus mareas altas, como recoge Morgado.

Para facilitar la comunicación había en las principales avenidas portezuelas o alcantarillas, tales como la ya citada de los Ciegos, y otra destruida en la zona de San Jacinto, que flanqueaba el paso a las gentes del castillo de Aznalfarache.

El Castillo de Triana puede deber sus orígenes al tiempo de los godos en el que presumiblemente serviría de defensa de la población, escasa, que existía en ese momento, contra los ataques de Leovigildo. En 1171 Jucef Abu Jacub, rey de Sevilla, mandó construir el puente de barcas amarrando las gruesas cadenas a los muros del castillo. Datan de 1178 las primeras noticias sobre el Castillo, cuando el infante Don Sancho, hizo una acometida contra los moros de Sevilla, atacando el castillo de Triana. Formalizado el cerco a Sevilla por el rey San Fernando en 1247 se sucedieron los ataques al castillo aún ocupado por los moros, pasando a poder cristiano en 1248.

No se conocen noticias de sus alcaidías hasta fines del siglo XIV, sucediéndose sus alcaides dado el enorme peso que la posesión del castillo ofrecía para mantenerse estable en el gobierno de Sevilla. En el siglo XV los años y el estado civil de la monarquía acusaban ya de inútiles las fortalezas como el castillo de Triana, se abandonó su cuidado, continuando habitando en él distintas familias, que mantenían el culto a la iglesia de San Jorge, abandonándole posteriormente cuando en 1481 se estableciera La Inquisición. Ësta se estableció allí hasta 1626, en el que muy deteriorado la muralla del castillo, por las fuertes arriadas hubo de abandonarlo.

En 1627 fue concedido al conde Duque de Olivares para cuidar de su reparo y evitase el fraude de mercaderías que se realizaban en su puerta. Hasta 1639, en el que reparadas las ruinas, volvió a ocuparlo la Inquisición hasta su traslado definitivo en 1785, debido a lo insostenible de su estado dada su antigüedad y afectación ante las continuas inundaciones. Las sucesivas ocupaciones de la Inquisición dieron lugar a diversas inscripciones que databan sus permanencias. Tras ella se legó el castillo a la ciudad con tributo perpetuo por parte de la Real Hacienda, para que abriendo una calle desde el Altozano a la de Castilla, se construyeran casas a uno y otro lado, a cuyo efecto se derribaron sus habitaciones, dejando en alberca el anchuroso solar que aún permanece.

En el siglo XVIII se acometieron diferentes obras debido a las inundaciones, construyéndose un reducto elevado con barandal de hierro, arrimado al muro interior del castillo, lo único conservado de la fortaleza, desde cuya puerta se da paso al puente en las inundaciones, por medio de una compuerta levadiza que a él le une. Se derribó para esto el muro exterior del mismo castillo, con cuyos escombros se levantó el terreno, formando un plano inclinado hasta la compuerta ordinaria del puente. Todo se concluyó en 1786. Si te gustado, Por favor, Dale un Like, Gracias. Fuentes IAPH, y...