Hospital De Los Venerables in Seville

Address of Hospital De Los Venerables in Seville: Plaza de los Venerables, s/n, Seville-41004

Neighborhood at Hospital De Los Venerables in Seville: Santa Cruz

Contact no. at Hospital De Los Venerables in Seville: +34 95 456 2696

Hospital De Los Venerables in Seville opened on: 10a.m.-2p.m. and 4a.m.-8p.m. Monday-Sunday

Features of Hospital De Los Venerables in Seville

Hospital De Los Venerables in Seville dates from the same period as the Hospital de la Caridad. The building work on it was finished by Leonardo de Figueroa in 1687, during the famous Sevillian baroque period. The features of Hospital De Los Venerables in Seville include:

  -  The hospital is full of works by Valdes Leal and his son, who painted the dome and the frescoes.

  -  It was built to house elderly priests and stands in a small square in the heart of the Santa Cruz area of the city, a few metres from the Jardines de Murillo.

  -  It is frequently used nowadays to put on art exhibitions, especially painting exhibitions.

  -  The stairs are covered by an elliptical vault decorated with yeserías.

  -  Hospital De Los Venerables in Seville, with a single ship, is covered by vault with average tube with lenses and arcs fajones.

  -  Between the art works that are conserved in the ship of the temple they emphasize the central linen cloth of the altarpiece of San Jerónimo.

The sculptures of San Fernando and San Pedro are works of Pedro Roldán.

  -  The sculpture of San Esteban located in the altarpiece of the conception; are anonymous work of century XVII attributed to Mountain Martinez.

  -  For the Venerable ones it painted the most famous Murillo of his Immaculate ones; today in the museum of the Prado

Come and enjoy the artistic splendor!