The dark and terrible past of the Seville Fair

Ancient Fair of Seville was in the known Prado de San Sebastián, near a setting called the Prado and Espantaperros, today, It is occupied by the Provincial de Sevilla. But this area has a dark and terrible past.

The Prado de San Sebastián was one of the abandoned places of Sevilla, no one wanted to come because it was said that dwelt death, because in that place the cemetery of the Prado of San Sebastian and the cemetery of the Poor were.

told stories of apparitions and ghosts. Unexplained events. The place was also called the Paseo del Bereavement. Own José María Blanco White (Crespo) He spoke in his Letters from Spain of a sad memory of that place, presencio only one child still burning Witch Maria Dolores Caro.

This part of the city was used as quemadero by the Holy Inquisition for anyone who was sentenced to the stake for heresy or any other sin against faith. A place certainly put the willies to anyone who visited him.

The new and current location of the Fair, in Tablada, in the neighborhood of Los Remedios, It has a much nicer past. Era another Quemaderos of the Inquisition Seville, usual place of executions since it was on a scaffold boards, hence the name Tablada.

Where the fair was, Instead of celebration, joy and fun, a mute trace of death and desolation hid.

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