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The Archbishop Palace in Seville will run from September

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By AndaluNet on 07/07/2017

The Archbishop Palace in Seville will run from September

The Archbishop Palace in Seville will open its doors to visitors and Seville from next September. Visits to the Archbishop's Palace will be two Saturdays a month with four shifts each day and each group will consist of thirty people who can tour the noble premises of a building dating from the mid-sixteenth century and is considered Historic Artistic Monument since 1969. Of the eight monthly shifts one will be free and the remaining seven the price of six euros per visitor.

Tickets to visit the Archbishop Palace in Seville will soon be purchased through the website of the Archdiocese (archisevilla.org). Upon purchase of a reserve entry must be redeemed for entry into the Library Diocesan day visit well in advance will be acquired. The first round will be at ten o'clock and the other at eleven, 0:01.

It was a first opening of the Archbishopric tourism, in 2013 coinciding with the Year of Faith, and that good experience has led the Archdiocese to prepare this cultural journey and catechetical.

Tour of the noble premises of the Archbishop's Palace

The visit will last about forty-five minutes, and it inside a building housing the offices of the Diocesan Curia will be displayed and residence of the Archbishop. Specifically, The route crosses the premises where a genuine artistic treasure is guarded, making the Archbishop's Palace in one of the best art galleries in the city.

catechetical and cultural tour

The tour will be eminently catechetical and cultural, to the extent that stop in works of art "they can be exploited for evangelization and catechesis", according to the Archbishop of Seville he highlighted in a recent digital meeting. About, Bishop Asenjo said that "material beauty can be a path of encounter with the immaterial beauty that is God, as so often repeated by Pope Benedicto XVI ". And this is the purpose of the visits.

The Archdiocese wants to open to the faithful and the general public these halls of Archbishop's Palace, They are harboring a great treasure one of the leading art galleries in the city of Seville ". Rating endorsed by two Murillos –The appearance of the Virgin to Juan de Quirós and The delivery of the rosary to Santo Domingo-, six Zurbaranes –Tears of San Pedro, and portraits of Maese Rodrigo Fernández de Santaella, San Francisco de Asis, San Bruno, Santo Domingo and San Pedro Mártir-, several works of Herrera the Elder, the Calabrian Matia Pretti or the incredible collection of Juan de Espinal which can be seen especially in the so-called living pictures, the largest room of the palace decorated with works in which the history of salvation is reviewed.

The visit will begin in the courtyard of the palace once processed the income from Diocesan Library. From there he will go to the first floor by the main staircase, designed by Fray Manuel Ramos in the second half of XVII century. The quoted room tables, Gallery bishops, the throne room, oratory, ante-chapel and the nuncio's office are the offices of Archbishop Palace in Seville you can tour and schedule will be available soon on the website of the Archdiocese of Seville.

Learn more: www.archisevilla.org