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By AndaluNet on 03/05/2018

The recondite and legendary streets full of history and legends that can be found in the center of Sevilla, It highlights the one that has run aground Figure stone body of a man. Legend has it that the body remains in this street, which is called “stone man”, is that of a man who laughed at the

royal command. Source: Legends of Sevilla.

King Juan II himself.

On a quiet night of the fifteenth century in Seville, Mateo Rubio and his friends ended their day and were drinking in a tavern Seville late in the morning. Once completed and finally revelry and ready to go home, the group of friends went through the door of the Blessed Sacrament, where I had to kneel down everything that happened there by King Don Juan II. All group members knelt showing their respects, everybody, less Mateo Rubio. Who besides not kneel, He scoffed at the absurd law imposed by King. That's when something changed in the sky that quiet night in Seville. Suddenly, the sky opened and something began to fall rapidly towards Mateo. It was a divine ray, God had sent to punish their boldness. Struck by lightning, Matthew felt his knees were sinking into the ground and his body was turning to stone.

Street stone man. Seville. Source: cofrades.

He's version of the story we have told is the version that has been passed from generation to generation, but some years ago it was discovered that this stone statue was protagonist of thousands of stories, Arab baths belonged to some thousands of years ago in this area had.

Anyway, we can still see the curious stone body on this street. And I'd rather stay with the legendary version. And you?

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