Former Royal Tobacco Factory
Chapter 5/12 · Sevilla
Audio coming soon: meanwhile, the text is read aloud with your device voice.
This large building is the former Royal Tobacco Factory. Construction began in 1728, production started in 1758 and the works were finished in 1770. Since the middle of the 20th century it has housed the rectorate of the University of Seville.
The cigarreras worked here, the women who rolled cigars by hand. Photographers and painters of their time portrayed them, and the most famous one is fictional: Carmen, the heroine of Georges Bizet's opera, is a cigarrera from this factory.
We continue towards the river. On the left is the San Telmo Palace, a Baroque building built as a college for sailors and now the seat of the Presidency of the Regional Government of Andalusia. Soon we reach the bank of the Guadalquivir, next to the Torre del Oro.
Start · Sevilla