Santa Cruz Quarter
Chapter 3/12 · Sevilla
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Santa Cruz is Seville's most famous quarter, with narrow lanes, patios and little squares. It occupies part of the old Jewish quarter, which also included the districts of Santa María la Blanca and San Bartolomé. The Jewish community was scattered in 1391, and its old quarter gave rise to these three districts.
In this Plaza de Santa Cruz stood the church of the same name, where the Sevillian painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was buried. The church no longer exists, and in 1848 a plaque was placed in his memory. Very close by is Plaza de Doña Elvira; José Zorrilla placed in this area the house of the Commander Don Gonzalo de Ulloa, Doña Inés's father in Don Juan Tenorio.
Now we leave the quarter through the Murillo Gardens, created between 1911 and 1917, and walk south, through María Luisa Park, to Plaza de España.
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