ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF SEVILLE
One of Spain's richest museums, archaeologically speaking, in Seville.
This museum is one of the richest in Spain, archaeologically speaking! It is housed in a neo-Renaissance pavilion designed between 1910 and 1915 by Aníbal González as the Fine Arts Palace for the 1929 Ibero-American Exhibition. Most of the pieces were transferred to the museum in 1942, thanks to private donations and acquisitions by Seville City Council. Its treasures, displayed in chronological order on three floors, date back to caveman times, the Roman, Visigoth and Arab periods... and the 14th century. In the basement, eighteen rooms display objects from the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods, mostly from the Carmona region. There are numerous fossils and tools dating back to the First Bronze Age, discovered in the Don Juan cave in Constantina. There's also information on the presence of mammoths in Andalusia. On the first floor, eighteen other rooms cover the period from Roman times to the end of the Middle Ages. Of particular note are a large number of statues from the Hadrianic period, mainly from the Italic site. Roman, Visigothic and Muslim Andalusia is also represented by carved wooden pieces.
Finally, on the second floor is the monographic room dedicated to the Carambolo treasure. Discovered in 1958 in the belly of a hill near the town, it is utterly fascinating: twenty-one jewels of the finest gold, weighing almost 3,000 kg, bear witness to the mysterious Tartessian civilization dating back to the 6th century BC.
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