Urban Transformations in the Surroundings of the Church of Santa Catalina de Sevilla

Abstract

Seville is a city that has undergone a large number of urban transformations, the result of the historical evolution without regulations or ordinances that will dictate an urban model according to its inhabitants and collations. The transition from a medieval to a modern city is reflected in the historical events or facts that addresses the city in the sixteenth century, after the conquest of America, of that “Seville, New Rome” as Vicente Lleó quoted it, and of the subsequent centuries that are slowly giving a configuration more similar to the currents one, through its barracks, collations or neighbourhoods. In the article we have taken as a model the area surrounding the Church of Santa Catalina since it has been, for centuries and since Hispalis Romana, one of the main axes of the city.