In the city of Seville, the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia

 "The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it" -- Christopher Columbus

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(in Seville [Spanish: Sevilla], the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville) It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. The fourth-largest city in Spain, Seville's  Old Town has a UNESCO World Heritage Site comprising three buildings: the Alcázar palace complex, the Cathedral, and the General Archive of the Indies. The Seville harbor, located about 80 km (50 miles) from the Atlantic Ocean, is the only river port in Spain. Seville has a municipal population of about 701,000 as of 2022, and a metropolitan population of about 1.5 million, making it the largest city in Andalusia, The 20th century in Seville saw the tribulations of the Spanish Civil War. Since the 1950s it has been the seat of the University of Seville, as well as its Schools of Law, Philology, Geography, and History.

+ Between 1825 and 1833, Melchor Cano acted as chief architect in Seville; most of the urban planning policy and architectural modifications of the city were made by him and his collaborator Jose Manuel Arjona y Cuba.

+ Industrial architecture surviving today from the first half of the 19th century includes the ceramics factory installed in the Carthusian monastery at La Cartuja in 1841 by the Pickman family, and now home to the El Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC)., which manages the collections of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Sevilla. In the years that Queen Isabel II ruled directly, about 1843–1868, the Sevillian bourgeoisie invested in a construction boom unmatched in the city's history. By the second half of the 19th century, Seville had begun an expansion supported by railway construction and the demolition of part of its ancient walls. The Sevillana de Electricidad Company was created in 1894 to provide electric power throughout the municipality, and in 1901 the Plaza de Armas railway station was inaugurated. In 1929 the city hosted the Ibero-American Exposition, which accelerated the southern expansion of the city and created new public spaces such as the Parque de María Luisa (Maria Luisa Park) and the adjoining Plaza de España. Not long before the opening, the Spanish government began a modernisation of the city in order to prepare for the expected crowds by erecting new hotels and widening the mediaeval streets to allow for the movement of automobiles.

+ Seville fell very quickly at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. General Queipo de Llano carried out a coup within the city, quickly capturing the city center. Under Francisco Franco's rule Spain was officially neutral in World War II and like the rest of the country, Seville remained largely, economically and culturally, isolated from the outside world.

+ The Tomb of Christopher Columbus is located in the Seville Cathedral since 1899.