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Smart culture & Heritage Project
In Seville, we understand sustainability in its broadest sense, but there is a common thread in the whole strategy that is based on analyzing where we come from, what has made us unique over the centuries, in order to protect, promote and reinterpret it.
That is the reason why Seville is committed to its authenticity, to the genuineness of the legacy we preserve today, to its traditions, its culture, its heritage and its vibrant lifestyle.
Enhancing what makes us unique, makes us more sustainable and therefore more intelligent.
The Smart Culture & Heritage Project consist of the development and implementation of the following actions.
#BeAuthenticBeSmart
Macarena'S WALL
The Macarena´s Wall is one of the oldest and most popular monuments in the city and has been listed as an Asset of Cultural Interest since 1908. But it is also a unique symbol of a neighborhood, the Macarena, which is deeply rooted in people. Four years ago the Seville City Council began a process of rehabilitation of this monument to save it from oblivion and also to turn it into an icon of the revitalisation of this area, away from the most touristic center.
The wall of Roman origin helps to understand the history of Seville and its evolution through the centuries and to unite the past and the future of the city. Its recovery is the result of a citizens’ movement to save this heritage.
Royal Artillery Factory
The Royal Artillery Factory of Seville is an industrial complex of the eighteenth century that was built on an old foundry of the sixteenth century and was expanded in successive centuries. It was the largest factory of cannons and projectiles in the world and supplied armaments to the entire Spanish empire. Today it offers 22,000 square meters in the center of Seville at the service of culture. The factory is a great container for the creative industries, a remarkable and unique space in the world to undertake an activity that generates value for the local economy and a discovery to the visitor of a different Seville. A building that, preserving the passage of history on its walls, projects its authenticity in the avant-garde.
Temples & Convent tours
Seville is a city full of temples and convents, where Christian, Jewish and Muslim vestiges often coexist in the same building, showing the authentic uniqueness of the local heritage. The religious orders that have survived the passing of the centuries have preserved some of these formidable constructions. As a consequence of this, the city has a unique and excellent offer of religious heritage that can grow, as there are many resources that are not open to the public yet with real gems to be discovered.
This is a very valuable tourist product as it allows the flow of visitors to be extended to other corners of the city and enriches the whole city with this offer, and also allows religious communities that live in these monuments to preserve ancient traditions and crafts.
"Torre de los perdigones"
Seville is also a city of trades and industries and its history has been marked by the production of goods and services, from the distant crafts to the industrialization of the 19th century. In addition to churches and palaces, factories should also be part of Seville’s cultural heritage. Without them the city cannot be understood.
«Torre de los Perdigones» is a landmark of the industrial Seville of the nineteenth century that survives and allows revitalizing the northern part of the city center, decongesting tourism and distributing new flows and itineraries for other neighborhoods that benefit from the visits. This monument adds a new argument to know Seville from a height of 45 meters through a camera obscura and a unique viewpoint that allows to identify other landmarks of the cultural and industrial heritage of the city.
Masters of the Future
Seville hosts Masters of the Future at the Castillo de San Jorge, an exhibition on contemporary crafts which has a total of 55 national and international pieces of European cradle. This initiative, organized by Sevilla City Office and the Contemporary Association of Arts and Crafts, is a pioneer in Spain and is driven by the Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship.
The aim of the project is making the excellent Sevillian, Spanish and European artisan workshops visible, bringing them closer to the new generations.
The artisan sector has an enormous cultural and economic potential in a city like Seville where there is so much tradition to sink in and so much capacity to recreate, promoting the sustainable economic growth of the craft sector through the creation of a new form of modern art that allows new modes of expression. The commitment to craftsmanship is the commitment to the beauty and wealth of yesterday, today and tomorrow.
