The Seville of King Peter, Susona and Mañara

Seville keeps its legends on very specific street corners: a niche, a tile panel, a tombstone, a doorway. This route visits them while always separating what the records say from what people have told for centuries, so you can enjoy the mystery without mistaking it for history.

6 stops
2.2 km
1 h 45 min
Free

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Niche with the figure of King Peter I on Calle Cabeza del Rey Don Pedro

The route

Stop by stop

1 Convent of Santa InésThe house founded by María Coronel, the noblewoman who, legend says, disfigured her own face to escape a king.
2 Calle Cabeza del Rey Don PedroA king promised to display the culprit's head at the scene of the crime. And he kept his word: he put up his own.
3 Casa de PilatosA Sevillian palace that, according to tradition, copied the house of Pontius Pilate in Jerusalem.
4 Calle SusonaA tile panel recalls the young woman who, legend says, betrayed her own father.
5 Cathedral: Columbus's bones and the lizardBehind this door lie the remains of Christopher Columbus… or so the DNA says, because another city claims them too.
6 Hospital de la CaridadThe hospital founded by a repentant nobleman who asked to be buried under the doorway so that everyone would walk over him.

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What you’ll discover

The Seville of King Peter, Susona and Mañara

King Peter I, everywhere

Loved as the Just and feared as the Cruel, the 14th-century monarch stars in several of the city's best-known legends.

Records and tradition

At every stop you will learn what is proven and what belongs to popular memory, from Diego de Susán's conspiracy to the bones of Columbus.

Clues in the street

A king in a niche, a tile panel recalling a betrayal, a lizard hanging from a ceiling: details you would walk past unless someone tells you where to look.

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