Castle of San Jorge

The Castle of San Jorge was a medieval fortress built on the west bank of the Guadalquivir river in the Spanish city of Seville (Spain).

In the same year, the king funneled water from the Guadalquivir from the castle to the inner city, spending a huge sum of money.

Ferdinand III of Castile, with the help of the fleet of Ramón de Bonifaz, broke the chains and with it the barrier of the bridge.

According to Giorgio Vasari, the Florentine artist Pietro Torrigiano was arrested by the Inquisition, and died in the Castle of San Jorge in 1522 in a kind of hunger strike, although it is possible that this story is apocryphal.

In 2009 the City Hall of Seville inaugurated the Castillo de San Jorge project, thus creating an interpretation center for the ruins and the religious repression that the Spanish Inquisition conducted.

View of the Castle of San Jorge, the Puente de Barcas and the Torre del Oro , in 1770.
Castle of San Jorge in the city of Seville, facing the Guadalquivir river .
Drawing of Seville in 1617. At the bottom left is the Castle of San Jorge.
Callejón de la Inquisición (Alley of the Inquisition) seen from the calle Castilla, which was part of the castle. Through it prisoners were taken to the stake.
Pietro Torrigiano's death in the Castle of San Jorge of Seville. Engraving of the 19th century.
Remains of a kitchen of the castle, in the museum located on its site.