The main courtyard
Marble, a Genoese fountain and Roman statues under Andalusi plasterwork.
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If the Mudéjar halls captivated you, yes — the same manner here with a home's intimacy rather than royal formality, unbooked and uncrowded. On one compressed Seville day, the big three first.
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The Casa de Pilatos is Seville's loveliest private palace — the little Alcázar without its crowds: a sixteenth-century ducal house fusing Mudéjar with Italian Renaissance into the purest Sevillian blend: a marble courtyard with Genoese fountain and four Roman statues, ringed by Andalusi arches and plasterwork over the city's finest azulejo walls — said to hold above a hundred and fifty different tile patterns. The name recalls a pilgrimage: the builder returned from Jerusalem, and his palace was fancied a copy of Pilate's house — in truth it is al-Andalus's heir. Still partly inhabited by the Medinaceli heirs, its upper floor shows the family collections by guided tour. Here you escape the centre's queues for equal beauty: ten minutes from the cathedral, a whole calmer world — Lawrence of Arabia and royal film scenes were shot within its walls.
Marble, a Genoese fountain and Roman statues under Andalusi plasterwork.
Sixteenth-century ceramic in unrepeating patterns.
Fountained, bougainvillea'd — the dukes' sitting ground.
Plaza de Pilatos 1, 41003 Seville