'Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!' Monty Python once quipped, but in Seville it's not so easy to escape the trauma. After all, this is where the Inquisition Court held its first ever council, in the infamous Castillo de San Jorge in 1481, an act that ignited 325 years of fear and terror. When the Inquisition fires were finally doused in the early 1800s, the castle was destroyed and a market built over the top; but its foundations were rediscovered in 1990.
A modern museum overlays the castle's foundations and takes viewers on a journey around the ruins juxtaposing details of each room's function with macabre stories of the cruelty dished out inside them. It's sometimes gruesome reading.
The Castillo is adjacent to the Isabel II bridge.
