Palacio de San Telmo
The Palacio de San Telmo stands in Seville as a Sevillian Baroque palace beside Calle Palos de la Frontera. Its rectangular plan includes courtyards, corner towers, a chapel and gardens, while the richly carved entrance creates the strongest view from outside.
Construction began in 1682 for the Universidad de Mareantes, which trained orphaned children for life at sea. The chapel brings together work by Leonardo de Figueroa, Pedro Duque y Cornejo, Miguel de Quintana, Domingo Martínez and Juan Tomás Díaz, with Nuestra Señora del Buen Aire dating from the early seventeenth century. The 1754 portal carries a balcony supported by sculpted Atlantes, twelve female figures representing nautical arts and sciences, and Saint Telmo above Saints Ferdinand and Hermenegild. Twelve statues created by Antonio Susillo in 1895 line the Calle Palos de la Frontera façade.
The palace later served as a royal residence, a seminary and the seat of Andalusia’s presidency. Its former gardens became part of Parque de María Luisa, where the 1893 Costurero de la Reina survives as Seville’s oldest Neomudéjar building.
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