Los Venerables Hospital

If you find yourself strolling through the neighbourhood of Santa Cruz, you cannot miss the Hospital de los Venerables. It’s worth seeing because it has many works of art by renowned artists from Seville.

The history of the charity hospital began when the Brotherhood ‘El Silencio’ (The Silence) decided, in the year 1627, to protect elderly priests, the poor and the disabled and rent a house where they were given shelter, assistance and maintained.

This work continued until when the same fraternity founded another whose purpose would be to cover exclusively the task they’d been carrying out since 1627, and decided to build the hospital.