Seville, Spain

General Archive of the Indies

General Archive of the Indies, Seville

A Renaissance merchants' exchange designed by Juan de Herrera that since 1785 has held the archive of Spain's American empire. Its shelves carry roughly nine kilometers of documents, around 80 million pages, including papers tied to Columbus and the conquest of the New World.

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Location

Coordinates: 37.384713, -5.993042

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