Spain - Andalucia

Archives of the Indies

Avda. de la Constitución s/n Seville, Andalucia, 41001, Spain Phone: 954 211 234   /   Fax: 954 219 425

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On the opposite side of the cathedral from the Giralda is an impressive Renaissance building—originally built to be a customs house but later converted into the Archives of the Indies—which contains most of the documents (comprised of some 86,000,000 pages spanning 400 years) pertaining to the discovery and conquest of America. Students of Colonial Spanish American history still come across undocumented material when they make pilgrimages here for a rich feast of research.