Maritime Museum Torre del Oro in Seville, Spain

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The Naval Museum is located in the Torre del Oro, Paseo de Cristóbal Colón. It was created in March 1936 by the Ministry of the Navy, was inaugurated in 1944 with funding from the Naval Museum of Madrid. Located in one of the towers of the Almohad wall Sevillla that starting from the Alcázar to the port was responsible for the defense of the area. It was built in 1220 and is now called the Torre del Oro, as the story was covered its exterior with golden tiles. The tower is dodecagonal in his first body and the second hexagon. His third body is circular being added in 1760. He is currently an isolated tower on the banks of the Guadalquivir River, and in 1821 pulled down the wall that joined the Alcázar.

The museum occupies two floors of the body under the tower, the two rooms of the museum is shaped like a ring that rotates in tornouna central staircase that connects them, the shortage of space has meant that all the walls are occupied as a museum free .

The idea of the museum’s creation was to study the issues related to the world of navigation developed in the Guadalquivir, and the circumnavigation of Juan Sebastian Elcano, the first steamship in Spain, the iconography of the river and port of Seville local maritime folklore.

Making the visit, we find the set of models of boats that are exposed in the windows. Of the most important detacamos the model of the ship “Cape Horn”, the Giralda, the beautiful yacht of King Alfonso XIII, the model and drawings of the San Fernando Real, the first steamboat built by shipyards in Seville in 1917. Of the most interesting, we highlight the models of the three ships that set sail in search of the Indies captained by Christopher Columbus, on Friday August 3, 1492. Important to note the large mural traces the route taken by Elcano in its journey around the world.

In the second room, we see the documentary section of photographs, documents of Alfonso XIII, guns out from the bay of Cadiz, one of them from the wreckage of Trafalgar.

In pictures we see the iconography of the Guadalquivir, other pictures represent a party in the river opposite the Palace of San Telmo, as for the birth of the Infanta Maria de las Mercedes. We see a acolección plates and ceramic tiles made in the monastery with representations of the Torre del Oro, being deposited by the Museum of Ceramic-Cartuja Pickman Salteras.

A splendid collection of tools related to the art of navigation, used by carpenters, as well as other topics related to fishing, such as sailors’ knots, telegraph orders and marine animals like the tortoise, the defense of a sawfish, shark’s body and jaw of a whale.