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The legend of the Sierpes street in Seville

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By AndaluNet on 04/05/2018

The Calle Sierpes or rather Calle de la Sierpe It is one of the most famous streets of Seville belonging to the center of Sevilla. There are many stories and legends circulating in Seville about the peculiar name of this street.

Formerly, Calle Sierpes He had the name Calle Espaderos. To exist in this street a proliferation of establishments engaged in forging swords. After, It is said that by its wavy and winding, the street was renamed as we know it today.

Street Tiller. Seville.
Source: Sevillaen360

They were spending the years, and because of the importance of the city of Seville in history, Tiller Street became world famous in the fifteenth century. In addition, literature helped his fame as this street is the scene of works of writers like Cervantes, who he was imprisoned in a jail cell Real. It is shown in his Commedia The fortunate ruffian.

Nobody knows exact science to its name must. Mr Luis Montoto, attributed the name to this street was the residence Don Alvaro Gil de la Sierpe. Others say the name Wurm is due to an old apothecary to barbering who was in this popular street, because the tillers was a symbol used by the bleeders.

Far from these testimonies about the name of the street. Some are a series of events in the Sevilla fifteenth century that marked this street as a disturbing both. The Calle Sierpes, It was a point that aroused concern among the Sevillian because of the innumerable disappearances of children living or passing through this area. Some say that he was a thief children and so was, a thief of children embodied in a gigantic snake living in the sewers and underground sewers, He went to look for a prey to calm your appetite. Having found a snake and killed, the body was exposed in the same Calle Espaderos, actual Calle Sierpes.