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Royal Tobacco Factory. Building full of stories and curiosities of Sevilla.

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By AndaluNet on 14/05/2018

The Royal Tobacco Factory, Current University of Sevilla, It is considered well of interest culture from 1959. The building of the Royal Factory has witnessed numerable events throughout history so it is defined as a key point to understand the history of Spain.

The building was intended for the manufacture of snuff work by women. Today several faculties are collected including the History and Geography.

We tell a bit more about the Royal Tobacco Factory:

1. The Royal Tobacco Factory was the first tobacco factory in Europe.

The stately building was built in the eighteenth century to host the first major European snuff mill. At that time Sevilla held the monopoly of trade with America so that a building of this size was necessary.

In the sixteenth century several articles of snuff settled in Sevilla, but you were distributed around the city, so the government decided to concentrate them and unify them in a large factory located opposite the church of San Pedro.

Many are the works and paintings that reflect the day-to-day “the cigarreras” those women who daily worked in the Tobacco Factory in Seville.

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Painting Gonzalo Bilbao

2. military engineering in the building.

The Royal Tobacco Factory is one of the best preserved industrial buildings in the country and one of the oldest in Europe. The factory dating the eighteenth century was built on known at that time field “the skulls” which it housed a Roman burial.

Its construction was carried out by Spanish and Dutch military engineers, Ignacio Sala being responsible for the initial project. Diego Bordick Deverez replaced the previous one and made another larger project. But Sebastian Van der Borcht was the author of the most significant part of the building. In this phase, the Flemish engineer enlisted the help of local riggers as Pedro de Silva, Lucas Cintora and Vicente Catalan Bengochea.

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3. Fame

The figure can be seen on the facade of the former factory symbolizes Fame. There is a legend around this statue, for it is said that when the cigarette occasionally when they entered the factory to work, the sound of a trumpet sounded and was attributed to the statue of fame that marked the beginning of the day.

Statue of Fame symbolizes the road to be traveled to achieve glory.

4. Black Holes.

Because of the large number of workers who had the Royal Factory of Seville Snuff, creating your own guard was necessary to impose order and justice within the building. It was very frequent arrest and detention of a female worker “cigar case” for trying to sell snuff factory outside.

Currently this little jail is intact and in this area are the offices of the teachers of the current Rector of the University of Seville.

Carmen frames of film

5. A hitherto unknown secret wing

Improvement works for a building of the former Royal Tobacco Factory unknown wing showed that the building had sustained basis in some species discovered underground arches.

This database consists of arches was built because the area where the building is conducive flooding was in the eighteenth century.
The building is supported by a system of inverted arches unusual for the time, but it has proven to be very effective because it has not been damaged during the Lisbon earthquake 1975.