Hospital · Sevilla
Hospital de la Santa Caridad
Today: Hospital de la Santa Caridad, Sevilla
- Place
- Sevilla
- Kind
- Hospital
- Built
- 1663 to 1721
- What remains
- Standing
- Visiting
- Open to visit
The church of San Jorge and the hospital of the Hermandad de la Santa Caridad, promoted by Miguel de Mañara, its head brother from 1663. The church was inaugurated on 16 July 1674; the hospital was built in naves of the shipyards that Alfonso X ordered in 1252, with wards opened one after another up to 1682, and the courtyards and the tower were finished in 1721. In the church are the paintings by Valdés Leal and the main altarpiece by Bernardo Simón de Pineda, with sculpture by Pedro Roldán, and it can be visited.