The Seville City Hall (Casa Consistorial), on Plaza de San Francisco, is universally recognised by art historians as the finest and most complete example of Plateresque Renaissance architecture in Spain. Begun in 1527 by the architect Diego de Riaño from Toledo, its façade is covered in sculpted decoration of extraordinary richness and meticulousness: medallions featuring figures from classical antiquity, grotesques in the style of the Roman Renaissance, cherubs and columns covered in plant-like reliefs that Riaño and his successors carved with the delicacy of a goldsmith. The interior of the town hall preserves the Mayors' Hall (Salón de los Alcaldes), with gilded coffered ceilings and a collection of portraits of Seville's rulers spanning more than five centuries of municipal history.
Pl. de San Francisco, 1, Seville
