The Hospital de la Santa Caridad is, for many art experts, Seville's great artistic secret: a Baroque ensemble of the highest quality that most tourists overlook and that deeply impresses those who discover it. Founded in 1664 by Miguel de Mañara —the Sevillian aristocrat whose figure inspired the myth of the historical Don Juan— the hospital still fulfils its original mission of caring for those in greatest need today. Its church houses six large canvases by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and the two most haunting paintings of Spanish Baroque: Finis Gloriae Mundi and In Ictu Oculi by Juan de Valdés Leal, allegorical representations of death and the vanity of worldly glory that move everyone who contemplates them.
C. Temprado, 3, Sevilla
