The Collegiate Church of the Divine Saviour is the second largest church in Seville and one of the great monuments of Andalusian Baroque. Built between 1674 and 1712 on the ruins of the city's former Islamic main mosque—whose ablutions courtyard survives today as the Patio de los Naranjos—the project was commissioned to the architect Leonardo de Figueroa, who designed a 35-metre-high central nave crowned by exceptionally rich Baroque vaults. The church of El Salvador houses two of Seville's most revered Holy Week images: the Cristo del Amor, a masterpiece carving by Martínez Montañés dated 1618, and the Jesús de la Pasión, which processes on Holy Tuesday with one of the oldest brotherhoods in the city. Plaza del Salvador is the favourite meeting spot of Sevillians at aperitif time, especially on spring evenings.
Pl. del Salvador, s/n, Sevilla
