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3. Systematic work:
• 2000-2005: General Research Project: “Archaeological Analysis
of the Alcázar”
• Campaign 2000. Stratigraphic Polls
• Campaign 2001. Analytics 2000.
• Campaign 2002. Polls of Patio Doncellas.
• Campaign 2003. Analytics Patio Doncellas.
• Campaign 2004. Excavation Patio Doncellas.
• Campaign 2005. Patio del León and analytics.
• 2006. Campaigns Scientific Memory of Campaigns 2000-2005.
• 2006. Punctual Intervention in the Jardín Inglés.
Studies and archaeological excavations undertaken in the enclosure of
the Real Alcázar which have led to different construction hypotheses
of the current building, have been sufficiently described in previous
publication of Cuadernos del Alcazar and monographs on the subject.
Therefore, we will stick to a vision from the point of view of urban
planning, rather than from the archaeological point of view.
OWNERSHIP OF THE REALES ALCAZARES OF SEVILLE
Transfer of the Alcázar to the Council of Seville.
One of the first measures taken by the republican government in
respect of Heritage was the transfer of the Alcázar to the Munici-
pality of Seville. The overspending that the Alcázar maintenance
meant for the new government made that the competencies were
finally transferred to the City Council. Ten days after the procla-
mation of the Second Republic, by Decree of April 22, 1931, ratified
by Act of September 9 of the same year, the new corporation makes
the transfer of the Alcazar and its Gardens to the City of Seville.
The official act of transfer was held on October 31st 1931 and the
Notary Felix Sanchez Blanco issued the record.
On December 30th 1935, the deed of assignement was formalized
before the Notary, according to the third clause, free of charge, in
order to serve as a leisure and instruction park to Sevillians.
The transferred property was described as Alcázar of Seville, located
in this city, which covers an area of 85,983.44 square decimeters, of
which 15,161.66 square decimeters belong to the actual building of
the said Alcázar, and the remaining 60,821m². and 78 dm² consti-
tute the gardens, pavilions and outbuildings existing in it. The geo-
metric shape of the site corresponds to an irregular polygon, and its
boundaries are: on his forehead with houses 9, 10 and 11 of the Patio
de Banderas and the Plaza del Triunfo, house No. 1 of Calle Manara,
No. 3 of Plaza de la Contratación, Miranda Dean Street which has
facade, no houses 9 and 11 C / San Gregorio and # 2 of the Plaza de
Andalusia and houses No. 1, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31,
33, 35, 37, 39 San Fernando street which has only ground floor facade
marked with the number three; on the left with houses 7, 8, 9 and 11
of the Patio de Banderas, nameless alley Heritage property of the Re-
public who has facade houses No. 1, 2 and 3 of that alley, house No. 4
4-2ª, 6, 8 street Life, Alley Water Plaza de Alfaro, Jardines de Murillo,
who has front and rest with the Gardens of Catalina de Ribera.
After the civil war, the Act of March 7, 1940 of the Head of State
created the National Heritage and proceeded to its regulation. The
Alcázar of Seville is not mentioned at any point in the article but,
instead, there is a reference to other urban estates in the city. This
Act did not include the Alcázar in its field, not because it was not
covered, but because only expressly references were made to urban
estates in Sevilla, ie, houses of Patio de Banderas that had not been
included in the assignement made to the City Council, despite the
requests. The palace had been given in 1931 and the preamble of
the Law of March 7, 1940 relates to the goods to which application
varies gave the Law of March 22, 1932.
According to some authors, the composition of the Decree of seizure
of the Palace by the City Council posed a defect in an essential way. In
it, the assignment of the Palace and Gardens is declared, but not of the
Huertas or the houses of Patio de Banderas. Both the Huertas and the
houses of Patio de Banderas were productive assets, useful for the gov-
ernment of the Republic who benefited from their exploitation. At this
time, the Huertas, still existing, occupied most of the current gardens
so the transfer only referred to the gardens created before the decree of
1931, ie, current gardens nearest to the palace would refer, leaving out-
side the assignment to all the southern and eastern sector where, at that
time, the Huertas de la Alcoba and Retiro were located. In the absence
of a clear and precise delimitation, the City interpreted that the assign-
ment referred to the whole of the Alcázar, except for the houses of the
Patio de Banderas, taking possession of all the space currently occupied
by the Gardens without excluding areas which at that time they cor-
responded to the Huertas and that during the first half of the century
were transformed into gardens. According to other authors, the argu-
ment of the gardens of the Alcazar claims no value, since the scripture
clearly marked the boundary of the assigned, making it coincide with
the rear of the odd houses in Calle San Fernando
Sale of the Southern strip of Jardines del Alcázar
By Decree Law of the PrimeMinister of February 21st 1952, was author-
ized Board of Directors of National Heritage the disposal of a strip of
land with an area of 4,056m2 in the Huerta del Alcázar of Seville, south
of and limitedby the same parallel to themedians of the houses onCalle
San Fernando, fourteenmeters away from this line, as requested by the
Hon. City Council of Seville and with the favorable reports of the Di-
rectorate General of Fine Arts and the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de
San Fernando.
The physical segregation of the land, whose alienation authorized
the Decree of 1952, was not performed until 1964 when the brick
wall that now separates the houses of the Jardines del Alcázar was
built.
On March 9th 1963, the Project for the construction of the sepa-
ration wall between the gardens and the segregated land was ap-
proved.
URBAN BACKGROUND OF THE SECTOR.
Following the disappearance of the walls in the nineteenth cen-
tury, prompting the opening the outside of the city, there were a
series of actions and interventions that affect Sector 6 of the Real
Alcázar.
In the s. XIX, occurs a series of projects and works that mark the
current urban features of the sector.
The most interesting projects of this century are:
