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Housed in a stately Renaissance building beside the cathedral in the heart of Seville, the Archivo General de Indias holds the documentary record of the Spanish empire in the Americas and the Philippines, one of the most important historical archives in the world and an inscribed UNESCO World Heritage Site. The building itself, the Casa Lonja de Mercaderes, was constructed in the late sixteenth century to designs associated with Juan de Herrera, the architect of El Escorial, originally as a merc...