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A seventeenth-century charitable hospital in Seville's Arenal quarter, founded in 1674 by Miguel de Manara, a reformed libertine whose conversion to pious austerity allegedly inspired the Don Juan legend. The hospital was established to provide care for the sick, the dying, and the destitute, and it continues to operate as a charitable institution today -- one of the oldest continuously functioning hospitals in Spain -- while its baroque church contains an extraordinary programme of paintings by...