Close to the ruins is the convent of San Isidoro del Campo, founded in 1301 by Don Alonso Perez de Guzman, as a place of sepulture for him and his family. The establishment was peopled first by the Cistercians, later by the Hermits of St Jerome. The edifice presents the appearance of a fortified abbey of the Middle Ages, though not without traces of Mudejar influence. The church is Gothic, and divided into two naves, united by a transept, and constituting each a distinct church. One of these structures was built by the hero of Tarifa, Guzman the Good, and contains his tomb and that of his wife, together with a fine retablo by Montañes; the other, founded by the hero’s son, Don Juan Alonso Perez de Guzman, contains his tomb, marked by a fine recumbent figure, and that of Doña Urraca Osorio, burnt by order of Pedro the Cruel. In the cloisters of the convent are some mural paintings of the fifteenth century, which though much damaged repay inspection. With the excursion to Italica the traveller should combine a visit to the Cartuja, more properly called Santa Maria de las Cuevas. It lies close to the suburb of Triana. The monastery was founded in the first decade of the fifteenth century, at the instance of the great Archbishop Gonzalo de Mena, and became the burying-place of the Ribera family, whose magnificent tombs are now to be seen in the University Church. Of the original structure only a little antique chapel remains. The refectory, chapter-hall, and cloisters all date from a restoration effected by the first Marqués de Tarifa in the sixteenth century. The building became, in 1839, the seat of the pottery manufacture of the (then) English firm of Pickman & Co. The establishment has produced some fine porcelain, and is worth inspection by all those interested in the ceramic art. Pottery has been associated from time immemorial with this locality and the adjoining suburb of Triana, and it will be remembered that the patron saints of Seville, Justa and Rufina, were, according to tradition, potters by trade. [Illustration: PLATE 1. General View of Seville from the Giralda Tower, West Side of the City. First View.] [Illustration: PLATE 2. General View of Seville from the Giralda Tower, West Side of the City. Second View.] [Illustration: PLATE 3. General View of Seville from the Giralda Tower, East Side.] [Illustration: PLATE 4. General View of Seville from the Giralda Tower, Central Part of the City.] [Illustration: PLATE 5. General View of Seville from the Giralda Tower, North Side.] [Illustration: PLATE 6. Procession of the Conception of the Virgin passing through the Plaza de San Francisco.] [Illustration: PLATE 7. View of Seville.] [Illustration: PLATE 8. View of Seville.] [Illustration: PLATE 9. View of Seville.] [Illustration: PLATE 10. View of Seville.] [Illustration: PLATE 11. View of Seville.] [Illustration: PLATE 12. View of Seville.] [Illustration: PLATE 13. View of Seville.] [Illustration: PLATE 14.