Free to enter. Beautiful old building housing invaluable documents from Spain's maritime history…read more The documents displayed are a very small selection of those contained in the repository and is changed over time. The second floor is beautiful with old paintings of Spanish conquistadors and officers. Need no more than an hour to cover this point of interest.

It was incredible seeing the Archives of Chris Columbus here!!!! It was like going to a library,…read morequite larger than expected, with all manuscripts of his journeys. Each volume is like a large dictionary or encyclopedia - and there must be thousands of volumes tightly packed around this library!!! Although you aren't able to touch them or look into each one, it's quite astonishing seeing the vastness and multitude of paperwork documented. You can also see the impressive chest, with several intricate locks, that I'm guessing held all the gold. Wow!!! There are also several paintings throughout these archives, of all the explorers of the era. It was nice to see a picture to the name of the explorers I had to report about in the 5th grade. This is an awesome, exquisite, and quiet retreat, should you need to step out of the hot sidewalks of Seville.