Real Fábrica de Tabacos

The 18th-century Royal Tobacco Factory, now part of the University of Seville — once the largest industrial building in Spain, complete with moats, courtyards, and its own defenses, and immortalized as the workplace of the fictional Carmen. Today students cross the same vast halls where thousands once rolled cigars. The scale alone astonishes: a self-contained city of stone built for a single industry. For visitors, it's free to wander during university hours — a chance to walk the grand courtyards and corridors of a Baroque-era megastructure, with the romance of Bizet's opera lingering in its history.