Royal Alcázar of Seville

The Royal Alcázar of Seville is a historic royal palace complex in Seville, Andalusia, occupying the site of an earlier Islamic citadel begun in the 10th century. It was successively developed under the Abbadids and the Almohads and was substantially rebuilt after the Castilian conquest of 1248, with major Mudéjar-style palatial work undertaken under Pedro I in the 1360s. It remains one of the official residences of the Spanish royal family and a visible landmark in 20th-century travel footage. Regarding folkloric and paranormal associations, the supplied sources do not contain eyewitness reports, named apparitions, or investigative claims of haunting tied to the Alcázar. What is documented in the provided materials is a literary appearance: a short story titled "The Alcazar of Seville and the Tale of the Green Taper" by Joseph Blanco is listed in the 19th-century English anthology Forget Me Not; A Christmas and New Year's Present. The anthology entries confirm the tale’s circulation in Anglophone romantic/literary contexts but the story text is not provided in the cited sources, so any supernatural content within that tale is unverified by the supplied material. Because the only confirmed paranormal-related linkage in the notes is a literary reference (title and author confirmed), this entry treats the Alcázar primarily as a historically significant palace that has inspired literary legend rather than as a site with documented hauntings in the supplied documentation.