Seville - Casa Lonja (Archivo General de Indias)

South of the Cathedral in Seville is the Plaza del Triunfo, on the southwest side of which is the Casa Lonja, the former Exchange, a High Renaissance building by Juan de Herrera (1583-98). On the first floor, housed here since 1781, is the General Archive of the Indies, with many thousands of documents relating to the discovery and conquest of America and the Philippines, including autograph documents of Magellan, Pizarro and Cortés, Columbus's diary and plans of Spanish foundations in the New World.