The General Archive of the Indies in Seville was designed by Juan de Herrera, and Juan de Mijares began construction in 1584. Philip II commissioned it for Seville's merchant guild, the Consulado de mercaderes, and Charles III later created the archive. The infobox says 16th century, but the text says the building was finished in 1646.
The article calls the style Italianate Spanish Renaissance. It is stone and stucco with no sculptural decoration. It gives no building dimensions, but the archive holds about nine kilometers of shelving.
The merchants left by 1660. Murillo's painting academy operated there from 1660 to 1674. The archive opened in 1785, and a restoration ran from 2002 to 2004. It is a research library and archive holding 43,000 volumes, with digitization in progress. The article gives no hours.
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