Calle Mateos Gago

Calle Mateos Gago is a short street in Seville running from the Cathedral and the Giralda into the Santa Cruz quarter, and holds one of the city's densest concentrations of tapas bars. It is named after Francisco Mateos Gago Fernandez, a theologian, canon of Seville Cathedral and founder of the city's Academy of Archaeological Studies, honoured with the naming in 1893; it had previously been called Comunero and before that consisted of two separate lanes. It was widened in the 1920s ahead of the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition, which produced its present semi-pedestrian layout. Buildings along it include the shell-faced Casa de las Conchas and the seventeenth-century Church of Santa Cruz, and remains of the old Garcia de Jofre baths survive inside one of the bars. The bars each keep their own specialities and serve Andalusian dishes and local wines, busiest at lunchtime and in the evening. The nearest public transport is the Puerta de Jerez stop on Metrocentro tram line T1.