The Naval Museum Torre of gold (Seville), is located within the defensive Torre del Oro, a symbol of the city, along the River Guadalquivir and the bullring, the Real Maestranza in Seville, Spain.
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Among its objects can be observed remains fossilized sea, nautical gear mechanisms, compasses, figureheads, paintings and prints with a maritime theme, old nautical charts, historical documents ... on the walls and flooring.
In summary highlights on the ground floor: a sixteenth-century cannon, Renaissance, anchors, river levels made in the nineteenth century, all by anonymous authors, there are also tiles of the Charterhouse made in the nineteenth century Romantic style its author was the Marquis de Pickman merchant (owner of the tile factory de la Cartuja).
On the first floor: a reproduction of the first scientific map of the world (XVI century) and Renaissance by Diego Ribero, a figurehead of the nineteenth century classical style, nautical flags and display cases with models of ships.
Among the interesting displays that contain these ship models include in particular a passenger steamship, the "Real San Fernando, Spanish construction which made its first service on July 16, 1817, another highlight is the model yacht "Giralda", where King Alfonso XIII sail with Don Juan de Bourbon (grandfather and father respectively of King Juan Carlos I).
He also teaches a bit of naval history of Seville, its river and the importance it had at the time of the Spanish empire in the Indies and the passage left by famous marine.
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