Seville is a place.
Seville ( [ səˈvɪl ] Sevilla [ seˈβiʎa ] , [ seˈβi ʝa ] ) is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville , Spain . Seville has a municipal population of about 703,000 , and a metropolitan population of about 1.5 million , making it the fourth-largest city in Spain and the 30th most populous municipality in the European Union . Seville was founded as the Roman city of Hispalis . After the discovery of the Americas , Seville became one of the economic centres of the Spanish Empire as its port monopolised the trans-oceanic trade and the Casa de Contratación ( House of Trade ) wielded its power , opening a Golden Age of arts and literature .