Prayers answered

AFTER two years of searching, archaeologists have finally had their prayers answered and uncovered a rare medieval synagogue in the basement of a disco.

The 14th century building in Utrera (Sevilla) has also been used as a hospital, restaurant and home for abandoned children down the years. It is just one of a precious handful of medieval synagogues to have survived the aftermath of the expulsion of Spain’s

THE prestigious Latin Grammy awards are coming to Spain this November in a three-year deal - the first time they are being held outside the United States.

By Anthony Piovesan

Jews in 1492.

In his 1604 history of Utrera, Rodrigo Caro, a local priest, historian and poet, described an area of the city centre as it had been in earlier centuries, saying: “In that place, there were only foreign and Jewish people who had their synagogue where the Hospital de la Misericordia now stands”.

Utrera mayor Jose Maria

Villalobos said it was ‘now scientifically certain that we’re standing in a medieval synagogue right now’.