"Don Juan Tenorio? Updates The Refiners Square is the unmistakable figure of the trickster par excellence Seville.
The statue was erected in 1974 by initiative of the company Arteconsa Seville, on the occasion of the forthcoming opening of new offices.
This sculptor Nicomedes Diaz Pike is actually a monument to Don Juan de Tirso de Molina, who achieved great fame thanks to the opera Don Giovanni of Mozart
.
But to be located in Seville can only represent to us by Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla, whose inspiration came while
stay at The Inn of Laurel .
Don Juan, which according to popular tradition born in the Plaza of the Venerable, and Don Luis bet that more women be the conquest.
Don Juan is the winner and is again challenged, this time to win a novice and the fiancee of Don Luis, Doña Ana
Dona Ines, the bride of Don Juan, had home in the Plaza Dona Elvira according to popular tradition, but she had since childhood in a convent.
After abducting
Doña Inés Convent and conquer Dona Ana, Don Juan wins the challenge.
Don Gonzalo de Ulloa, the father of Doña Inés, and Don Luis seek revenge, so trying to execute a Don Juan, he kills them and escapes.
On his return, years later, visiting the cemetery of the victims, which is also that of Doña Inés, who had died of love.
At a dinner also attended by the funerary statue of Don Gonzalo, it comes alive and is willing to carry Don Juan to hell for their sins, but at the last moment, see the soul of Doña Inés, who gets to Don John will regret all the harm done, up both the sky.
His statue still awaiting the passage of a woman who, unprepared, can fall on their networks, true to his legend.