This is the 15th issue in the annual series dedicated to Spanish sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List, and features the Cathedral, Royal Alcázar & Archivo de Indias in Seville.

The city was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1987 for its gothic cathedral which houses the tomb of Christopher Columbus, the Royal Alcazar, a complex of palaces that has been used by Spanish royals for over six centuries centuries, and the Archivo de Indias, the Spanish-Renaissance former Consulate of the Merchants of Seville, which houses records of Spain’s 16th and 17th-century activities in the Americas.

 In 2010 the Spanish Royal Mint started a series of 2 euro commemorative coins dedicated to the Spanish sites on the UNESCO World Heritage List.