Seville Square Historic District

Seville Square Historic District is the oldest surviving neighbourhood in Pensacola, occupying a small area of the waterfront near the old city centre. The streets follow a Spanish colonial grid, and the buildings — a mix of surviving 18th and 19th century Creole cottages, Victorian houses, and later infill — give the neighbourhood a distinctive character found nowhere else in Florida.

The main draws are the historic museums around Seville Square itself (the Historic Pensacola Village, managed by the University of West Florida) and the restaurants and bars along Zarragossa and Government streets. The T.T. Wentworth Jr. Florida State Museum in the old city hall is the area's main institution. The whole district is walkable from downtown.

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Pensacola's claim to be "the oldest European settlement in the United States" is disputed by St. Augustine, which was settled in 1565 (six years after Pensacola's 1559 founding). The technical argument is that the 1559 settlement was abandoned within two years due to a hurricane, while St. Augustine's was continuous. Pensacola boosters point out that "settled" is doing a lot of work in that comparison. The Seville District's archaeology has found continuous habitation from the 1752 second founding and the street pattern is Spanish colonial, giving it a genuine claim on colonial-era character.