Tourist attraction
Casino de la Exposición
Gta. San Diego, S/N, Casco Antiguo, 41013 Sevilla
Circular neobaroque salon built as a 1929 world's-fair pavilion, its dome ringed with a king's honorary box.
This guide to the Casino de la Exposición in Seville starts with a gilded royal box built for King Alfonso the Thirteenth, who sat in it on opening night, the 9th of May 1929. You'll hear how the building's neobaroque grandeur was designed to look older than it really was, part of Seville's Ibero American Exposition, and how the commission passed from architect Anibal Gonzalez to Vicente Traver y Tomas. It traces what that architectural trick was meant to prove to the fair's visiting dignitaries, and what the circular salon hosts today.
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