Isla Mágica

This guide to Isla Magica's El Dorado zone in Seville traces the Muisca ritual on Lake Guatavita, where a chief covered in gold dust offered emeralds and ornaments to the water, and how Spanish soldiers who arrived generations later turned rumor into the legend of a golden city. It follows the doomed 1545 attempt to drain the lake and connects that centuries-old obsession to the jungle zone built on Seville's old Expo grounds.