Isla Mágica
Theme park zone modeled on the legendary golden city that once obsessed an empire of explorers.
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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.
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