Parque de María Luisa
Landscaped nineteenth-century garden of ponds and pavilions that became the stage for a world's fair in nineteen twenty-nine.
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This guide to Parque de Maria Luisa in Seville opens on the ordinary land the Infanta Luisa Fernanda gave the city as a public park in 1893. It follows the French landscape architect Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier, who reshaped the gardens after 1911 into the layered, fountain-fed paths you're walking, borrowing the hushed geometry of Moorish courtyards. Alongside that work, it traces architect Anibal Gonzalez's decades-long push to raise more than a hundred pavilions and the Plaza de España along the park's edge.
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