Plaza de España
Half-moon Regionalismo plaza of brick and tile, its canal edge lined with alcoves for every Spanish province.
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This guide to Plaza de España in Seville tracks a budget that spiraled from 600,000 pesetas to seventeen million, and the architect Anibal Gonzalez, who resigned in 1926 rather than keep defending numbers he could no longer manage. It follows Vicente Traver, who took over the project and carried it to completion in time for the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition, adding the fountain at the plaza's center. Walk the curve of the canal wall and count the forty-eight tiled alcoves, one for nearly every Spanish province.
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