Maria Luisa Park This park bears the name of Princess Maria Luisa of Orleans, who donated half the gardens of the San Telmo Palace to the city of Seville in 1893. The French architect Forestier, carried out a series of modifications to the gardens for the Ibero-American exhibition in 1929. The most astonishing parts of this park however are
Plaza de España and Plaza de America, which were built by Anibal Gonzalez . The semi-circle has a small canal once used for rowing. The most impressive feature are the tiled benches depicting the 50 provinces of Spain, each with its own historical event. Recently renovated it shines in all its colours.
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Popular Arts Museum Plaza de America, 3
Tel: +34 954 232 576
(tourist map Nr. 28 D8) Price: FREE for EU citizens, 1.50€ for non-EU Facts:
Located in the mudejar Pavillon of the 1929 Ibero-American exhibition, this is an exceptional interesting ethnographic museum which gives a good insight to rural and urban Sevillan life. Several pieces of furniture and household items are exhibited in the basement areas as well as reconstructed workshops, such as a guitar makers and a wine bodega. There is a collection of Sevillanas feria posters and on the top floor, various items of clothing which the Sevillanos wore through the centuries.
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Archeological museum
Plaza de America
Tel: +34 954 232 401
(tourist map Nr. 29 D8) Price: FREE for EU citizens, 1.50€ for non-EU Facts:
Located in the Renaissance Pavillon of the 1929 Ibero-American exhibition, it has a good selection of Roman findings from Italica and Carmona. Phoenician jewelery and pottery as well as prehistoric findings and fossils. are on exhibit.
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