The Plaza de España is framed in the Maria Luisa Park. It was designed by architect Aníbal González as an emblematic space for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929. Its semi-elliptical shape is a symbol of the embrace between the ancient city and its colonies. It has an area of 50,000 square meters, along its perimeter there is a 515-meter-long canal that can be crossed through four bridges that represent the ancient kingdoms of Spain. (León, Castilla, Aragón and Navarra).. It is presided over by a central building that in turn is framed by two baroque style towers more than 70 meters high.
It is Made of brick and covered by a gallery with coffered ceilings and attached to the wall there are 48 benches dedicated to a Spanish province. There should have been 50 banks, but when the square was built, the Canary Islands only had one province (now it has two: Gran Canaria and Tenerife) and on the other hand Seville is not represented, since it is represented in four other murals in the square. On the benches there are 48 busts inside medallions that represent great figures of history and culture such as Sorolla, Velázquez or Quevedo.
After the Ibero-American Exposition, the building was going to house the Labor University of Seville but in the end it was distributed. between different official organizations.
The Plaza de España has been the setting for famous films such as “Lawrence of Arabia”, or the episode of “Star Wars: Attack of the Drones” .
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