Parque de María Luisa

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Parque de Maria Luisa is a roughly 100-acre public park in Seville, built from gardens donated to the city in 1893 by the Infanta Maria Luisa Fernanda.

French landscape architect Nicolas Forestier and Spanish architect Anibal Gonzalez redesigned the grounds for the 1929 Ibero-American Exhibition, adding the park’s fountains, ceramics, and gazebos. The park’s centerpiece, the semicircular Plaza de Espana, is lined with tiled alcoves representing each Spanish province.

Most visitors spend about 2 hours here, enough time to wander the gardens and take in the Plaza de Espana, longer with a stop at the Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions inside the park.