María Luisa Park

Why go

María Luisa Park is a public park in Seville. Seville's city tourism site says it was originally part of the private gardens of the Palacio de San Telmo, opened as a public park in 1914 after the Infanta María Luisa Fernanda de Borbón gave the gardens, and was redesigned between 1912 and 1922 by the French landscape architect Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier. The same page says it covers more than 34 hectares, is protected as a Bien de Interés Cultural in the historic garden category, and was a principal setting of the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition, when it gained structures such as the Plaza de España and the Plaza de América. It names the Glorieta de Bécquer, the Fuente de las Ranas and the Isleta de los Patos among its features, and places the Archaeological Museum and the Museum of Popular Arts and Customs inside the park. The Plaza de España has its own record.