Type: GARDEN DISTRICT
Location: Between Paseo de las Delicias, Rome Avenue and Paseo de Cristina
Access: Lines 5,40,41,42, C3, C4
Extension: 8100

In July 1830 the city inaugurated the Hall named Cristina, in honor of that was the wife of Fernando VII: Cristina of Orleans. Under the direction of the architect Melchior Cano and Claudio botanical advice Boutelou, the new public space was a result of works undertaken by the then Assistant city: D. José Manuel de Arjona that they began the expansion and enhancement of the Paseo del Rio, of which these gardens were heading for completion in the area of the former sale of Eritaña (now Glorieta de Mexico), another area design Garden: Gardens of Delight (described elsewhere). Both along with the ride itself, were the meeting place par excellence of Seville society in the first half of the nineteenth century. With the exhibition of 1929 and the subsequent construction of the Hotel Cristina Hotel Alfonso XIII and the lost gardens of the surface extending to the Torre del Oro and thus closer links with the River.

Today the gardens are developed enrolled in the triangle that have been finally reduced. The axis of the composition of the corner of Paseo de las Delicias and Avenida de Roma and over the same children's play areas are newly installed and several beds with varied vegetation.

The whole of the garden features a facade to the outside made with one of the most characteristic species of the city, the plane tree (Platanus x hybrida). Large tree that can reach up to 40 meters high, the banana can be found in many of the parks and avenues of the city plant is now an image associated with the urban landscape despite suffering from various diseases and are being treated, which has led to having to remove many copies unrecoverable. Some of these huge bananas come from the original landscaping given its size, being the oldest trees in the city. There are also copies of Platanus orientalis and remarkable specimens of pine (Pinus pinea) and casuarina (Casuarina cunninghamiana).

Inside the gardens you can find up to fifty different species. Struck by the beautiful examples of pica-pica (Lagunaria patersonii) and the other umbrella of China (Firmiana simplex) and a lonely ombú (Phytolacca dioica). The Troan (Ligustrum ovalifolium) and myrtle (Myrtus comunnis) define as a hedge of the garden beds, which are distributed: the yellow-flowered lantana (Lantana camara var. Flava) scene groups or snowballs ( Viburnum opulus) which are situated nearby, and copies deciduous shrub with pink flowers of the species Weigelia florida, located at the corner of Paseo de las Delicias the Paseo de Cristina. Finally it should be noted, among other plants, the spirals (spiraea cantoniensis) with its showy clusters of white flowers.
 
The gardens combine in a classic design with the varied vegetation, clear pond affiliation regionalism, the beautiful newly restored pergola, the bust of Emilio Castelar, the tour spent in 1981 to Vicente Aleixandre, Nobel Prize for Literature, and the bust Adriano Sevilla poet's Valley, near a small kiosk that until recently housed a very complete weather station consulted for Seville.