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GARDENS OF MURILLO

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All the Gardens of  Murillo and the walk of Ribera of Seville, are located between the Avenida Menendez Pelayo, the walls of the gardens of the Alcazar of Seville and the Santa Cruz. The whole of this garden is divided into two parts, the Paseo Catalina de Ribera and Murillo Gardens itself. The prior Seville City Councilman Baldomero Laguillo Bonilla was the one who proposed the name Jardines de Murillo such gardens found near the birthplace of the famous painter Bartolome Esteban Murillo.

Paseo de Catalina de Ribera:

The origin of the Paseo de Catalina de Ribera is on assignment in 1862, part of the Huerta del Retiro del Alcázar. This public space, who came to mitigate the narrowness of the urban fabric of surrounding neighborhoods, did not have a special management. In the late nineteenth century embarked on a first draft of the landscaping and furnishings at the time called "Walk of mourning" and, in 1920, due to the interventions made in view of the Latin American Exhibition in Seville, the architect Juan Talavera and Heredia, notorious representative of historicism, regionalism, formalizes the traces preserved today.
The layout plan of the Paseo de Catalina de Ribera has a clear longitudinal layout, designed for transit, while the response Murillo gardens, its location and design, to a more secluded site. The tour is organized by a central axis and two secondary axes, parallel to it and arranged on both sides, which are set by parterres bordered by railings and tile factory. The central axis is interrupted at its midpoint by a large circular area centered by a fountain, also circular, on which stand atop a pedestal with busts of Columbus and the Catholic Kings, two columns supporting an entablature surmounted by the figure of a lion and half shaft, the prows of ships. The monument, which provides the vertical element of compensation composition to walk, was designed by architect Talavera and executed by sculptor Lorenzo Coullaut-Varela, and is dedicated to Christopher Columbus, in line with the events of the Latin American Exhibition of 1929, when in issue. Very close to the monumental fountain is the source wall, curtain wall attached to the gardens of the Alcázar, dedicated to Catalina de Ribera, a benefactor of the city with the founding of the Hospital of the Five Wounds. It has an architectural style designed by the same neomannerism Talavera y Heredia with paintings alluding to the lady by the painter Locar Juan Miguel Sanchez, plus the remains of another source of the XVI century.

Jardines de Murillo:

The gardens are also a result of a transfer in 1911 of another portion, located northwest of the Huerta del Retiro del Alcázar, have a length of 8,854 meters square, then built a new wall enclosing the gardens of the Alcázar, from Water alley to the Paseo de Catalina de Ribera, as it is today. The gardens were also designed by Juan Talavera y Heredia, a few years before the Tour. Murillo's gardens have a composition based on grid roads and pavements formed by hedges, in its meetings, creating octagonal gazebos in which central banks have sources covered tile factory. The resulting beds are occupied by dense masses of vegetation that give the room an intimate atmosphere.
Among the highlights the roundabout open spaces devoted to the painter José García Ramos is defined by archways and walls in the existing tile panels that recreate famous works of the artist, executed by other master painters of the environment as Miguel Angel Pino Sarda, Santiago Martinez, Alfonso Grosso Sánchez, Manuel Vigil, and Diego López. Nearby, is a regional style building dedicated to housing. The gardens end up in the plaza Refiners, presided over by a statue of Don Juan Tenorio.


 
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