Gardens of the Delicias of Arjona, are in Seville, located near the Parque de María Luisa, is popularly known as the Seville Gardens of Delight and was the first that attempted to exploit space as green space and gardens in the eighteenth century, while expanding the city.
It was not until the year 1825 when there would be the most important change in the park, adding to the romance that still survives over time. It also was fitted with a watering too novel to be a steam engine pumping water. In 1864 he incorporated some sculptures from the Archbishop's Palace after the fire Umbrete suffered in 1762, are works of art by Italian rococo, classicist and pagan themes were placed on pedestals in the Rococo style.
Next to the year 1929 is agreed to remodel to add to the Ibero-American Exposition to be held in the city.
In the year 2004 was declared of Cultural Interest in the Historic Garden category.
Description:
From east to west, the Garden of Delights are sorted in the following sequence: a band extended parallel to the Avenida de la Palmera, where the plot is more romantic character, an effect achieved through the management of tracks on a circular pavilions connected by paths straight or curved path. They are preserved sculptures fountains or pedestals that give it a sought scenic character. The first one, dedicated to Venus, has a central sculpture on a high pedestal, the second to Urania, also composed of central sculpture on pedestal, and the third, is a central fountain with a sculpture of a child playing with a conch. Lebanon After the ride there are three more roundabouts on the sidewall near the Avenida de la Palmera, while on the contrary appear only two. Of those devotes a painter Joaquín Sorolla and one to the god Pan Of the latter, the first is square, where there is a stand decorated with pedestals and sculptures in the corners, joining another circular. Finally found a space arranged around a central rectangular pond.
The area in the rear sector as described, extended to the western edge of the garden, has extensive lawns where there are three roundabouts and a clear management consists of dirt roads. This area belonged to the space that was the old pot, which is why management has a very distinct to the rest of the garden to be the latest in the process of incorporation in the remodeling of all landscaped areas that compose it and not filed an arrangement of symmetrical character.
As renovated areas for the implementation of some of the flags of the Latin American Exhibition of 1929, we should discuss the southern and northern ends of the garden itself. In the first were located in Morocco and Colombia, preserving, around them, the nature of gardens in raised structures scattered and free. In the opposite sector, the main alteration of the garden was carried out following the construction of the flag of Argentina. This construction of major development plan, altered the space that is mainly around the front of the main facade, to which access is designed for the road as a way station that derives from the Avenida de la Palmera , similar to that raised on the sidewalk border, coinciding with one of the entries in Maria Luisa Park. Closer to the corner of the garden by the north end is the flag of Guatemala, and then, a small roundabout.
At present, and covering the entire floor of what is considered a historical garden, the Garden of Earthly Delights Arjona, Seville, account for part of the city in which it is located, a large garden area which has with interesting botanical and other street furniture items at the time of its original design. Although separated from the extensive Parque de María Luisa by the Avenida de la Palmera, connected with this sector intensive green areas of heritage interest of the city, which despite the different reasons that created them, they had a union that the implementation of some of the flags of the Latin American Exhibition of 1929 gave a unitary character.