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PARK OF MARIA LUISA

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Maria Luisa Park is located in Seville, is the public garden or park of the city's most famous and one of its green lungs. Recently it has been declared of Cultural Interest. In the city is preserved, other historic parks. The main public garden in the city for their meaning and age is Alameda de Hercules (1574), the oldest in the category of being public in Spain and Europe

History:

These gardens of Maria Luisa, which initially formed part of the private gardens of the Palacio de San Telmo, were donated in 1893 by the Infanta María Luisa Fernanda de Borbón (Duchesse de Montpensier) to the city. It was renovated by the French engineer Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier, curator of the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, which gave a touch of romance, inspired by the gardens of the Generalife, the Alhambra and the Alcazar of Seville. In the park opened squares in Spain and America, which constitute one of its main attractions. It opened on April 18, 1914.

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Has an extensive plant variety, very lush in many parts, clear in others so invites the walker to enjoy a peaceful day relaxing on the grass.
Packed with multiple avenues and roundabouts, each has an appropriate name for what is widely known to outsiders as Seville and the relationship is exposed below.
It also contains a variety of bird species among which stand out the peacocks and songbirds, swans and ducks waiting patiently for a walker feed them with grains sold in the vicinity or bring from home (typically pan).
Their sources are adding a touch arabesque peace sound and relaxation that can be enjoyed among its many banks and retailers tilework depicting works of literature and other arts where you can rest quietly.
After a pleasant walk through its streets with famous names nominated, you get to the Plaza de America where you can enjoy going in two of the most famous museums, the Arts and Traditions and the Archaeological and venue of the Exhibition Iberoamericana, 1929.
The Plaza of America has a particular characteristic, his pigeons, which the group forms a white carpet whose appetite is difficult to satisfy. For this reason the park in general is also known by the nickname of "park pigeons."


 
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