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Architectural Building Attractions In Seville

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Seville is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville, Spain. It is situated on the plain of the river Guadalquivir. The inhabitants of the city are known as sevillanos or hispalenses, after the Roman name of the city, Hispalis. Seville has a municipal population of about 690,000 as of 2016, and a metropolitan population of about 1.5 million, making it the fourth-largest city in Spain and the 30th most populous municipality in the European Union. Its Old Town, with an area of 4 square kilometres , contains three UNESCO World Heritage Sites: the Alcázar palace complex, the Cathedral and the General...
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Architectural Building Attractions In Seville

  • 1. Plaza de Espana Seville
    The Plaza de España is a plaza in the Parque de María Luisa , in Seville, Spain, built in 1928 for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929. It is a landmark example of the Regionalism Architecture, mixing elements of the Renaissance Revival and Moorish Revival styles of Spanish architecture.
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  • 2. Torre Giralda Seville
    Joseph Cordero was a clockmaker who built the clock tower of the Giralda in Seville. He also made the gate of the chapel of St. Peter in the Cathedral of Seville, the gate of the chancel of the Charterhouse of Jerez de la Frontera, copper boxes priory of El Puerto de Santa María, and the clock tower of the convent of San Francisco in his hometown. He was a religious layman.
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  • 3. Metropol Parasol Seville
    Metropol Parasol is a wooden structure located at La Encarnación square, in the old quarter of Seville, Spain. It was designed by the German architect Jürgen Mayer and completed in April 2011. It has dimensions of 150 by 70 metres and an approximate height of 26 metres and claims to be the largest wooden structure in the world. Its appearance, location, delays and cost overruns in construction resulted in much public controversy. The building is popularly known as Las Setas de la Encarnación .
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  • 4. Museum of Fine Arts, Sevilla Seville
    The Museum of Fine Arts of Seville or Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla is a museum in Seville, Spain, a collection of mainly Spanish visual arts from the medieval period to the early 20th century, including a choice selection of works by artists from the so-called Golden Age of Sevillian painting during the 17th century, such as Murillo, Zurbarán, Francisco de Herrera the younger, and Valdés Leal. The building itself was built in 1594, but the museum was founded in 1839, after the desamortizacion or shuttering of religious monasteries and convents, collecting works from across the city and region. The building it is housed in was originally home to the convent of the Order of the Merced Calzada de la Asunción, founded by St. Peter Nolasco during the reign of King Ferdinand III of Castil...
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  • 5. Torre del Oro Seville
    The Torre del Oro is a dodecagonal military watchtower in Seville, southern Spain. It was erected by the Almohad Caliphate in order to control access to Seville via the Guadalquivir river. Constructed in the first third of the 13th century, the tower served as a prison during the Middle Ages. Its name comes from the golden shine it projected on the river, due to its building materials . The tower is divided into three levels, the first level, dodecagonal, was built in 1220 by order of the Almohad governor of Seville, Abù l-Ulà; As for the second level, of only 8 meters, also dodecagonal was built by Peter of Castile in the fourteenth century, a hypothesis that has been confirmed by archaeological studies; The third and uppermost being circular in shape was added after the previous third ...
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  • 6. Casa de Pilatos Seville
    La Casa de Pilatos is an Andalusian palace in Seville, Spain, which serves as the permanent residence of the Dukes of Medinaceli. The building is a mixture of Italian Renaissance and Spanish Mudéjar styles. It is considered the prototype of the Andalusian palace. Casa de Pilatos has around 150 different azulejo designs of the 1530s made by the brothers Diego and Juan Pulido, one of the largest azulejo collections in the world.
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  • 8. Iglesia de San Bernardo Seville
    The Iglesia-Parroquia Matriz de Nuestra Señora de La Concepción is a Roman Catholic church located in the city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna . This church is almost a twin of the Church of the Conception of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. It was the first parish was established in Tenerife. The site of the church was established by the conqueror Alonso Fernández de Lugo after the celebration of the feast of Corpus Christi in 1496. The Church of the Conception was founded in 1511. Today people can climb the tower to view much of the city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna. It houses the largest bell in the Canary Islands. The Church of the Conception was declared of a site of cultural interest, specifically in the category of Monument in 1948. Inside the temple is the miraculous oil of St. John the...
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  • 12. Santa Maria de las Cuevas Monastery (La Cartuja) Seville
    The Monastery of Santa María de las Cuevas, also known as the Monastery of the Cartuja , is a religious building on the Isla de La Cartuja in Seville, southern Spain. The Andalusian Contemporary Art Center is now located on this site.
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  • 13. Costurero de la Reina Seville
    The Costurero de la Reina is a building constructed in the late nineteenth century in the gardens of the Palace of San Telmo, now the Maria Luisa Park in Seville, Spain. This unique building takes the form of a small hexagonal castle with turrets at the corners.The building was the guard house or garden retreat. It is the oldest building in Seville in the neomudéjar style. The name comes from a popular tradition that Mercedes of Orléans, the future wife of King Alfonso XII of Spain, retired to the pavilion where she passed her time sewing. The reality is more prosaic. The formal name is the Pavilion of San Telmo. Mercedes died of typhus about fifteen years before the building was erected in 1893.Nowadays the Costurero de la Reina lodges the tourist information office on the ground floor....
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  • 14. Torre de la Plata Seville
    The Torre de la Plata is an octagonal military tower in Al-Andalus, located in present-day Seville, southern Spain. It was constructed by the Almohad Caliphate.
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  • 15. Casa de la Provincia Seville
    The Casa consistorial de Sevilla is a Plateresque-style building in Plaza Nueva in Seville , currently home of the city's government . The building has a large façade divided into five modules, decorated by Plateresque reliefs; these include grotesque motifs inspired by Italian Florentine architecture, heraldry symbols, allegories of Justice and Good Government and depictions of mythological or historical characters such as Hercules, Julius Caesar and Charles V.
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