The last visit of the day and just achieved a few minutes before its closure was to the Plaza de España the site of the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition World's Fair.
Aníbal González designed the Plaza de España, as the principal building on the edge Maria Luisa Park's to showcase Spain's industry and technology exhibits. He combined a mix of 1920s Art Deco and 'mock Mudejar', and Neo-Mudéjar styles. The Plaza de España complex is a huge half-circle with buildings running around the edge accessible over the moat by numerous tiled bridges. Inlet into the walls of the Plaza are many tiled alcoves, each representing a different province of Spain – the two photos are the alcoves for the Canaries and Cadiz.
The Plaza de España has been used as a filming location, including scenes for the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia (Seen) and Star Wars movie series (Not seen!!!).
Sadly we only had 10-minutes here in a day that was badly timed and we still had a long toilet stop on the way back to the ship. So a bit of a disappointing day but except to climb the Giralda Tower I’m not sure a revisit to Seville will be on my bucket list.
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