The giants' shade
Century rubber figs and palms weaving a living roof.
Roberta Morea from Madrid — CC BY-SA 2.0 · Jocelyn Erskine-Kellie from London, UK — CC BY-SA 2.0 · Ángel Fernández Alonso angelfernandezalonso — CC0 · Максим Массалитин (Maxim Massalitin) — CC BY 2.0
Enter from the Plaza de España, aim for Plaza América along the central axis and its ponds, return by the shaded edges — a free ninety minutes. Family bikes and carriages rent at the gates for wheeled circuits.
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María Luisa is Seville's great oasis: the San Telmo palace orchards given to the city by Princess María Luisa (1893), turned by Paris's Bois de Boulogne forester into an Andalusi-French Eden — dense shade of giant rubber figs and palms, paths opening onto ponds, ceramic pavilions and mossy fountains, and white doves holding their square by inherited right. It is above all the hot south's lung: in forty-degree summers this shade is life itself, its carriages and duck ponds family-tempered. Deep inside, pink Plaza América sits between the archaeology museum (Carthaginian and Tartessian treasures) and the folk arts museum. With the Plaza de España on its edge it forms the ideal Sevillian late afternoon — and its hidden delight: a hundred ceramic benches, each an azulejo tableau telling a book or legend.
Century rubber figs and palms weaving a living roof.
The pink square of white doves between two museums.
Azulejo kiosks and fountains scattered in the green.
Paseo de las Delicias, 41013 Seville