The aerial walkway
An undulating path over the timber with the Giralda in view — Seville from its sky.
Anual — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Holger Uwe Schmitt — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Holger Uwe Schmitt — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Holger Uwe Schmitt — CC BY-SA 4.0
Giant undulating timber in a historic square of a heritage-worshipping city — with doubled costs and delays: the perfect storm. Then time worked: shade in Seville's killing summer, the market returned to the square, the walkway opened a new sky — today its cursers defend it.
Directly after the big three: a perfect light hour between heavy monuments, and its night competes with nothing — make it any evening's close. With children it jumps the queue: walkway, lights and food market, effortless.
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"The mushrooms" — as Sevillians named them on sight — form the world's largest timber structure: six giant undulating parasols of latticed wood 26 metres high, landing in 2011 amid the old city and igniting the heritage-versus-modernity feud — settled by time in their favour: they became Seville's third icon. The winding walkway atop the parasols is the point: an aerial path curling with a circular view over the sea of white roofs to the Giralda — finest at night, when the canopy glows with a light show and the city glitters below; the evening ticket earns its difference. Beneath the modernity, the city's layers: the basement Antiquarium shows Roman Seville's mosaics and houses discovered during the dig — Rome to the Almohads to contemporary timber in one vertical column.
An undulating path over the timber with the Giralda in view — Seville from its sky.
The parasols glow in colour over sparkling roofs.
Roman Seville's mosaics in place beneath the mushrooms.
Plaza de la Encarnación, 41003 Seville