Parque de María Luisa

Maria Luisa park 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 its meaning and antiquity is Alameda de Hercules (1574), the oldest in the category of being public in Spain and Europe.

These gardens of Maria Luisa, originally 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 romantic touch, inspired by the gardens of the Generalife, the Alhambra and the Alcazar of Seville. In the park opened places in Spain and America, which are one of its main attractions. It opened on April 18, 1914.