Overview
Aníbal González designed it in brick, tile and ironwork, mixing Renaissance, Baroque and Mudéjar deliberately as a summary of Spanish building. The semicircle faces the Guadalquivir and the Americas, which was the point of the exposition. Rowing boats work the canal, and the tiled benches are used by Sevillanos as much as visitors — people look up their own province and sit in it.
Highlights
Find your province, or the one you have been to, and take the bench; that is what the alcoves are for. The upper gallery is open and gives the semicircle in one sweep. The María Luisa park beside it is the shaded half of the visit and is where to go when the plaza’s tiles start radiating heat.