---
node: spot_seville_plaza_de_espana_seville
type: spot
slug: plaza_de_espana_seville
destination: dest_seville
title: "Plaza de España"
lead: "The Plaza de España was built for the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition as Spain's own pavilion, a semicircle 200 metres across with a canal and four bridges. Its forty-eight tiled alcoves show a scene from the history of each Spanish province."
published: 2026-08-12
updated: 2026-08-12
image_file: spot_seville_plaza_de_espana_seville.jpg
image_source: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:9._Mai_1929,_an_diesem_Tag_wurde_die_Iberoamerikanische_Ausstellung_in_Sevilla_er%C3%B6ffnet._02.jpg"
image_author: "Holger Uwe Schmitt"
image_license: "CC BY-SA 4.0"
---

## 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.