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Italica is the site of a Roman city at Santiponce, founded in 206 BC by Scipio for veterans of the Second Punic War and the birthplace of the emperors Trajan and Hadrian. Visitors walk its grid of streets, see houses with mosaic floors and enter the amphitheatre, which once seated about 25,000 spectators.
The Museum of Fine Arts of Seville occupies the former convent of La Merced Calzada, rebuilt in the early 17th century by Juan de Oviedo, and opened as a museum in 1835. Its galleries and three cloisters hold Spanish art from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century, with a large group of Sevillian Baroque paintings by Murillo, Zurbarán and Valdés Leal.
Setas de Sevilla, designed as the Metropol Parasol by the German architect Jürgen Mayer, is a timber structure of six parasols over the Plaza de la Encarnación, completed in 2011. About 150 by 70 metres and 26 metres high, it shelters a market and the Antiquarium with Roman remains, and walkways on its roof look out over the old town.
The Plaza de toros de la Real Maestranza is Seville's bullring, owned by the Real Maestranza de Caballería, a noble riding corporation. Built in stages from the mid-18th century and closed in 1881, it seats about 12,000 behind a white and ochre Baroque front on the Paseo de Colón. Audio-guided visits cover the stands, the ring and exhibition rooms.
Casa de Pilatos is a palace in Seville built mainly in the 15th and 16th centuries by the Enríquez de Ribera family and still a residence of the Dukes of Medinaceli. It blends the Gothic-Mudéjar tradition with Italian Renaissance forms, around a main courtyard with a fountain, gardens and some 150 designs of 1530s azulejo tiles by Diego and Juan Pulido.
The General Archive of the Indies fills the former merchants' exchange of Seville, a Renaissance building designed by Juan de Herrera and built in the late 16th century. Founded by Charles III and opened in 1785, it keeps the records of the Spanish Empire in the Americas and Asia; visitors see the building and its exhibitions of documents.
The Royal Alcázar of Seville is a palace complex that grew out of the Islamic citadel begun in the 10th century and was rebuilt after the Castilian conquest of 1248. At its centre is the Mudéjar palace Pedro I built in the 1360s, around the Patio de las Doncellas, with Gothic and Renaissance halls and large gardens beside it.
The Plaza de España is a semicircular complex on the edge of the Parque de María Luisa, designed by Aníbal González and built between 1914 and 1928 for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929. Its brick buildings with two towers enclose a square with a central fountain and a canal crossed by four bridges, lined with tiled benches for the provinces of Spain.
The Parque de María Luisa is Seville's main public park, laid out on former gardens of the Palace of San Telmo that the Infanta María Luisa Fernanda gave to the city in 1893. Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier redesigned it from 1911 for the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition, with fountains, ponds, tiled benches, palms and orange trees around the Plaza de España and Plaza de América.
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