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Plaza de España in Seville

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Plaza de España in Seville – Visitors´ Guide

Its blue and white benches represent the 48 Spanish provinces, with their corresponding maps

Recommended tours to enjoy Plaza de España

La Plaza de España is an open air monument and it offers free access. Best tours or activities to enjoy it are walking tours, cycling tours, etc. 

Hop on hop off bus in Seville

A perfect choice to avoid too much walking. Stops include all major attractions like Plaza de España
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Seville´s highlights by bike

Enjoy a fun bike tour and Seville´s top highlights including Triana, Maria Luisa Park and Plaza España
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Plaza de España is a beutiful location worth mentioning is the Plaza de Espana, built for the Ibero-American exposition in 1929 and inaugurated by King Alfonso XIII. With a semicircular shape and made of brick, marble, and pottery, this monument also has a Renaissance and Baroque flare in its towers.

It is called Plaza de España because of its blue and white benches that represent the 48 Spanish provinces, with their corresponding maps and mosaics alluding to the history of these provinces. 

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The whole plaza looks over the Guadalquivir River – a natural exit towards America; it represents the ties Spain has with its previous colonies.

The Plaza de España in Seville is surrounded by a stream and four bridges, and in the center of the Plaza you can find a beautiful fountain. It is precisely on these bridges that you will see Anakin Skywalker escorting Princess Amidala through the city of Theed, capital of the Naboo planet in the II episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. This is why some may call this plaza, Plaza Naboo.

On top of the Star Wars scene taking place here, scenes from the 1962 movie Lawrance of Arabia were also filmed in Seville, as well the Spanish movie Belmonte from 1994, the Korean movie Lifting de Corazon in 2005 and the Norwegian movie La Joven de las Naranjas in 2008. Not to forget mentioning one of the latest Hollywood films of the provocative director Sacha Baron Cohen “The Dictator”, who turned the plaza into a palace courtyard in a Middle Eastern country in 2011. The Plaza the España is one of the tourist attractions in Spain that has been used more in movies filmed in Spain.

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