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The parks of Seville. Seville is well known for its parks and gardens, which quite often have the Arabic style and seem to be true oases after the everyday hustle of the big city. The most famous of them is surely the Maria Luisa Park, created for the 1929 Exposición Ibero-Americana World's Fair. The park was a part of the San Telmo complex and later it was presented to the city by Princess Maria Luisa. Before the opening of the fair it was laid out once again by Frenchmen Forestier. The Maria Luisa Park has the square of 400 000 m2 and is the largest green zone in Seville. On the edge of the park, not far from the river, you'll find a small pink-and-yellow building - de Costurero de la Reina. There Queen Maria liked to have rest and do some fancywork on her own. Nowadays there takes place the tourist office.

The oldest park of Seville, Delicias de Arjona, is located between the Maria Luisa Park and the River Guadalquivir. It was opened for visitors in the beginning of the 19th century. At the other bank of the river you'll see Parque de los Principes, laid out in 1973. Even younger is El Prado de San Sebastian Park, situated at one of the vacant sites of Seville. It's planted with palm trees and can boast of lots of small ponds. Near the Alcázar Palace take place the Murillo Gardens, called after the artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. The park was laid out in a typical style of Seville: there are a lot of palms, arcades, flowers and sculptures by local masters.
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