Plaza de Espana 4. Seville is a photograph by Jenny Rainbow which was uploaded on June 2nd, 2013.
Title
Plaza de Espana 4. Seville
Artist
Jenny Rainbow
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Plaza de Espana. Seville. Spain
The tiled 'Province Alcoves' along the walls of the Plaza de Espana.
The Plaza de Espana, designed by An�bal Gonzalez, was a principal building built on the Maria Luisa Park's edge to showcase Spain's industry and technology exhibits. Gonzalez combined a mix of 1920s Art Deco and 'mock Mudejar', and Neo-Mudejar styles. The Plaza de Espana complex is a huge half-circle with buildings continually running around the edge accessible over the moat by numerous beautiful bridges. In the centre is a large fountain. By the walls of the Plaza are many tiled alcoves, each representing a different province of Spain.
Today the Plaza de Espana mainly consists of Government buildings. The Seville Town Hall, with sensitive adaptive redesign, is located within it. The Plaza's tiled 'Alcoves of the Provinces' are backdrops for visitors portrait photographs, taken in their own home province's alcove. Towards the end of the park, the grandest mansions from the fair have been adapted as museums. The farthest contains the city's archaeology collections. The main exhibits are Roman mosaics and artefacts from nearby Italica.
The Plaza de Espa�a has been used as a filming location, including scenes for the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia. The building was used as a location in the Star Wars movie series Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999) and Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002) in which it featured in exterior shots of the City of Theed on the Planet Naboo.[5] It also featured in the 2012 film The Dictator.
It was built because of the Ibero-american Exhibition of 1929, held in Seville. Its creator was An�bal Gonz�lez. He mixed a style inspired by the Renaissance with typical elements from the city: exposed brick, ceramics and wrought iron (worked by Domingo Prida). Its floor plan is semicircular. It is dominated by 2 towers, one on each side of the enclosed area, which frame the central building where the main rooms are. Between the two towers runs a network of galleries with an arcade of semicircular arches leading to exits in different parts of the square, where a fountain stands.
The Seville City Hall is not located at the Plaza de Espana. The central government departments are.
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June 2nd, 2013
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Comments (2)
Inge Riis McDonald
Beautiful Jenny. Interesting story and also a wonderful series of images. I love how you treated them making them seem dated/historic!
Jenny Rainbow replied:
Inge, thank you so much! First when I came to this place it was dull weather and so flat light but afternoon the weather was changed and I came ti this square again - so I've got many different pictures of this wonderful place! :-)
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