Magallanes Park in Seville – Space for Everyone
In May 2019, a new green area in Seville which has been called Parque de Magallanes or more specifically the Ferdinand Magellan River Park enjoying the atmosphere of the Guadalquivir River was opened. The project resolves after 25 years of abandonment a very prominent space of the city, which belonged to the former Universal Exhibition of 1992. Park is designed by the Sevillian architect Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra, one of the most prominent in the country for his architectural production and its quality.
The land of the intervention is located on the right bank of the Guadalquivir River, bounded by the Navigation Pavilion and the Chapina Bridge on its north and south sides and west by the new route of the Path of the Discoveries. The edge of the river delimits the perimeter to the east of the new gardens.
These lands, with an area of approximately 40,000 m², formed the sector called Puerta Triana, South access to the grounds of the Universal Exhibition of Seville in 1992. It was a heterogeneous conglomerate of diverse episodes that poorly coexisted in an impassable and inhospitable enclosure, abandoned to their fate after the end of the Universal Exposition.
Materials provided by Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra Arquitecto
Photo: © Fernando Alda Fotografia
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