Pabellón real - Seville

The Royal Pavilion is a building on the Plaza de América, south of the María Luisa Park in Seville. It was built in 1916 to be used as an exhibition center for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929.

The Royal Pavilion is a clear example of historicist architecture and, like the other two for this square, was built by the architect Aníbal González, commissioner of the exhibition. It was designed in memory of the Infanta Maria Luisa of Orléans for her donation to the city of most of the gardens in this park, which is named after her. It is built in a clear neo-Gothic style with many ornamental details based on elements of carved brick and glazed ceramics.

The appearance is clearly reminiscent of the architecture of the late Gothic and early Plateresques with its sober walls in which arches have been placed with beautiful crests, where the ornamentation has been reinforced.

Regarding the building as a whole, it is worth mentioning the meticulous carving of the bricks , the work of the best artists of the time such as José Roldán or Francisco Reyes, and the ceramic sections in which several of the most famous ceramic painters intervene , such as Gustavo Bacarisas, Manuel Rodríguez or Pérez de Tudela. The sculptor Antonio Bidón and the painter and decorator Manuel de la Cuesta, who designed the ceramic pieces for the admirable decoration of the facades, also took part in the event.

Willem Vandenameele