The modern viewpoint of Seville
Commonly known among Seville, such as mushrooms, this set of 6 platforms make what is more well known among engineers and architects, as the Metropol Parasol.
Among its facilities have a large shopping center, a spectacular viewpoint and also contains within it, as custodian for some surprises of ancient Roman, Arab houses very well preserved.
The star piece, without diminishing the importance the set in general, is its wonderful viewpoint which offers a different view of Seville 360º.
From it, we can see the domes of the various temples and churches that adorn the architectural emblematic of Seville, as well as its many monuments, gives us the opportunity to observe Seville from another perspective, from peak hours and bustle of the streets to the quiet and calm of the night in a illuminated Seville.
The work is the architect from Berlin Jünger Mayer, who was inspired by the domes of the Cathedral of Seville and the ficus Christ's Square in the Spanish city of Burgos.
Seville prostrates himself at your feet from a height of 26 meters, which gives us the combination of a view of the old town observed from a colossal modernist building.
It was inaugurated in March 2011, under the jealous glances of those who saw with controversial and not consistent with the architecture of the Seville of all, despite much negativity, the work was chosen among the top 5 candidates to win the prize for architecture contemporary Mies van der Rohe, participating with it other 335 candidates for the same award projects.
Inside we find the conservation of a group of Roman patrician houses dating from the I and VI centuries after Christ, and the Almohad Islamic house of the XII and XIII. They were discovered when excavations being carried out for the project Metropol Parasol, better known as Mushrooms. The space is known as Antiquarium.
To observe Seville from this incredible viewpoint, the options are many, and it is open from 10:30 am to midnight on Thursdays and Sundays, and from 10:30 hours to 01:00 on Friday and Saturday. The price of admission is very symbolic, only 1.35 euros per person, being free to residents of Seville.
The location is more than obvious exactly Reincarnation Square, there we found this magnificent work of modernist and contemporary architecture, and for its size, obviously can not go unnoticed in the eyes both of whom observed as visits of this our beautiful city, your city.
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