Spain Plaza de Espana (Seville)
My brother felt so exciting as we had a trip to the famous Spain Plaza de Espana(Seville). It is because he was a huge fan of Star Wars Movie. Well, The building of this Plaza de Espana was used as a setting for Naboo in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. Now you get it?. Besides that, this travel place also being was used by Columbia Pictures as the "Cairo Great Britain Army Headquarters" for the movie Lawrence of Arabia (film)and Dan Brown's novel Digital Fortress, the story begins with the death of a major protagonist at the Plaza.
A short history that I heard from my tour guide is that it was built because of the Ibero-american Exhibition of 1929, held in Seville. Its creator was Anibal Gonzalez. 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.
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