
Metropol Parasol and Seville skyline Sunset, Spain

by Neale And Judith Clark
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Metropol Parasol and Seville skyline Sunset, Spain
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Neale And Judith Clark
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Photograph - Photography
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Seville Skyline at Sunset from the Seville Metropol Parasol or the Seville Mushrooms or Las Setas De Sevilla Plaza de la Encarnación, Seville, Andalusia, Spain, EU, Europe
Seville is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula.
Metropol Parasol is a wooden structure located at La Encarnación square, in the old quarter of Seville, Spain. It was designed by the German architect Jürgen Mayer and completed in April 2011. It has dimensions of 150 by 70 metres (490 by 230 ft) and an approximate height of 26 metres (85 ft) and claims to be the largest wooden structure in the world. The building is popularly known as Las Setas de la Encarnación
The Cathedral of Saint Mary of the See, Catedral de Santa María de la Sede, better known as Seville Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Seville, Andalusia, Spain. It was registered in 1987 by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, along with the adjoining Alcázar palace complex and the General Archive of the Indies. It is the fourth-largest church in the world as well as the largest Gothic church
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Metropol Parasol is a wooden structure located at La Encarnación square, in the old quarter of Seville, Spain. It was designed by the German architect Jürgen Mayer and completed in April 2011. It has dimensions of 150 by 70 metres (490 by 230 ft) and an approximate height of 26 metres (85 ft) and claims to be the largest wooden structure in the world.The structure consists of six parasols in the form of giant mushrooms ("Las setas" in Spanish), whose design is inspired by the vaults of the Cathedral of Seville and the ficus trees in the nearby Plaza de Cristo de Burgos.
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January 9th, 2020
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