Maria Luisa Park fountains
— shade, tile, and the sound of water.
Not only on a wall.
Maria Luisa Park fountains, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
“Forty hectares of Moorish-Andalusian garden along the river in Seville, donated by the Infanta María Luisa Fernanda in 1893 and shaped for the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition. Tile benches, fountains, pavilions left from the fair. Orange and palm trees, parrots in the canopy. People come for the shade, the water, and the Plaza de España next door.
The place, in three passes.
Parque de María Luisa runs along the Guadalquivir on the southern edge of Seville's historic centre. The grounds came from the Infanta María Luisa Fernanda de Borbón in 1893, then were redesigned between 1911 and 1914 by the French landscape architect Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier for the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition. Around 40 hectares of formal gardens, fountains, rose terraces, and pavilions remain from the fair. The Plaza de España, the Plaza de América with the Museum of Popular Arts, and the Mudéjar Pavilion all sit inside or beside the park.
Forestier shaped the park around water in the Hispano-Moorish tradition: the Fuente de los Leones modelled on the Alhambra, the Fuente de las Ranas with eight ceramic frogs around the basin, and the Glorieta de la Concha among many others. Tiled channels and shallow basins move water through the gardens. The fountains run through the long Andalusian summer, when Seville's afternoon temperatures regularly pass 38°C, and the sound of moving water is half the reason locals come.
The park is free and open daily, from around 8am to 10pm in summer and closing earlier in winter. Horse-drawn carriages line up at the Plaza de España gate; rowing boats work the canal there. The closest tram stop is Prado de San Sebastián. Most visitors enter from the Glorieta de San Diego near the Plaza de España and drift south through the rose gardens and the pavilions toward the Costurero de la Reina, the small Mudéjar building that now houses a visitor centre.
