Setas de Sevilla (Metropol Parasol)

Chapter 9/12 · Sevilla

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These enormous wooden mushrooms are the Metropol Parasol, popularly known as the Setas de Sevilla, the Mushrooms of Seville. They were designed by the German architect Jürgen Mayer and opened on 27 March 2011.

They are about 150 metres long, 70 wide and 26 high, and are made of laminated wood. On the ground floor there is a market, and in the basement is the Antiquarium, a museum with the Roman and Andalusi remains found during the excavation. Those finds delayed the works, and the final cost reached about 100 million euros.

At the top there is a viewpoint from which you can see the whole historic centre. Now we walk south to Plaza del Salvador.

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