Alamillo Park
park in Seville, Spain
Alamillo Park (Spanish: Parque del Alamillo) is a metropolitan park located between the town of Santiponce (Sevilla) and Seville, Spain. The park is one of Spain's largest urban parks at, 120 hectares. It is called the "green lung" of Sevilla.
History
In 1993 the park opened to public. At the nursery Expo of 1992, the park became a wildlife reserve spanning an area of about 10 hectares. Consequently, a botanical collection of more than 100 different species, and a greenhouse were added.
Previously known as Alamillo, Alamillo Park was the focus of regional government. They obtained the park in celebration of the Universal Exposition of Seville. The park covers 85 acres of the northernmost area of Cartuja Island, an area between the old and new channels of the Guadalquivir river.
After completion, Alamillo Park will feature Mediterranean trees such as elm, pine, poplar and the endemic cork oak.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Alamillo Park” is park in Seville, Spain. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Alamillo, Park and park, not as a finished interpretation.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3364180. The first chronological checks are 1993 and 1992.
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This entry incorporates text from “Alamillo Park” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.