Costurero de la Reina

Coordinates: 37°22′34″N 5°59′29″W / 37.37604°N 5.991518°W / 37.37604; -5.991518

The Queen's sewing box

The Costurero de la Reina (literally, the Queen's sewing box) is a building constructed in the late nineteenth century in the gardens of the Palace of San Telmo, now the Maria Luisa Park in Seville, Spain. This unique building takes the form of a small hexagonal castle with turrets at the corners.[1]

The building was the guard house or garden retreat. It is the oldest building in Seville in the neomudéjar style. The architect was Juan Talavera de la Vega, father of the regional architect Juan Talavera y Heredia. The name comes from a popular tradition that Dona Mercedes of Orléans, the future wife of King Alfonso XII of Spain, retired to the pavilion where she passed her time sewing.[2] The reality is more prosaic. The formal name is the "Pavilion of San Telmo". Dona Mercedes died of typhus about fifteen years before the building was erected in 1893.[3]

Nowadays the Costurero de la Reina lodges the tourist information office on the ground floor. The opening times are 9-2 pm and 3.30 to 7.30 pm, on weekdays and 10-2pm during weekends and bank holidays. The building was restored in the spring of 2007 to repair the main structure and to arrange the interior in order to make it more functional. The first floor was refurbished recently and it is used as meetings and events room of the local government. 

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References

  1. ↑ "Costurero de la Reina". Barriosantacruz. Retrieved 2011-11-09.
  2. ↑ "Costurero de la Reina de Sevilla, España". Fotografías de Sevilla, España. Retrieved 2011-11-09.
  3. ↑ "BIENVENIDO AL COSTURERO DE LA REINA!" (in Spanish). 10 Jun 2010. Retrieved 2011-11-09.
  4. ↑ "ACERCA DEL COSTURERO" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2011-11-09.
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