The Palace of San Telmo is a historic edifice in Seville, southern Spain, formerly the Universidad de Mareantes, now the seat of the presidency of the Andalusian Autonomous Government. Construction of
General view of the Palace of San Telmo.
Palace of San Telmo. Main façade (b. 1754).
Gallery of illustrious Sevillians, on the façade facing Calle Palos de la Frontera.
Main façade entrance seen bottom-up.
Infanta María Luisa Fernanda of Spain, Duchess of Montpensier was the younger daughter of King Ferdinand VII and Queen Maria Christina of Spain.
Palacio de San Telmo
…dukedom were not well received in the Spanish Court because Duke claimed for his wife part of the inheritance of Ferdinand VII. Upon the death in 1897 of Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier, the palace was willed to the Archdiocese of Seville; its gardens, which now constitute the Parque de María Luisa, a park site of the Ibero-American…
Infanta doña Luisa Fernanda de Borbón
Luisa Fernanda as a young girl (by Vicente López Portaña, 1842, Alcázar of Seville collection)
Luisa Fernanda in 1847 (portrait by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, Palace of Versailles)
Luisa Fernada with her husband and children (photograph by Jean Laurent, circa 1860, Museum of Romanticism)