The Alameda de Hércules, with its 480 meters long and almost 100 meters wide, is the oldest public garden in Europe.
In 1574, the Count of Barajas drained with ditches the lands where the park was to be built, which were often flooded with the waters accumulated there of the assiduous overflowing of the Guadalquivir River. He decorated it with statues and fountains and populated it with rows of trees.
It currently occupies the same location and is leisure area nightlife and diurnal best-known and lively of Seville. A large pedestrian space full of bars, pubs, nightclubs and restaurants with different personalities, very frequented by Sevillians and travelers from any corner of the world.
The Alameda is a fantastic mixture of historical elements, such as its splendid Roman columns, creative spaces and a large number of multicultural proposals, and above all a space full of life, a lot of life.