María Luisa Park is Seville's first urban park and one of its green lungs. In 1983 it was declared an Asset of Cultural Interest in the category of Historic Garden. It was inaugurated on 18 April 1914 as an urban park, under the name of Infanta María Luisa Fernanda.

These spaces, which were originally part of the private gardens of the palace of San Telmo, were donated to the city in 1893 by the Infanta María Luisa Fernanda de Borbón, wife of the Duke of Montpensier. The squares of Spain and America, built for the Ibero-American Exhibition of 1929, are integrated into the park like a public garden and are one of its main attractions.

The park covers an area of 34 hectares and has a wide variety of vegetation, very leafy in many places and open in others, with some extensive grassy areas.

The park, as it can be seen today, is very similar to that of the 1929 Exposition. Forestier created a central axis in the park comprising the Gurugú mountain and the duck pond, which were the two most important elements already existing before his intervention. The fountain of the Lions and the Lotus pond were added to this axis, as well as the avenues of Pizarro and Hernán Cortes, which run parallel to this axis and another perpendicular to it, in order to facilitate the circulation of carriages. The existing trees and secondary paths were maintained. The park was thus configured with a structure made up of a combination of autonomous smaller gardens, organised around ponds, fountains, monuments and pavilions, which would allow later partial interventions without altering the whole. This led to the appearance of the gazebos, which became spaces that shared a public and intimate area of the park that reflected the courtyards of Andalusian houses, using their own decorative elements representative of regional and local history in their design.

It also contains a wide variety of avian species, including peacocks and songbirds, swans and ducks that sometimes wait to be fed by passers-by with bread or grain sold in places such as the Plaza de América.

In the northern part is the Plaza de España, which, since 1992, has housed the Military History Museum. While in the southern part is the Plaza de América with the Museum of Popular Arts and Customs, and the Archaeological Museum. A large number of pigeons gather in this square, and for this reason the park in general is also known by the nickname of "Parque de las Palomas" (Pigeon Park).