In a Twitter post, Mayor José Luis Sanz announced plans to close and cordon off the Plaza de España by charging tourists to enter. At 50,000 square meters, Plaza de España is the symbol of Seville and ...

Tourists visiting the southern Spanish city of Seville may soon have to pay a fee to explore the wide, ornate Plaza de Espana square, the city hall said, as part of plans to control tourist ...

José Luis Sanz, the mayor of the popular tourist destination Seville in the Anadalusia autonomous community of Spain, stated on Wednesday that he has already “decided to enclose” the space of ...

Mayor of Seville, José Luis Sanz wrote on X/Twitter: “We are planning to close the Plaza de España and charge tourists to finance its conservation and guarantee its safety.

Ciudadana Sevilla, a platform that campaigns against the impact of tourism rentals in Seville, said the mayor’s plan will do little to move the dial on the property market problems people face.

For tourists, anyway. A post by José Luis Sanz, the mayor of Seville, on X said the money will be put towards the conservation and ensuring the safety of the Plaza, according to the Times.

“We are planning to close the Plaza de España and charge tourists to finance its conservation and ensure its safety,” Seville ’s mayor, José Luis Sanz, wrote on X earlier this week.