Perdigones Tower
It is a tower that was part of the old factory of «San Francisco de Paula», popularly known as «Fábrica de Perdigones», located in Resolana Street, in the San Gil neighborhood of Seville next to the Barqueta Bridge, the main access to the Expo’92.
A lookout tower
As its name indicates, the factory was one of the many foundries that existed in the city and was fully dedicated to the manufacture of pellets (a task that was exercised in the tower), bullets and zinc plate, from which later came the zinc bathtubs (famous at the time), was owned by Manuel Mata and was created back in 1885. The manufacture of pellets was carried out in the following way: once the main material, lead, was melted in a furnace, with large ladles it was poured into sieves of different calibers (of pellets), the windows let the air in and the current did the rest, by the effect of gravity the pellets fell like rain. In dates close to the Expo’92 it was restored thanks to some famous warehouses that subsidized the work and in August 2005 it was restored again thanks to the City Council. It was inaugurated as «Camera Obscura» on March 28, 2007, being a new tourist attraction allowing to see the city from a height of 45 meters, almost half of the Giralda.
