San Telmo Palace
Current headquarters of the Presidency of the Regional Government of Andalusia.
From 1847 it ceased to function as such, and was destined for different uses, being the headquarters of the Railway Society or the Literary University, being underutilized and with its works paralyzed.
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In 1849 it was acquired by Antonio de Orleans and Luisa Fernanda de Borbón, dukes of Montpensier, who made it their official residence. The main hall of the palace was the scene on December 12, 1877 of the proposal of marriage of his daughter Maria de las Mercedes de Orleans by the Duke of Sesto, José Isidro Osorio y Silva-Bazán, and Senator Francisco Marín de San Martín, Marquis de la Frontera, on behalf of Alfonso XII of Spain, by means of a handwritten letter from the king. Upon the death in 1897 the Infanta Maria Luisa Fernanda, widowed Duchess of Montpensier, bequeathed the palace to the Archdiocese of Seville and ceded its gardens, which today form the Maria Luisa Park, to the city of Seville.
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In 1901, being archbishop of the city Marcelo Spinola, the palace became a seminary, until 1989 when it was ceded by the archbishopric of Seville to the Junta de Andalucía, to house the seat of the regional government. In 1991 it began its rehabilitation to become the official headquarters of the presidency of the Junta de Andalucía, starting in 2005 a second phase of restoration focused mainly on rescuing the original structure and details of the interior of the building, which had been subjected to multiple interventions that had distorted them. The project was in charge of the Sevillian architect Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra.
