
Taking a picture at the entrance to the Feria de Abril in Seville seems an inseparable act to the arrival at the Real year after year and its covers, emblem of the same, welcome these festivities since the second half of the nineteenth century .
These ephemeral structures, whose designs are usually decided during the autumn, emerge as reminders of the city and its history and some of them have been subject to controversy and debate.
It is known that there is nothing written about taste and therefore we compile the last 15 covers that have embellished the Seville Fair.
2010
The 2010 cover was configured based on three concepts. On the one hand, the centenary of the first flight of military aviation from Tablada. The city of Seville as the main element making use of NO&DO. Finally, the Fair, referenced with snails and polka dots.
2011
La vuelta a Sevilla en un mundo included on the cover elements allusive to the first circumnavigation of the earth, which in 2019 celebrated its fifth centenary. Allusions to the sea, the compass rose or the Victoria ship.
2012
Another of the covers of the April Fair in Seville that admits no doubt is that of 2012. It rightly reproduced the Church of El Salvador, which, moreover, celebrated its 300th anniversary.
2013
The 2013 one evoked the Plaza de España as they also did in 1969, 1971 and 1983.
2014
The 2014 fair’s cover design relied on the water kiosks that in the late 19th century were scattered throughout the city.
2015
The towers that flanked this cover represent those of the Telefónica building in Plaza Nueva and the portico, in general, recalls the Museum of Fine Arts.
2016
Seville, homage to dance was the maxim to which this cover of the fair was circumscribed, inspired by the Argentina Pavilion of the Expo of ’29, current Conservatory of Dance.
The 2016 cover also incorporated references to the anniversary of the Parish of Santa Ana and the fourth centenary of the death of Cervantes.
2017
That of 2017, Sevilla Cultura Universal, undoubtedly a commemoration to Expo ’92, also coincided with the ephemeris of its 25th anniversary. Specifically, it evokes the furnaces of the old Pickman factory, in the Cartuja.
Floral elements and the author’s signature in a smaller size refer to the 400th anniversary of Murillo’s birth.
2018
In this case, the access to the fair emulated the old stand of the Círculo Mercantil e Industrial of 1905, in homage to the fiftieth anniversary of the entity. It also includes references to the pavilion located in Plaza Nueva in 1862 and the Manuel Noguera building in Plaza de la Campana, the work of Aníbal de González.
2019
Sevilla, Escenario de Arte, Cultura e Historia was the slogan under which this cover was integrated, reminiscent of the architecture typical of the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929 and its leading architects, Aníbal González or Vicente Traver.
Both personalities were directors of the exhibition and authors of the Pavilion of Seville, the Casino of the Exposition or the Lope de Vega Theater, from which this cover especially drinks.
2022
One of the most peculiar covers of the Seville Fair was the one related to the year 2022. And the fact is that, in light of the pandemic years and the consecutive debates surrounding the celebration of the event in the year 2021, this cover was even mounted twice.
After being canceled for two consecutive years, in 2022 it was finally able to show off this design that recreates the iconic Hotel Alfonso XIII, with a regionalist style.
2023
The 2023 cover was inspired by the Plaza de España and the Teatro Coliseo, both of which are references of Sevillian regionalism.
2024
Similar in appearance to the 2023 cover, last 2024 the great portico that gives access to the Real was inspired by the Mudejar Pavilion that houses the Museum of Popular Arts and Customs.
2025
As for the last of the covers of the Seville Fair, the one for 2025 will reproduce the Chile Pavilion, which currently houses the Seville School of Art. A fusion of pre-Columbian and avant-garde art deco styles will embellish this construction that welcomes the fair.