Ito the prestigious Americanist historian Enriqueta Vila Vilar He already has a park dedicated to his figure in the capital of Seville, next to the Santa Joaquina de Vedruna school, in the Nervión district. One more recognition of what the first female numeraire of the Royal … Sevillian Academy of Good Lettersof which he served as president between 2011 and 2014, and to which the Junta de Andalucía awarded the gold medal.
Seville Mayor José Luis Sanz and the city itself doctor in American history Enriqueta Vila Vilar, 90 years oldparticipated this Saturday morning in the act of labeling the said park, the first mayor emphasizing that Enriqueta Vila is “one of the most outstanding intellectual figures of the city and an international reference in the history of America”. “Seville unites its long history with its rich Americanist past and pays homage to one of the characters who best explained the history of Seville and America,” he underlined.
Born in the central street of Zaragoza in 1935, Enriqueta Vila spent her childhood around the Prado de San Sebastián and, since 1963, she has lived in Nervión, a neighborhood next to which this park that today bears her name is located. In addition to his long and renowned academic career, was municipal councilor of Seville between 1987 and 1995 and delegate for Culture between 1991 and 1995.
According to the mayor, she is a woman “deeply Sevillian, who devoted her entire life to her great passions: Seville, history, America and his family.”
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