Ciudad Deportiva Luis del Sol Vallejo the Archbishop Emeritus of Seville. Ciudad Deportiva Luis del Sol The Ciudad Deportiva Luis del Sol, is the training ground of the Spanish football club Real Betis. The centre which is named after the former Real Betis player Luis del Sol, is commonly nicknamed as "La fábrica verdiblanca". Occupying an area of 45,000 m², the complex is located on Avenida de Italia of Los Bermejales district in Seville, adjacent to Estadio Benito Villamarín; the home of Real Betis Balompie. The training centre was officially opened on 19 December 1997 by then-president of the club Manuel Ruiz de Lopera, accompanied
Alfonso XIII of Spain sport of football led to the patronage of several "Royal" ("Real" in Spanish) football clubs, the first being Real Club Deportivo de La Coruña in 1907. Selected others include Real Madrid, Real Sociedad, Real Betis, Real Unión, Espanyol and Real Zaragoza. An avenue in the northern Madrid neighbourhood of Chamartín, Avenida de Alfonso XIII, is named after him. A plaza or town center in Iloilo City, Philippines (now Plaza Libertad) was named in his honour called Plaza Alfonso XIII. A street in Merthyr Tydfil, in Wales, was built especially to house Spanish immigrants in the mining industry and named Alphonso