The blimp Graf Zeppelin tethered in the farmstead of Hernán Cebolla

Blimp Graf Zeppelin (model D–LZ127) tethered in the farmstead of Hernán Cebolla (of Seville), where a blimp landed for the first time in the city’s history on April 16, 1930. It had visited Seville before on April 24, 1929, though it floated over the city at a low altitude without managing to land. This was a promotional journey in the run-up to the inauguration of the Ibero-American Exhibition on May 9th.

The blimp's second visit was on April 16, 1930 from the German city of Friedrichshafen, the headquarters of the Zeppelin company. On this occasion, the aircraft landed at Hernán Cebolla’s farmstead, as well as the Carmona road, provided by the Sánchez-Mejías family as a blimp terminal. The anchoring of the blimp was a great event for the city; the monarchs (Don Alfonso XIII and Doña Victoria Eugenia) were in attendance for the occasion and there was a large public turnout.

In the years that followed, the Zeppelins made regular visits to the city, drawn by the establishment of a regular transoceanic flight path between Europe and America. The landing of the aircraft on July 11, 1933 was particularly significant, as it had come from Pernambuco (Brazil), and the airport of San Pablo de Sevilla was officially inaugurated. The blimp flew over the city for the last time on July 11, 1936 and, coincidentally, just as had happened on its first visit, it did not manage to land.