On June 25, 1909, the engineer and Artillery Commander Luis Rodríguez Caso, also manager of the glass factory La Trinidad, proposed to hold an Ultramarine Exhibition in Seville, known later as the Ibero-American Exhibition. The announcement was made during an event at the Capitanía in tribute to his person as organizer of the Spain party in Seville (1908), in which he was presented a saber of honor "as testimony of gratitude of the people of Seville."

 

Rodríguez Caso joined the first commissions of the exhibition (the Initiating Commission and the Manager). In 1913, he promoted moving the Exhibition to Los Remedios, in Los Gordales, creating the Park of the Race. Between 1914 and 1921, he was General Commissioner of the contest. Rodríguez Caso died in 1927, and in the preambles of the Exhibition, the avenue leading to the Plaza de España in the Maria Luisa Park was named after him.

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