Seville in 2 days, on foot

This 2-day self-guided walking plan for Seville covers 28 narrated sights in an easy day-by-day order. Each day is split into a morning and an afternoon loop, and every stop has a two to three minute audio story in the Gingerguide app.

You set the pace: this is a suggested order, not a schedule. Walk it in 2 days, or stretch it out. Reorder freely; Seville rewards a detour.

Day 1

Morning

1. Real Alcázar of Seville: A UNESCO World Heritage royal palace of extraordinary Mudéjar splendour, where Moorish artisans built paradise gardens and gilded halls for Christian kings across seven centuries of reinvention.
2. Seville Cathedral: The largest Gothic cathedral in the world and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, housing the tomb of Christopher Columbus and the magnificent Giralda bell tower.
3. La Giralda: A 12th-century Almohad minaret converted into a cathedral bell tower, offering panoramic views of Seville from the top, reached by 35 gently sloping ramps rather than stairs, so horses could ascend.
4. Plaza de España: A magnificent semicircular Renaissance Revival palace complex built for the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition, featuring tiled alcoves for every Spanish province and rowboats on a curved canal.
5. Barrio Santa Cruz: The former Jewish quarter of Seville, a labyrinth of whitewashed lanes, orange trees, flower-filled courtyards, and tapas bars that forms the atmospheric heart of the old city.
6. Triana: The vibrant neighbourhood across the Guadalquivir, birthplace of Sevillian flamenco, home of the city's finest ceramic tile tradition, and site of the former Spanish Inquisition headquarters.
7. Museo del Baile Flamenco: The world's only museum dedicated entirely to the art of flamenco dance, founded by the legendary dancer Cristina Hoyos in a beautiful 18th-century palace in the heart of Seville.

Afternoon

1. Torre del Oro: A 13th-century Almohad watchtower on the Guadalquivir known as the Tower of Gold, now housing a Naval Museum with views over the river that once guarded all trade entering Seville.
2. Plaza de Toros de la Maestranza: The oldest and most prestigious bullring in Spain, built in 1765, with a magnificent Baroque exterior and a celebrated museum, and the setting that inspired Bizet's opera Carmen.
3. Casa de Pilatos: A magnificent 16th-century Sevillian palace considered the finest example of Mudéjar-Renaissance fusion in the city, combining Moorish azulejos and arches with Italian Renaissance courtyard design.
4. Metropol Parasol (Las Setas): The world's largest wooden structure, a spectacular wavy mushroom-like canopy completed in 2011 hovering over Roman ruins, with a rooftop walkway offering stunning panoramic views of Seville.
5. Hospital de los Venerables: A magnificent 17th-century Baroque building in the heart of Santa Cruz, once a retirement home for elderly priests, now housing superb Velázquez paintings and an extraordinary gilded church.
6. Iglesia del Salvador: The second largest church in Seville, a monumental 17th-century Baroque masterpiece built on the site of the city's main mosque, with a magnificent gilded altarpiece and an outdoor life beloved by young Sevillanos.
7. Palacio de las Dueñas: The private palace of the House of Alba, one of Spain's most powerful aristocratic families, where the poet Antonio Machado was born and a magnificent Mudéjar courtyard survives nearly intact.

Day 2

Morning

1. Parque de María Luisa: Seville's most beloved public park, 60 hectares of gardens, fountains, and pavilions from the 1929 Exposition, home to peacocks, the glorious Glorieta de Bécquer, and the city's finest afternoon strolling.
2. Archaeological Museum of Seville: Housed in the ornate 1929 Exposition pavilion in Parque de María Luisa, this museum displays the finest collection of Roman antiquities in Andalusia, including stunning mosaics and bronzes from nearby Italica.
3. Italica Roman City: A remarkably preserved Roman city founded in 206 BC just 9km from Seville, birthplace of Emperors Trajan and Hadrian, with a vast amphitheatre once the third largest in the Roman world.
4. Archivo General de Indias: A UNESCO World Heritage 16th-century building containing all the documents of Spanish colonisation of the Americas, including Christopher Columbus's own letters and Magellan's navigational charts.
5. Semana Santa (Holy Week): The world's most spectacular Holy Week procession, where 60 brotherhoods carry magnificent floats bearing religious sculptures through Seville's streets over 12 days, drawing one million visitors each year.
6. Feria de Abril: Spain's greatest fiesta, a week-long festival of flamenco dresses, sherry, Sevillana dancing, and private tent parties held two weeks after Easter in the illuminated Real de la Feria fairground.
7. Basílica de la Macarena: Home of the Virgen de la Macarena, the most revered religious image in Seville, with golden tear-streaks and an emerald-encrusted robe, patron of bullfighters and the heart of Holy Week emotion.

Afternoon

1. Museo de Bellas Artes: The second finest art museum in Spain after the Prado, housed in a magnificent former 17th-century convent, with an unparalleled collection of Sevillian Baroque masters including Murillo and Zurbarán.
2. Palacio de San Telmo: A magnificent 1682 Baroque palace with an extraordinary Churrigueresque portal, once a naval school, then a ducal residence, now the seat of the Junta de Andalucía regional government.
3. Calle Sierpes: Seville's famous pedestrian shopping street, a lively curve of traditional pastry shops, hat makers, fashion stores, and cafés that has been the social hub of city life for over five centuries.
4. Guadalquivir Riverfront: The ancient river that made Seville the gateway to the Americas, stroll the promenade between the Torre del Oro and the San Telmo Bridge for the finest views of the city and the spirit of its maritime glory.
5. Casa de la Memoria: The most intimate flamenco venue in Seville, nightly shows in a restored 15th-century palace courtyard in the heart of Santa Cruz, limited to 100 spectators for an unforgettable close-up experience.
6. El Rinconcillo: Founded in 1670, Spain's oldest tavern, a beautifully preserved tile-covered bar where the old Seville tradition of free tapas with every drink survives alongside the city's finest spinach with chickpeas and salmorejo.
7. Real Alcázar Gardens: A sequence of enclosed Moorish garden rooms behind the palace walls, the Mercury Pool, English Garden, and Grotto Gallery, fragrant with orange trees and jasmine, one of the finest historic garden experiences in Spain.

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