Seville – Casco Antiguo – Feria
Barrio Feria is one of the oldest and, for me, most interesting neighbourhoods in Seville. You’ll find a map of the barrios here and a Google map of the city here. On the western side of the barrio is...
View ArticleSeville – Casco Antiguo – San Lorenzo
San Lorenzo is another barrio in the north of the Casco Antiguo. For my purposes I’ve defined it as the area between the river, to the west, and Alameda square, to the east. Map of barrios here and a...
View ArticleSeville – Casco Antiguo – San Vicente
San Vicente is the barrio by the river to the south of San Lorenzo in my previous post. It ends at Calle Carlos XII to the south. Map of barrios here and a Google map of the city here. La Azotea de...
View ArticleSeville – Casco Antiguo – El Centro – Architecture
El Centro is defined differently by different people but for my purposes it’s the area between Plaza de Encarnacion (location of Las Setas) and Plaza Nueva (location of the town hall), and the...
View ArticleSeville – Casco Antiguo – San Bartolomé
San Bartolomé is on the lower east side of the Casco Antiguo. It’s an interesting area to walk around but not as pretty as Santa Cruz, its neighbour to the west. Map of the barrios here and a Google...
View ArticleSeville – Casco Antiguo – Santa Cruz – around the cathedral
The Gothic Catedral de Santa María de la Sede is the largest cathedral in the world. Construction began in 1402 and continued for over 100 years. In 1987 it was registered as a World Heritage site by...
View ArticleSeville – Casco Antiguo – Santa Cruz – Plaza de España
The Plaza de España, a square located in the Parque de María Luisa in the southern end of Barrio Santa Cruz, was built in 1928 for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929. The building was used to...
View ArticleSeville – Casco Antiguo – Santa Cruz – La Judería
La Judería was once the Jewish Quarter. It’s located in the barrio of Santa Cruz, located to the east and south east of the Cathedral and the Alcazar (see separate post). Many people will access the...
View ArticleSeville – Casco Antiguo – Santa Cruz – around and about
Generally Barrio Santa Cruz is thought to correspond to La Juderia, the area east of the cathedral, but in fact its administrative area covers a much larger zone, so I’ve had to break it down into four...
View ArticleSeville – Triana – my favourite places to eat and drink
When I’m in Seville for work, my employer puts me up at the Hotel Ribera de Triana. Triana is a traditional neighbourhood on the other side of the river from the main city which sometimes necessitates...
View ArticleSeville – Casco Antiguo – favourite places to eat in Arenal
Arenal is the barrio just to the south-west of the centre of the Casco Antiguo. It’s the area west of the Cathedral, as far as the river, and between the Isabel I and San Telmo bridges and their...
View ArticleSeville – Casco Antiguo – Santa Cruz – favourite places to eat
Santa Cruz is the neighbourhood to the immediate east and south of the cathedral. It’s the oldest and most atmospheric barrio, containing the Alcazar and many other historical treasures. As a result...
View ArticleSeville – Santa Cruz – a visit to Hospital los Venerables
One morning I got up early to visit the Alkazar but the queues were still so long that I decided to do my plan B instead. The Hospital los Venerables was a residence built for poor, disabled or elderly...
View ArticleSeville – museums and architecture in Parque de María Luisa
Parque de María Luisa is Seville’s largest park, located to the south of the Casco Antiguo. Once the gardens of the Palace of San Telmo they were donated to the city in 1893 and redeveloped in 1914 in...
View ArticleSeville – Casco Antiguo – Las Setas in Plaza de Encarnacion
Regina is a central neighbourhood of the Casco Antiguo, north of Calle Imagen and its continuations. Map of the barrio here. My interective map of the city here. At its heart is Plaza de Encarnacion...
View ArticleSeville – Casco Antiguo – traditional tapas in Regina
As I said earlier, Regina is a central Casco Antiguo neighbourhood north of Calle Imagen and around Plaza de Encarnacion and Las Setas (see previous post). This post is about places to eat in the area....
View ArticleSeville – Casco Antiguo – staying in Alfalfa
Alfalfa is another central neighbourhood in the Casco Antiguo. It lies due south of Las Setas, and of Calle Imagen and its continuations, extending to the town hall area. It’s a good neighbourhood to...
View ArticleSeville – favourite places for food shopping
Shopping for quality ingredients is one of my great pleasures when I go away. I always make the most of my luggage allowance and sometimes exceed it (most airlines will let you get away with an extra...
View ArticleSeville – Casco Antiguo – Neo-Mudéjar architecture
I decided to give Neo-Mudéjar architecture its own post as I like it so much and there is plenty of it in Seville. Neo-Mudéjar is a revival of the Mudéjar (Moorish) architecture created by the Muslims...
View ArticleSeville – intro and index
Seville is the fourth-largest city in Spain with a municipal population of around 690,000, and a metropolitan population of about 1.5 million. Cultural highpoints came under the Romans and the Muslim...
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