Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #8 in Seville, Spain
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13.4 km
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Experience Seville in Spain in a whole new way with our free self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.
Activities in SevilleIndividual Sights in SevilleSight 1: Agumore's Park
Agumore Park is a green area located in the San Pablo-Santa Justa district of the city of Seville. It was inaugurated in 1993.
Sight 2: Antonio Machín
Antonio Abad Lugo Machín was a Spanish-Cuban singer and musician. His version of El Manisero, recorded in New York, 1930, with Don Azpiazú's orchestra, was the first million record seller for a Cuban artist. Although this was labelled a rhumba, it was in reality a son pregón, namely, a song based on a street-seller's cry.
Sight 3: Iglesia de San Benito
The church of San Benito de la Calzada is located in Seville, Andalusia, Spain. It was the church of the monastery of San Benito, confiscated in 1835.
Sight 4: Iglesia de San Bernardo
The church of San Bernardo is a Catholic temple that is located in Seville, in the neighborhood of San Bernardo, in the Nervión district, outside the city walls. It was included in the General Catalogue of Andalusian Heritage in 1992.
Sight 5: Market
Sevilla-San Bernardo, popularly known as Cádiz station, was a railway station located in the Spanish municipality of Seville that was operational between 1902 and 1991. It took its name because it was located in the Seville neighborhood of San Bernardo, within the district of Nervión.
Sight 6: Plaza de los Curtidores
The Plaza de los Curtidores is a public space in the Spanish city of Seville.
Sight 7: Iglesia Santa María la Blanca
The Church of Santa María la Blanca is located in the San Bartolomé neighborhood of the district of Casco Antiguo in Seville. It was built in the 17th century. It is the headquarters of the Brotherhood of the Rosary of Our Lady of the Snows.
Sight 8: Casa Fabiola
Casa Fabiola is a historic building in the San Bartolomé neighborhood of the Casco Antiguo district of Seville, Andalusia, Spain. It was a private home and the hostelry of the convent of Madre de Dios. It is the birthplace of Cardinal Nicolás Wiseman, author of the novel Fabiola, which gives the building its name.
Sight 9: Iglesia de San Nicolás de Bari
The church of San Nicolás de Bari is a Catholic church located in the old town of Seville, province of the same name, autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. This temple is the headquarters of the Brotherhood of La Candelaria, which worships the Cristo de la Salud and the Virgen de la Candelaria. As residents of the parish of San Nicolás de Bari, the Marquises of Loreto paid for a large part of the reconstruction works of the parish that culminated in 1758. They were also patrons of its main chapel, in whose altarpiece the coat of arms of the lineage and the family pantheon still remain.
Sight 10: Iglesia de San Ildefonso
The church of San Ildefonso de Sevilla, located in the square of the same name, is a temple and a parish seat whose construction began in 1794 and was completed in 1841, according to a project by Julián Barnecilla, executed by the architect José Echamorro.
Sight 11: Convento Santa María de Jesús
The convent of Santa María de Jesús is a religious establishment, of the order of the Poor Clares, founded in 1502 and located on Calle Águilas in Seville. Its founder was Jorge Alberto of Portugal and his wife Felipa Melo. For its establishment they brought Marina de Villaseca, patron saint and founder of the Convent of Santa Isabel de los Ángeles de Córdoba.
Sight 12: Iglesia de Santiago
The Church of Santiago el Mayor is located in the Plaza Jesús de la Redención, in the Santa Catalina neighborhood of Seville, Andalusia, Spain.
Sight 13: Iglesia del Salvador
The Church of San Salvador is a church in Seville, Spain. It is the second-largest church in Seville, after the city's cathedral.
Sight 14: Iglesia de San Isidoro
The church of San Isidoro in the city of Seville is the seat of a Catholic parish. It was built in the fourteenth century and is in the Gothic-Mudejar style.
Sight 15: Museo del Baile Flamenco
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The Museum of Flamenco Dance of Seville is located in the heart of the city, in the Barrio de Santa Cruz; between the well-known Plaza de la Alfalfa and the Cathedral. Almost the entire Museum is dedicated to one of the artistic expressions that has had the most roots and importance in the culture of Andalusia, such as Flamenco dance. It is the first, and only museum in the world known to date, dedicated to this art. Visitors from all over the world come to learn about the origins and evolution of a centuries-old tradition and culture.
Sight 16: Casa de los Pinelo
The Casa de los Pinelo is a Renaissance-era building located in the centre of Seville in Spain. It houses both the Real Academia Sevillana de Buenas Letras and the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría. It is named after one of its former owners, Francisco Pinelo, a wealthy merchant.
Sight 17: Palacio Arzobispal
The Archbishop's Palace of Seville is a palace in Seville, Spain. It has served as the residence of bishops and archbishops of the episcopal sees and numerous nobleman and military figures to the present time. It is located in the southern section of Seville, in the Plaza Virgen de los Reyes, angled almost opposite the Giralda. It is situated on the northeastern side of Seville Cathedral in the neighborhood of Santa Cruz. Of Spanish Baroque architectural style, it has had the status of National Monument since 1969.
Sight 18: Giraldillo
The Giraldillo is the popular name given to the sculpture of a female form that crowns the Giralda in Seville. It received the names of Faith, Triumph of the Church, Colossus of Victorious Faith or Allegory of the Strength of Faith. It was made in 1568 by Bartolomé Morel.
Sight 19: Capilla Real
The Royal Chapel of the Cathedral of Seville, (Spain), is located at the head of the cathedral of Seville, and in it, among other members of royalty, the monarchs Ferdinand III of Castile, Alfonso X of Castile and Pedro I of Castile are buried.
Sight 20: Monumento a Juan Pablo II
The monument to John Paul II, is a bronze statue on pedestal located in the Plaza Virgen de los Reyes de Sevilla, Andalucía, Spain. The monument is a gesture from the city to John Paul II, who visited Seville in 1982, in the beatification of Ángela de la Cruz, and in 1993, when to close the XLV International Eucharistic Congress.
Wikipedia: Monumento a Juan Pablo II (Sevilla) (ES), Website
Sight 21: Foro de la Biodiversidad
The Biodiversity Forum is an environmental and scientific dissemination centre located in Seville, the result of a joint initiative of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Biodiversity Foundation. Through the use of new communication technologies, it is a sustainable option for the exhibition of content that encourages citizen debate on biodiversity, its value, the threats that loom over it and actions to stop its deterioration. Located in the Patio de Banderas of the Royal Alcazar of Seville, it offers exhibitions, film sessions, conferences and live connections with Doñana, among other activities. The centre, which opened in June 2009, has approximately 20,000 visits per year.
Sight 22: Parroquia de Santa Cruz
The church of Santa Cruz is a Catholic temple located on Mateos Gago Street in the Santa Cruz neighborhood of Seville. The construction of the temple was completed in the eighteenth century. Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries it was the temple of the convent of the Holy Spirit, of the minor clerics. It is currently the seat of the parish of that name. It has another access through the Plaza de la Escuela de Cristo.
Sight 23: Casa de Murillo
The Casa de Murillo is a historical house in Seville, Andalusia, Spain, at number 8, calle Santa Teresa, in the historic Barrio de Santa Cruz. It was the home of the painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617–1682) in the latter years of his life. The building has two storeys and a central patio (courtyard) with columns.
Sight 24: Cruz de la Cerrajería
The Plaza de Santa Cruz is located in the Santa Cruz neighborhood of Seville. Its location is the one previously occupied by the primitive church of Santa Cruz. In this square the streets Nicolás Antonio, Mezquita, Santa Teresa street and Alfaro square converge.
Sight 25: Muralla-Acueducto
The Caños de Carmona is a Roman aqueduct built during the first century BC to supply water from a spring in the ancient Roman city of Irippo –current Alcalá de Guadaíra– to the ancient Roman city of Hispalis –current Seville–, both in the ancient Roman province of Hispania Ulterior –current Spain–. It was later renovated and partially re-built in the twelfth century by the Almohads and it was fully operational until its demolition in 1912. Some sections survived the demolition and remain standing today.
Sight 26: Monument of Christoph Columbus
The Columbus monument is located on the Paseo de Catalina de Ribera, Seville, Andalusia, Spain.
Sight 27: Monumento a Catalina de Ribera
The monument to Catalina de Ribera is located on the promenade of the same name in the city of Seville, Andalusia, Spain. It is from 1921 and was designed by Juan Talavera y Heredia. It consists of two several frescoes, a tile with a portrait of Catherine and a bas-relief from the sixteenth century. At the base of the monument there is a fountain.
Sight 28: Alcázar of Seville
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The Alcázar of Seville, officially called Royal Alcázar of Seville, is a historic royal palace in Seville, Spain. It was formerly the site of the Islamic-era citadel of the city, begun in the 10th century and then developed into a larger palace complex by the Abbadid dynasty and the Almohads. After the Castilian conquest of the city in 1248, the site was progressively rebuilt and replaced by new palaces and gardens. Among the most important of these is a richly-decorated Mudéjar-style palace built by Pedro I during the 1360s.
Sight 29: Plaza del Triunfo
The Plaza del Triunfo in the Spanish city of Seville is located on the axis of a group of buildings declared World Heritage Sites in 1987: the General Archive of the Indies, the Royal Alcazar of Seville and the Cathedral of Seville.
Sight 30: Tumba de Cristóbal Colón
The Tomb of Christopher Columbus is located in the Seville Cathedral since 1899. Previously, it was located in Valladolid, the Monastery of the Cartuja de Sevilla, in Santo Domingo, and in Havana.
Sight 31: Postigo del Aceite
The Postigo del Aceite, known in Muslim times as bab al-Qatay, is, together with the Puerta de la Macarena and the Puerta de Córdoba, the only three accesses that are preserved today, although transformed, of those that had the walls of Seville, Andalusia, Spain.
Sight 32: Arco del Postigo
The Postigo del Aceite is with the Puerta de la Macarena and Puerta de Córdoba the only three access preserved in today of those who had the walls of Seville, Andalusia, Spain.
Sight 33: Reales Atarazanas
The Seville Shipyard is a medieval shipyard in the city of Seville that operated from the 13th to the 15th century. Composed of seventeen naves, the building was connected to the Guadalquivir River by a stretch of sand.
Sight 34: Teatro de la Maestranza
The Teatro de la Maestranza is an opera house located in Seville, Spain.
Sight 35: Torre del Oro
The Torre del Oro is a dodecagonal military watchtower in Seville, southern Spain. It was erected by the Almohad Caliphate in order to control access to Seville via the Guadalquivir river.
Sight 36: Palacio de San Telmo
The Palace of San Telmo is a historical edifice in Seville, southern Spain, formerly the Universidad de Mareantes, now is the seat of the presidency of the Andalusian Autonomous Government. Construction of the building began in 1682 outside the walls of the city, on property belonging to the Tribunal of the Holy Office, the institution responsible for the Spanish Inquisition. It was originally constructed as the seat of the University of Navigators, a school to educate orphaned children and train them as sailors.
Sight 37: Híspalis Fountain
The Fuente de Híspalis, also called the Fuente de Sevilla, is a fountain located in the Puerta de Jerez square in the city of Seville, Andalusia, Spain.
Sight 38: Capilla Santa María de Jesús
The Chapel of Antiguo Seminario Santa María de Jesús is a chapel located in Sevilla, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1901.
Wikipedia: Chapel of Antiguo Seminario Santa María de Jesús (EN)
Sight 39: Torre Abd el Aziz
The Tower of Abd al-Aziz is a hexagonal-shaped Almohad tower located in the Andalusian city of Seville, Spain. It was one of the vertices of the city wall, which linked with the walls of the palaces in that area, such as the nearby Real Alcázar. It has also been called the Tower of Homage, but not because it is the central tower of a great fortress, but because of a legend, not historical reality, which says that this was the first place where the Castilian banner flew after the conquest of the city in 1248.
Sight 40: General Archive of the Indies
The Archivo General de Indias, often simply called the Archive of the Indies, was created by Carlos III and inaugurated in 1785. It is housed in the former merchant guild building in Seville, Spain, built in the late 16th century. It became the repository of archival materials documenting the history of the Spanish Empire in the Americas and Asia. The building was designed by Juan de Herrera; it is an Italianate example of Spanish Renaissance architecture. This structure and its contents were registered in 1987 by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site, together with the adjoining Seville Cathedral and the Alcázar of Seville.
Sight 41: Capilla del Sagrario
The tabernacle of the Cathedral of Seville is a religious temple of baroque style and Catholic worship that is located on the Avenida de la Constitución in that city. It is integrated into the large block formed by the Cathedral, whose parish services it manages, the Patio de los Naranjos and other annexed buildings.
Sight 42: Capilla de Nuestra Señora de la Piedad
The Chapel of La Pietà is a Catholic building located at 13 Adriano Street in the Arenal neighborhood, in the town of Seville, Andalusia, Spain. It is the headquarters of the Brotherhood of Baratillo.
Sight 43: Monumento a la Tolerancia
The monument to tolerance is a monumental sculpture located in Seville (Spain) made by the sculptor and painter Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002), financed by the Friends of Sefarad Foundation, and which is installed on the salt spring, together to the Paseo de Colón, the Puente de Triana and the Guadalquivir River. The monument was inaugurated in 1992, coinciding with the celebration of the Universal Exhibition of Seville.
Sight 44: Castillo de San Jorge
The Castle of San Jorge was a medieval fortress built on the west bank of the Guadalquivir river in the Spanish city of Seville (Spain). It was also used as headquarters and prison for the Spanish Inquisition. It was demolished in the 19th century and made into a food market. A museum in the underground ruins focuses on the history of the castle, the Spanish Inquisition and of religious repression. Next to the food market in the Barrio de Triana, the Alley of the Inquisition, which was part of the fortifications, now connects Castilla Street with the Nuestra Señora de la O Walk.
Sight 45: Capilla del Cármen
The Chapel of Carmen is a small chapel located in the neighborhood of Triana, in Seville, Andalusia, Spain. It is located on the west side of the Triana Bridge. It was built designed by the architect Aníbal González and its construction was completed in 1928.
Sight 46: Esfera conmemorativa de la Primera Vuelta al Mundo
Seville 2019-2022 is an important programme of actions in various areas that aims to commemorate the V centenary of the First Circumnavigation of the Earth between September 2019 and September 2022 worldwide. A continuous program, with milestones of different scales, covering all the human sciences and seeking answers to common questions.
Sight 47: Museo de Carruajes
The Carriage Museum of Seville was located in the old convent of Los Remedios, in the neighborhood of the same name. It was opened in 1999 and closed in 2020.
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