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Walking tour details
To see current prices for each rate (adults, children and infants), select your preferred date in the booking calendar. The price shown in the calendar is always the final price.
The tour runs on a few days of the week only. Select your date in the booking calendar to see whether there is an English departure and at what time.
The group meets in Triana, at the Capilla del Carmen on the Plaza del Altozano, right at the far end of the Triana bridge.
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Please arrive a few minutes early, so that the whole group can set off together.
A guided walk of about two hours through Triana with an official guide.
Two hours on your feet, outdoors, on flat streets along the river. Comfortable shoes, and in summer a hat and water.
The walk is circular: it starts and ends at the same place, on the Triana side of the bridge.
Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before the activity.
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The other side of the river, which does not think of itself as the other side
Triana begins where Seville ends, across the Guadalquivir, and it has spent most of its history insisting it is a town in its own right. Its origins go back to the founding of the city by the Phoenician merchant Melkart, later renamed Hercules, and it became famous for two things above all: flamenco and pottery.
A quarter in two halves
The walk is circular, and it takes in both Trianas: to the south the old port, where the sailors lived, and to the north the industrial half, where the kilns were. Between them the Triana bridge, Calle Pureza and Calle San Jacinto, which is the spine of the place.
What you stop at
The Capilla del Carmen at the foot of the bridge, the covered market, the castle of San Jorge underneath it, the church of Santa Ana — the oldest parish in Seville — the house of the Esperanza de Triana, and the old Cava de los Gitanos, which is where flamenco is generally agreed to have started.
Calle Betis, and the things nobody points out
The route walks the length of Calle Betis, with the coloured house fronts on one side and the whole of Seville on the other, and stops at two places most visitors pass without noticing: the Patio de Monipodio, which Cervantes put in a story, and what is left of the old University of Mareantes, where pilots were trained for the Atlantic crossing.
Legends, mostly
This is a quarter that tells stories about itself, and the guide tells them: the anecdotes, the traditions, the Holy Week rivalry that everyone here takes entirely seriously, and the events the neighbourhood has decided to remember its own way.
Your questions answered
Frequently asked questions
About two hours, walking, outdoors.
At the Capilla del Carmen on the Plaza del Altozano, at the Triana end of the Triana bridge. It is about fifteen minutes on foot from the Cathedral.
No. This is a walking tour of the quarter, and the visits are from outside. What you are paying for is the guide and the route, not the tickets.
Yes. The same walk with a ticket to a flamenco show at the end runs on the same days, from the same place.
The tour booked on this page is given in English.
The same walk also runs in Spanish, on its own dates, so the calendar above shows only the English departures.
Yes, with the usual caveat: it is two hours of walking and listening. There is a reduced rate for children and infants go free.
Yes. Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before the activity.
Planning your walk through Triana
Practical questions about the quarter itself, useful background before you travel.
Flamenco and ceramics, in that order, and for a sense of itself that has outlasted the guilds that produced it. It was the sailors’ quarter, then the potters’ quarter, and it is still the part of Seville most likely to tell you it is not really Seville.
The stretch of Triana where the gitano families lived until they were moved out in the middle of the 20th century, and where flamenco as we know it took shape. The buildings have gone; the claim has not, and no serious account of flamenco leaves Triana out.
It is the best view in Seville and it costs nothing: the coloured house fronts at your back, the river in front, the Torre del Oro and the cathedral on the far bank. Go at dusk if you can.
In part. The kilns that supplied the tilework of the Alcázar and half the churches of the city were here, and a handful of workshops and tile shops still trade on Calle San Jorge and Calle Alfarería, which means potters’ street.
On foot, across the Triana bridge, about fifteen minutes from the Cathedral. The bridge itself is the oldest iron bridge in Spain still standing.
