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Carriage ride details
The price is for the carriage, not per person: up to four people ride for the same fare. Select your date in the booking calendar to see the current rate.
Carriages run throughout the week. Select your date in the booking calendar to see the times available that day.
The carriage waits in the old town, beside the Cathedral.
C. Alemanes 31, Casco Antiguo, 41004 Seville · View on Google Maps
Please arrive a few minutes early.
A 45-minute ride in a horse-drawn carriage through the centre of Seville, past the main monuments and squares.
Four people fit in a carriage, and the fare is the same whether you are two or four, so it works out cheapest for a family or a group of friends.
It is an open carriage. In summer go early or late; in winter bring a jacket.
Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before the activity.
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Forty-five minutes at the pace the city was built for
The calesa has been in Seville since the 16th century, and it is one of the few places in Europe where it survived the arrival of the car. It is not a museum piece: the carriages work the ranks by the Cathedral every day, and at the April fair they are the way people get about.
Where it goes
A loop of the centre and the areas around it: the Cathedral and the Giralda, the Plaza del Triunfo and the Plaza Virgen de los Reyes, the Royal Alcázar, the old Tobacco Factory, the Hotel Alfonso XIII, the Torre del Oro, and then into the María Luisa park and round the Plaza de España.
Why it is worth doing
Because the pace is right. At walking speed you see the upper floors, the balconies and the corners that you miss when you are watching your feet on the cobbles, and the sound of the hooves does something to the experience that a bus cannot.
Who it suits
Anyone who has been on their feet all day, anyone travelling with small children or with someone who cannot walk far, and anyone who wants the whole shape of the centre in three quarters of an hour.
Your questions answered
Frequently asked questions
About 45 minutes.
Up to four, and the price is for the carriage rather than per person, so the fare is the same for two as for four.
At C. Alemanes 31, beside the Cathedral in the old town.
No. This is a ride rather than a guided tour: the driver knows the city and will point things out, but there is no commentary and no fixed language.
Very. It is usually the part of Seville small children remember, and children ride within the same carriage fare.
Yes. Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before the activity.
Planning your carriage ride
Practical questions about the carriages of Seville, useful background before you travel.
Carriage horses in Seville are licensed and inspected by the city, which sets rules on working hours, rest and the temperature above which they stop working. In the hottest weeks of summer the ranks shut in the middle of the day for that reason.
Early morning or the last hour before sunset, for the light and the temperature. The middle of a summer day is the worst time for you and for the horse.
At fixed ranks: beside the Cathedral on the Plaza del Triunfo and Avenida de la Constitución, at the Plaza de España, and at the entrance to the María Luisa park. Booking ahead saves you negotiating at the rank.
A week of casetas, horses and carriages on a fairground across the river, two weeks after Easter. It is when the carriages of Seville stop being a tourist attraction and become the point.
