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Three days in Seville fill up faster than people expect. The old town takes a morning to walk and a week to exhaust, the Alcázar and the Cathedral are better booked ahead, and Córdoba, Granada and the white villages are all close enough to do in a day and be back for dinner. Everything we sell is on this page. Narrow it down by how much time you have free, or by what you feel like doing.
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Approx. 1 hour 30 minutes
The royal palace at the heart of Seville, still in use after a thousand years: Mudejar courtyards, tiled halls and gardens of orange trees and fountains, with an English-speaking guide and a skip-the-line ticket included.
€39per adultSee details
Approx. 1 hour 30 minutes
One of the largest churches ever built, raised on the site of the old mosque: the tomb of Christopher Columbus, the greatest altarpiece in the Christian world, and the Giralda to climb for the view. Guide and tickets included.
€35per adultSee details
Approx. 3 hours 30 minutes
The three monuments the city is known for in one morning: the largest Gothic cathedral in the world, the Giralda you walk up by ramp, and the royal palace and gardens across the square. Skip-the-line entry to all three and an English-speaking guide.
€65per adultSee details
Approx. 1 hour 30 minutes
The second public art collection in Spain after the Prado, in the old convent of La Merced: Murillo, Zurbaran and Valdes Leal, and a gallery that used to be a church. Ticket and guide included.
€18per adultSee details
Approx. 1 hour
A 15th-century palace where Italian Renaissance meets Andalusian Mudejar: a tiled courtyard under carved plasterwork, a private chapel, Roman marbles and two walled gardens. An hour, with the ticket and a guide included.
€25per adultSee details
Approx. 3 hours 30 minutes
Three and a half hours north of the Cathedral, through the quarter the tour buses never reach: Las Setas, the Feria street market, the Macarena wall and its basilica, and inside the Palacio de las Dueñas at the end. Both entrances included.
€40per adultSee details
Approx. 1 hour 30 minutes
An hour and a half north of Las Setas, through the Macarena: the Feria street market, the only surviving city gate with its stretch of medieval wall, the basilica, and the churches along Calle San Luis.
€20per adultSee details
Approx. 2 hours
Two hours across the river in the quarter that gave Seville its flamenco and its tiles: Calle Betis, the market and the castle beneath it, Santa Ana, and the streets where the art of flamenco took shape.
€15per adultSee details
Approx. 2 hours
The same two-hour walk through Triana, and at the end a flamenco show in the quarter where the art was born. Guide and show ticket included.
€40per adultSee details
Approx. 2 hours
Two hours through the old town at nightfall, on the legends, the tragedies and the unexplained things Seville has accumulated over two thousand years. No actors, no jump scares: a guide who knows the material.
€15per adultSee details
Approx. 3 hours
Four tapas and three drinks in four traditional bars of Triana, from Calle Betis to the Plaza de Santa Ana, with a guide whose subject is the food. Three hours, eaten standing up, the way the city does it.
€69per adultSee details
Approx. 2 hours
Five wines from the province of Seville, each with the tapa chosen to go with it: fortified from the river, white from the Aljarafe, red from the Sierra Norte, sweet from the Sierra Sur and a liqueur to finish.
€75per adultSee details
Approx. 4 hours
Four tapas and three drinks in four traditional bars of Triana, and then a flamenco show at a tablao in the quarter where the art was born. Four hours, one guide.
€79per adultSee details
Approx. 1 hour
An hour of flamenco at a tablao in the middle of Triana, in a room small enough to hear the breath at the end of a phrase. Every day, several times a day.
€25per adultSee details
Approx. 2 hours 30 minutes
A large company on the biggest flamenco stage in the city, with a tapas dinner served during the show and the flamenco costume museum included half an hour beforehand.
€86per adultSee details
Approx. 1 hour
An hour of live flamenco five minutes from the Cathedral, with singers, guitarists and dancers of the current generation. Every day, with premium tickets that add drinks or tapas.
€29per adultSee details
Approx. 45 minutes
Forty-five minutes through the centre in a horse-drawn carriage: the Cathedral and the Alcazar, the Torre del Oro, the Maria Luisa park and the Plaza de Espana. One fare for up to four people.
€85per carriage, up to 4 peopleSee details
Approx. 2 hours 30 minutes
Two and a half hours across both banks of the river with a local guide, on a city that is flat and has 160 km of segregated cycle lanes. The bike stays with you for the rest of the day.
€35per adultSee details
Approx. 2 hours
Two hours at water level on the only navigable river in Spain: the Triana bridge from underneath, the Torre del Oro from below and Calle Betis rising out of the water. No experience needed.
€39per adultSee details
Approx. 1 hour
One hour on the Guadalquivir, the only navigable river in Spain and the reason Seville became a port: the Torre del Oro, Triana and Calle Betis, the Cartuja and the bridges, with commentary on board.
€20per adultSee details
Approx. 1 hour in the air
An hour in the air over the countryside west of Seville, at first light, when the air is still enough to fly. Breakfast and a toast with cava after landing.
€190per adultSee details
Approx. 1 hour 30 minutes
An hour and a half standing up on the Guadalquivir, with the Triana bridge and the Torre del Oro going past at walking pace. Equipment, instructor and photos included.
€35per adultSee details
Valid 24 or 48 hours
Fourteen stops, a 75-minute circuit and commentary in sixteen languages, with unlimited hop-on hop-off travel for 24 or 48 hours. The ticket is valid any day within a year.
€28per adult, 24 hoursSee details
Approx. 10 hours
Three of Andalusia's most beautiful white villages in one day: Zahara de la Sierra above its turquoise reservoir, Grazalema in the heart of its natural park, and Ronda on the edge of its gorge. Along the way, an olive oil tasting at a traditional mill.
€79per adultSee details
Approx. 10 hours
Andalusia’s greatest monument in a single day: the Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba, with admission included, plus the Jewish Quarter, the Roman Bridge and the city’s flower-filled patios. A stop in the white town of Carmona on the way.
€99per adultSee details
Approx. 15 hours
Cross the Strait of Gibraltar by ferry and spend the day in Morocco: the Caves of Hercules, camels on the Atlantic shore, the old streets of Tangier and a traditional Moroccan lunch included. A valid passport is required.
€219per adultSee details
Approx. 10 hours
Two of the most distinctive cities in Andalusia in a single day: Jerez de la Frontera, which gave sherry its name, and Cadiz, founded by the Phoenicians and almost entirely surrounded by the Atlantic. With a guided walk and a stop by the sea.
€95per adultSee details
Approx. 10 hours
Sherry is made in one small corner of the world and nowhere else. This day trip goes inside one of the cellars of Jerez de la Frontera for a tasting, then carries on to Cadiz, the oldest city in Western Europe, with a guided walk and a stop by the Atlantic.
€105per adultSee details
Approx. 10 hours
The fullest version of our day in the province of Cadiz: a sherry cellar with a tasting, the equestrian ballet at the Royal Andalusian School of Equestrian Art in Jerez, and a guided walk through Cadiz on the Atlantic.
€119per adultSee details
Approx. 12 hours
The southern tip of Europe in a single day: the walled town of Tarifa with its castle, the Roman city of Baelo Claudia standing on the sand, free time on Bolonia beach, the white village of Vejer de la Frontera, and Cadiz to finish.
€99per adultSee details
Approx. 14 hours
Seville has no sea. This day trip gives you one: transport down to Tarifa on the Atlantic in the morning, the whole day free for the beach or the walled old town, and the drive back at night. Africa is visible across the water.
€50per adultSee details
Approx. 13 hours
A guided walk through the Albaicin, the old Moorish quarter of Granada and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with the Alhambra facing you across the valley, and free time in the city afterwards. Admission to the Alhambra is not included.
€89per adultSee details
Approx. 13 hours
Admission to the Alhambra with the Nasrid Palaces included, and a guided visit of three to four hours inside: the Alcazaba, the palaces and the Generalife gardens. Weather permitting, the Albaicin and the San Nicolas viewpoint afterwards.
€169per adultSee details
Approx. 10 hours
The white villages of the old frontier, a working olive oil mill with a tasting, and Ronda with the Tourist Pass included, so the Puente Nuevo, the Arab Baths and three more monuments are visited from the inside.
€99per adultSee details
Approx. 10 hours
A guided walk through the old town of Cordoba: the Roman Bridge, the medieval Jewish Quarter and the flower-filled courtyards, with a coffee stop in the white town of Carmona on the way. Admission to the Mosque-Cathedral is not included.
€79per adultSee details
Approx. 10 hours
A 4x4 crossing of Donana with a specialist guide and binoculars included: the stork colonies on the marsh, the sand streets of El Rocio, a walk through the gallery forest, and the longest undeveloped beach in Spain.
€94per adultSee details
Approx. 10 to 12 hours
A walkway a metre wide, bolted to a vertical cliff a hundred metres above the river, through the Gaitanes gorge. Admission is included. Children under 8 are not admitted.
€99per adultSee details
Approx. 10 hours
A few square kilometres of Britain on the tip of Spain, with the Rock Tour included: the Nature Reserve, the viewpoint over the strait, St Michael’s Cave and the only wild monkeys in Europe. Bring your passport.
€129per adultSee details
Approx. 10 hours
The oak pastures of the Sierra de Aracena, where the best Iberian ham in Spain begins, with a visit to the dehesa where the pigs are reared and admission to the Gruta de las Maravillas under the town.
€119per adultSee details
Approx. 10 hours
Two landscapes that could not be less alike in one day: the green oak sierra of Aracena with its underground lakes, and the red terraced pits of Riotinto, where a river runs the colour of rust and NASA studies the water.
€95per adultSee details
Approx. 4 hours
The first Roman city founded outside Italy, fifteen minutes from Seville, with an amphitheatre for 25,000 and whole streets of mosaic houses. Plus the medieval monastery of San Isidoro del Campo.
€42per adultSee details
Approx. 4 hours
Half a day at a century-old estate in the countryside near Seville: the olive grove, the working mill, and a tasting of extra virgin oils poured the way the professionals do it.
€89per adultSee details
Approx. 4 hours
Half a day at a working winery in the countryside outside Seville, shown round by the people who make the wine, and a tasting of what they produce. Not sherry: the wine the province itself makes.
€95per adultSee details
Approx. 4 hours
A town on a ridge forty minutes from Seville, lived in for five thousand years, with a Roman necropolis you go down into, two fortified gates and a royal palace at the top.
€49per adultSee details
Approx. 4 hours
A working breeding estate in the countryside outside Seville, where fighting bulls live for years on open oak pasture. Seen from the ranch vehicle, with the people who run it. This is not a bullfight.
€95per adultSee details
Approx. 4 hours
Half a day on horseback in the countryside outside Seville, at walking pace and led by the riding centre. No experience needed, and private transport both ways is included.
€99per adultSee details
2 days, 1 night
Two days in Donana with a night in the sand-street village of El Rocio: the marshes, the gallery forest, the longest wild beach in Spain, the lynx breeding centre and a 4x4 route through the closed woodland.
€219per adultSee details
2 days, 1 night
The white villages and an oil mill in Zahara on the first day, a night in Ronda, and a free second day to see the town after the coaches have gone. Hotel included.
€219per adultSee details
2 days, 1 night
The same crossing as the day trip, but you stay: a guided day in Tangier with a Moroccan lunch, a night in a 4 star hotel, and the city in the evening once the ferries have gone. Passport required.
€319per adultSee details
2 days, 1 night
Three countries, two continents and two seas in forty-eight hours: the Rock of Gibraltar with its macaques, the ferry across the Strait, a guided day in Tangier with lunch, and a night in a 4 star hotel in Africa.
€379per adultSee details
3 or 4 days
Past Tangier and into the Rif: the blue town of Chefchaouen, and on the longer version the walled medina of Tetouan. Hotels, breakfasts and the guided day in Tangier included. Passport required.
€499per adultSee details
Approx. 1 hour
An hour of Pura Raza Espanola horses in an indoor arena: classical dressage set against the fair, Holy Week and the Rocio. The show is outside Seville and transport is not included.
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A full day
A theme park on the site of the 1992 exposition, themed on the Age of Discovery, with the Agua Magica water park and its sand beach included in the same ticket for the same day.
€50per adultSee details
Approx. 1 hour 30 minutes
Thirty-five tanks following the route of the first voyage around the world, which left from this river: seven thousand animals and the deepest shark tank on the Iberian Peninsula.
€17per adultSee details
From 3 hours
City bikes and mountain bikes from three hours to four weeks, and kickbikes by the hour, in a city with 180 km of segregated cycle lanes and no hills. Lock included.
€9per bike, 3 hoursSee details
By the day
Somewhere to leave the bags between check-out and the train. Four offices across the centre of Seville, open every day, priced by size and by day.
€3per bag, per daySee details
Nothing matches that combination.
Three full days covers the old town without rushing: one for the Alcázar and the Cathedral, one for Triana and the river, one for the Macarena, the parks and whatever you have left. A fourth and a fifth are what most people spend on a trip out of the city.
The Alcázar and the Cathedral. Both sell entry for a fixed time, both fill in spring and at weekends, and the queue at the box office on an April morning is the worst hour of a lot of people’s trip. Most other things here can be arranged a day or two ahead.
March to May, and late September to November. Summer is genuinely hot — well over forty degrees in July and August — and the city empties between two and six. Winter is mild, quiet and cheap, and the light is the best of the year.
The old town is, entirely, and it is flat: there is no hill anywhere in it. The distances that catch people out are the Macarena down to the Plaza de España, and anything across the river to the Cartuja. Those are the two where a bike, a carriage or the open-top bus earns its keep.
Córdoba comfortably, with time inside the Mosque-Cathedral and a walk through the Jewish quarter. Granada is a long day, around thirteen hours door to door with three or four of them inside the Alhambra, and it is the one people are gladdest they did.
Flamenco, mostly, and eating. The tablaos run shows every night of the year, the tapas walks go out when the bars fill rather than when they open, and there are guided walks through the old town at dusk that work better in the dark than they would at noon.
More than people expect. The aquarium and the theme park are the obvious ones, but the carriage ride, the river boat, the open-top bus and the bike tours all take small children easily, and the kayak takes them from seven. Use the family filter above to see them together.
No. Everything on this page either happens inside Seville or picks you up in it, with one exception: the equestrian show is at a stud farm outside the city and getting there is your own arrangement. For everything else a car is a parking problem, not a help.
The old town of Seville is the largest in Spain and you can still cross it on foot in half an hour. Everything most people come for — the Alcázar, the Cathedral, the Giralda, the Archivo de Indias, the Plaza de España and Triana across the bridge — sits inside a circle you could walk in a morning. What catches people out is not distance but heat and opening times: the two big monuments sell timed entry and the walk from the Macarena to the María Luisa park is longer than the map suggests in August.
From June to September the middle of the day belongs to nobody. Locals deal with it by doing the outdoor things early and the indoor things after lunch, and by putting everything social after eight. That is why the walking tours here start in the morning or at dusk, why the river activities run at the ends of the day, and why flamenco begins when other cities are finishing dinner. Planning against that rhythm is the most common mistake a first visit makes.
Part of what makes the city worth four or five days rather than three is what surrounds it. Córdoba and its Mosque-Cathedral, Granada and the Alhambra, the white villages of the Sierra de Grazalema, the Doñana marshes, the beaches of the Costa de la Luz, the sherry bodegas of Jerez, and Morocco across the Strait are all close enough to leave after breakfast and be back for dinner. A day out of Seville is not time taken from the city; for most people it is the day they remember.
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