Everything you need to know
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Prices vary with the season. Select your date in the booking calendar to see the current rate.
Children must be accompanied by an adult; one adult may be responsible for up to four children.
If you book a reduced rate, bring the document that proves it on the day.
Select your date in the booking calendar to see whether there is a performance and at what time.
Bookings close 24 hours before the start time.
The show is not in Seville. It takes place at an equestrian centre on the Seville to Madrid road, and there is no transport included: you get there under your own steam.
Yeguada Torreluna, Av. Sevilla-Madrid km 524, Camino Pastora · View on Google Maps
Arrive about twenty minutes before the show starts.
One ticket to the show, which lasts about an hour.
Transport is not included and has to be arranged by you.
Allow time for the drive out and back. It is worth checking your route before you set off.
It is an indoor arena, so the weather does not matter.
Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before the activity.
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An hour of Andalusian horses, doing what they were bred to do
The Pura Raza Española is the reason Andalusia has the reputation it has for horses, and this show is built around them: an hour of dressage, folklore and the traditions the region organises its year by, in an indoor arena.
What happens
Classical dressage, the movements the breed was developed for, set against the customs of the region: carnival, Holy Week, the fair, the pilgrimage to El Rocío. It is choreographed rather than a demonstration, and it is designed to be watched rather than studied.
The horses
Pura Raza Española throughout — the Andalusian horse — which is the breed that ended up in every riding school in Europe because of exactly what you will see it do here.
Getting there
The arena is out of town on the road towards Madrid, and there is no transfer: this is a ticket, not an excursion. If you have a car it is straightforward; if not, budget for a taxi each way and check the return before you go.
Your questions answered
Frequently asked questions
About sixty minutes.
No. The show is at an equestrian centre outside Seville on the road to Madrid, and getting there and back is your own arrangement.
About twenty minutes before the start.
Yes, in a covered arena, so it goes ahead whatever the weather.
Very. Children must be accompanied, and one adult can take responsibility for up to four of them.
Yes. Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before the activity.
Andalusian horses
Practical questions about the breed and the tradition, useful background before you travel.
The Andalusian horse: compact, grey more often than not, with a high-stepping action and a temperament that made it the preferred horse of the European courts for three centuries. Most classical dressage was developed on it.
A pilgrimage to a village in the marshes west of Seville, made partly on horseback and by ox-cart, that moves the best part of a million people every spring. Horses are not decorative in this part of Spain.
Because the countryside around it breeds them, and because the two biggest events in the city’s year — the April fair and the Rocío — are both built around riding. The carriages in the centre are the visible end of something much larger.
No. The Royal Andalusian School is in Jerez, an hour and a half south, and it is a different institution with a different show. This one is closer to Seville.
