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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, and each language has its own dates. Select your date in the booking calendar to see whether there is an English departure.
The group meets on the Plaza de la Encarnación, under the Metropol Parasol — the timber canopy everyone in Seville calls Las Setas.
Pl. de la Encarnación, Casco Antiguo, 41003 Seville · View on Google Maps
Please arrive a few minutes early, so that the whole group can set off together.
A guided walk of about an hour and a half through the Macarena quarter, with an official guide.
Food and drink are not included. This is a walking tour and there is no stop for a meal.
An hour and a half outdoors on flat streets. Comfortable shoes, and in summer a hat and water.
The route passes the Feria street market. If you want time to browse it, come back afterwards — the walk keeps moving.
Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before the activity.
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An hour and a half in the Seville that is not on the postcards
Seville keeps a great deal of its history in places that go unnoticed. This short walk goes north from Las Setas into the Macarena, the quarter that has the medieval wall, the most venerated image in the city and a street market that has been trading for centuries — and almost none of the crowds.
From the Mushrooms into Calle Feria
The route starts under the Metropol Parasol and turns into Calle Feria, past the Mudejar churches of the quarter and the covered market, to the stretch of street where el Jueves is held — the Thursday flea market, one of the oldest in Europe, which has been selling second-hand things in the same place since the Middle Ages.
The Basilica and the gate
Then the Basilica of La Macarena, and the Macarena gate beside it: the only one of the city gates still standing, with the surviving run of medieval wall attached to it. Both are ordinary parts of the neighbourhood, used daily, which is not how monuments usually feel.
Up Calle San Luis
The walk finishes along Calle San Luis, which follows the line of the Roman road out of the city and is lined with churches, convents and the kind of courtyard you only see because somebody left a door open. Your guide fills in the legends and the local traditions as you go, which is most of what this quarter is made of.
Your questions answered
Frequently asked questions
About an hour and a half, all of it walking, outdoors.
On the Plaza de la Encarnación, under the Metropol Parasol, in the centre of the old town.
No. This is a walking tour of the quarter and its streets; the visit is from outside. If you want to go inside the Basilica of La Macarena and the Palacio de las Dueñas, the longer route through the same quarter includes both.
No, and there is no stop for a meal on a walk of this length. The route passes plenty of places worth coming back to.
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.
No. There are a few departures a week, so check the booking calendar for the date you have in mind.
Yes. Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before the activity.
Planning your walk through the Macarena
Practical questions about the quarter itself, useful background before you travel.
The old working district north of the centre, inside and around the surviving city wall. It is where Seville goes about its business: markets, bars that have not been redecorated, and the basilica that empties the whole city into these streets one night a year.
The Thursday flea market on Calle Feria, held in the same street since the Middle Ages, which makes it one of the oldest markets in Europe. Books, tools, furniture and a great deal that defies description. It runs in the morning.
Of the gates of the old walled city, yes — it is the one still standing in its place, with a good stretch of the Almohad wall running from it. The rest came down in the 19th century when the city outgrew them.
Morning, especially Thursday, when the market is on and the streets are working. In summer the middle of the day is punishing anywhere in Seville and this walk is outdoors from start to finish.
The meeting point is about ten minutes on foot north of the Cathedral, and the route goes further north from there. It is a different city from the one around the Alcázar.
