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Sightseeing bus details
There are three tickets: 24 hours, 48 hours and a premium ticket that adds extra admissions and guided walks. Select your date in the booking calendar to compare them and see the current prices.
Buses run every day from mid-morning. The full circuit takes about 75 minutes and there are fourteen stops.
Your ticket can be used on any day within twelve months of purchase, so buying it now does not commit you to a date.
You exchange your booking for the ticket at one of four offices in the centre, and they tell you where to pick up the bus.
C. Arfe 3, C. Francos 19, C. Trajano 6 or C. Alfonso XII 35, Seville · View on Google Maps
Unlimited hop-on hop-off travel for 24 or 48 hours, at fourteen stops around the city.
Audio commentary in sixteen languages on board.
The premium ticket runs for 48 hours and adds four guided walking tours, with limited places, plus admission to several attractions — the Seville aquarium, the flamenco dance museum and both football grounds among them — and half an hour of bicycle hire.
The top deck is open. Hat and sunscreen in summer, something warm in winter.
Ride the full circuit once before getting off anywhere: 75 minutes gives you the whole map, and then you know which stops you actually want.
Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before the activity.
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Fourteen stops, seventy-five minutes, and the city laid out flat
Seville is walkable, but it is bigger than the ten streets around the Cathedral, and in August it is very hot. An open-top bus solves both problems: the full circuit is 75 minutes with commentary, and the ticket lets you get off and back on as often as you like.
Where it goes
The circuit takes in the Cathedral and the Alcázar, the Torre del Oro and the Maestranza, the Plaza de España and the María Luisa park, the Isla de la Cartuja and the Expo site, the Alameda and the Macarena, crossing the river twice.
Hop on, hop off
Fourteen stops, all beside something worth stopping for. Buses come round often enough that getting off is not a commitment, which is the whole argument for this over a coach tour.
The commentary
Recorded, in sixteen languages, and better than most: it explains what you are passing rather than reading out dates. Bring headphones you like if you are fussy about that sort of thing.
Three tickets
Twenty-four hours is enough for most people. Forty-eight suits anyone spreading the city over a long weekend. The premium is the forty-eight hour ticket with four guided walking tours added, plus entry to several attractions and half an hour of bicycle hire.
Your questions answered
Frequently asked questions
About 75 minutes without getting off.
Fourteen, spread across both banks of the river.
No. The ticket can be used on any day within twelve months, and the clock starts when you first board.
At one of four offices in the centre — C. Arfe 3, C. Francos 19, C. Trajano 6 or C. Alfonso XII 35 — where you are told where to catch the bus.
Time, and extras. Twenty-four or forty-eight hours of unlimited travel, and a premium ticket that runs for forty-eight hours and adds four guided walking tours, admission to several attractions and half an hour of bicycle hire.
Sixteen, English and Spanish among them.
Yes. Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before the activity.
Getting around Seville
Practical questions about the city, useful background before you travel.
The old town is, entirely, and it is flat. What is not walkable in a summer afternoon is the distance from the Macarena to the Plaza de España, or a crossing to the Cartuja, which is where a bus or a bike earns its keep.
Above forty degrees in July and August, routinely. Locals deal with it by doing nothing outdoors between two and six, and an open-top bus in that window is not the kindest plan.
The Plaza de España, which is a fifteen-minute walk from anywhere useful; the Isla de la Cartuja, if the Expo site or the monastery interests you; and Triana, which deserves longer than a stop.
One line, which is of limited use to visitors, plus a tram that runs a few hundred metres through the centre. Walking, bikes and this bus are how the city is actually covered.
