Everything you need to know
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 walk runs on several evenings a week and sets off at dusk, so the start time moves with the season. Select your date in the booking calendar to see the time for that day.
Online booking closes two hours before the start.
The group meets on the Plaza del Triunfo, beside the statue of the Immaculate Conception, between the Cathedral and the Alcázar.
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Please arrive a few minutes early, so that the whole group can set off together.
A guided walk of about two hours through the historic centre, with a professional guide.
Two hours on your feet, outdoors, after dark. Comfortable shoes; in winter a jacket, because standing still in the old town at night is colder than walking through it.
The route goes through the narrow streets of Santa Cruz, which are cobbled in places.
Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before the activity.
Ways to visit
Choose how you visit
Everything on this page describes the shared evening walk. The same visit is also sold in other formats, each with its own group size, languages and price, and every one of them is booked right here.
Shared evening walk
From €15per adult
- GroupRegular group
- LanguagesEnglish
The same route through the old town at nightfall, in an open group. Two hours.
Check datesPrivate group
From €126per group
- GroupYour party only
- LanguagesEnglish or Spanish, chosen when you book
The same walk for your party alone, priced per group rather than per person, and available on far more evenings than the shared one.
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The old town after dark, and the stories it does not put on the plaques
This is one of the walks the people of Seville do themselves, which is not true of most things sold to visitors here. It starts on the Plaza del Triunfo as the light goes, and spends two hours on the legends, the tragedies and the unexplained things that the city has accumulated over two thousand years and mostly kept to itself.
Through Santa Cruz
The first part goes into the Barrio de Santa Cruz, the old Jewish quarter, where the streets are narrow enough to touch both walls and the stories are the oldest. Calle Susona is here, and so is the reason it is called that, which your guide will tell you properly.
Romans, Moors, Jews and Christians
From there the walk works through the layers of the city by way of its legends: what each of the peoples who held Seville left behind, and the tragedies and anecdotes attached to specific corners that you would otherwise walk past without a second look.
And the recent ones
Not all of it is medieval. The route takes in Calle Fabiola and the Plaza de la Alfalfa, and the stretch of Calle Laraña that gets called the golden mile of the city’s mysteries — disturbing things that happened close enough to living memory that people still argue about them.
What sort of walk this is
Stories of love and death and other events in the lives of ordinary Sevillians, told in the places they happened. It is not a theatrical ghost tour with actors jumping out; it is a guide who knows the city and the material, walking you round it in the dark.
Your questions answered
Frequently asked questions
About two hours, walking, outdoors.
On the Plaza del Triunfo, next to the statue of the Immaculate Conception, between the Cathedral and the Alcázar.
At dusk, so the time changes with the season. The booking calendar shows the start time for each date.
No. The whole walk is through the streets and squares of the centre.
It is not designed to be. There are no actors and nobody jumps out. What makes it work is that the stories are real and you are standing where they happened.
There is a reduced rate from seven years old. Whether a particular child will enjoy two hours of storytelling after dark is a judgement only you can make.
The walk 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.
Yes. Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before the activity.
Planning your evening in the old town
Practical questions about the city itself, useful background before you travel.
The daughter of a converted Jewish family in 15th-century Seville who, the story goes, betrayed a conspiracy her father was part of to save the Christian man she loved, and asked for her skull to be hung over her door afterwards. There is a tiled plaque on the street that bears her name. How much of it is true is exactly the sort of thing this walk is about.
Yes. It was the Jewish quarter of the city until 1391, and the layout of narrow lanes and small squares is what survived. The whitewash and the geraniums are largely 20th century.
It is one of the best. The old town is small, flat, well lit and busy until late, and the temperature in summer only becomes bearable after sunset, which is why Sevillians do most of their walking then.
A small square east of the centre that was the Roman forum, then a hay and livestock market, and is now where people meet for a drink. Layers, in other words, which is the theme.
No. The walk works as a first evening in the city as well as a tenth, because it moves through the centre and the geography explains itself as you go.
