Seville travel guides & articles

All 21 in-depth pieces we’ve published on Seville — newest first.

Inside Seville's Royal Alcázar Without the Queue

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Inside Seville's Royal Alcázar Without the Queue

A thousand years of palace sold in thirty-minute slices: when to book your entry, which rooms repay standing still, and what to do with the hour before your slot.

Booking Seville Around the 2026 Bienal de Flamenco

Booking Seville Around the 2026 Bienal de Flamenco

Three dates in September and October set the shape of the trip; the tablaos, the peña and the tapas bars arrange themselves around them.

What to See in Seville When the Alcázar Has No Tickets Left

What to See in Seville When the Alcázar Has No Tickets Left

Sixteen ways to spend the hours you had set aside for the Alcázar, with 2026 prices and the free-slot and door policies that decide whether you get in.

How to Plan a Seville Day Around 40-Degree Heat

How to Plan a Seville Day Around 40-Degree Heat

Monuments before noon, thick walls and water through the afternoon, and a city that only really opens after seven. How to time a Seville summer day, with real prices.

Seven Nights in Seville's Thousand-Caseta Tent City

Seven Nights in Seville's Thousand-Caseta Tent City

Around a thousand casetas go up in Los Remedios each April and nearly all of them are private. This guide covers the ones that admit anyone, what they charge, and how to move through the week.

Flamenco in Seville: The Tablaos Where It Still Hurts

Flamenco in Seville: The Tablaos Where It Still Hurts

Seville's flamenco splits cleanly into two economies — the dinner-show circuit and the handful of Triana and Santa Cruz rooms where the cante still comes from somewhere real — and this guide tells you which is which, seat by seat, euro by euro.

Walking, Eating and Wrangling Kids Through Seville in October

Walking, Eating and Wrangling Kids Through Seville in October

The month you can walk the city again: the opening hours, tapas counters and family days that actually work in October 2026.

Seville with Children Beyond the Cathedral and Alcázar

Seville with Children Beyond the Cathedral and Alcázar

River boats, working markets, a camera obscura and the old world's-fair park where Sevillano families spend a Saturday, with the 2026 prices and opening hours that decide how the day runs.

Your First Night Out in Seville, Hour by Hour

Your First Night Out in Seville, Hour by Hour

Sixteen rooms, real door policies and the running order that keeps a first night in Seville from ending at ten past ten.

Seville's Feria de Abril 2027: Dates, Casetas, Dress Code and How to Plan Your Visit

Seville's Feria de Abril 2027: Dates, Casetas, Dress Code and How to Plan Your Visit

The Feria is free to walk into, but the casetas aren't. What a visitor can realistically do at Seville's April fair, from renting a dress to the one part nobody is turned away from.

Christmas in Seville 2026: Lights Across 300 Streets, Markets and Three Kings

Christmas in Seville 2026: Lights Across 300 Streets, Markets and Three Kings

The street lights come on across the centre, the Alcázar night trail charges for entry, and on certain nights Seville stays lit until 01:00.

Seville's rooftop terrazas

Seville's rooftop terrazas

From the cathedral-facing classics to the pool decks hidden above old palaces, a guide to who each of Seville's rooftops actually suits, and how to book, dress, and time your way onto every one of them in 2026.

Cross the Bridge into Seville's Triana in October

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Cross the Bridge into Seville's Triana in October

Seville's old ceramics and sailors' quarter is an outdoor place with four very good indoor hours, and in October 2026 the day turns on when you time the crossing, the market and the flamenco.

Where to Eat and Drink Around Seville's Bienal Nights

Where to Eat and Drink Around Seville's Bienal Nights

Booked dinners, standing tapas bars, tablaos and late rooms: how to feed an evening in Seville when the flamenco festival sets the clock.

Behind the Heavy Doors: Seville's Secret Patios of Shade and Water

Behind the Heavy Doors: Seville's Secret Patios of Shade and Water

The city's coolest, most beautiful rooms are the ones you have to knock, book, or tiptoe to reach — here is how to get behind Seville's studded doors and into its fountain courtyards.

What Seville Eats When It's Not Eating Tapas

What Seville Eats When It's Not Eating Tapas

Churros fried since 1904, fish in a paper cone, rice cooked to order and three Michelin kitchens: this is the Sevillian food that never turns up on a tapas crawl.

Cooking paella on a Seville rooftop under the Giralda

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Cooking paella on a Seville rooftop under the Giralda

Ten guests, a terrace three floors above Calle Mármoles, and the bell tower in the gap over the parapet. Plus what else to book around it.

Tiled benches and October shade in Seville's Maria Luisa Park

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Tiled benches and October shade in Seville's Maria Luisa Park

Forestier's garden is free all day. The canal boats are running again now that the summer suspension has lifted, and the Lope de Vega has reopened for autumn.

Eating Through Seville's Santa Cruz One Tapa at a Time

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Eating Through Seville's Santa Cruz One Tapa at a Time

The old judería has no ticket and no door policy, and within ten minutes of the Cathedral there are enough standing counters to eat your way through a whole evening.

Day Trips from Seville That Only Need a Train Ticket

Day Trips from Seville That Only Need a Train Ticket

Twelve places you can reach from Santa Justa and back in a day, with the timetables, door rules and prices that decide whether each one works.

The City in Ceramic: Seville's Azulejo Trail Through History

The City in Ceramic: Seville's Azulejo Trail Through History

A walking trail through Seville told entirely in fired clay, from the Triana kilns that started it to the tiled bar where it's best to end the day.