Three days on foot: the Alcázar, the Cathedral and Santa Cruz with the river at dusk, the Plaza de España, Triana's market and a flamenco night, then the Casa de Pilatos and the Macarena before a last round of tapas on Calle Betis. Lunch at 2 p.m., dinner at 9 p.m., no metro needed.
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Checked October 10, 2026. That’s the day we last confirmed the hours, prices and closed days.
March, April, May, October and early November are the months to come: 68 to 82°F (20 to 28°C) and the orange trees in blossom in spring. From mid-June to mid-September afternoons pass 104°F (40°C) and the city shuts between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.; walk early, sleep after lunch, live at night. Semana Santa (the week before Easter) and the Feria de Abril (a week in late April or early May, two weeks after Easter) are the two great weeks: processions and casetas, rooms at double or triple price and booked months out, and most monuments on shortened hours. Check the city's calendar before you fix dates near either.
Santa Cruz or the Arenal for the monuments on foot and the evenings in the lanes; Alfalfa or around Las Setas for a quieter, more local center with the best bars; Triana across the river for ceramics, flamenco and Calle Betis at night, fifteen minutes to the Cathedral. Avoid rooms over a square in Santa Cruz in summer: the terraces run past 1 a.m.
Walk; everything in these three days sits inside a 3-kilometer circle and the lanes are too narrow for anything else. The single tram line (T1) runs from Plaza Nueva past the Cathedral to San Bernardo and is useful once; the metro has one line that skirts the center and you will not need it. TUSSAM buses cost around €1.40 a ride, paid in cash or by bank card on board. Bikes and the Sevici bike-share scheme work well on the flat river paths; taxis are metered and cheap for a group.
Santa Cruz · 150 min
Book the 9:30 a.m. timed slot online, since spring and fall dates sell out days ahead. Pedro's palace and the Patio de las Doncellas first, then the gardens, which are the cool part; add the Cuarto Real Alto (€5.50) for the royal apartments upstairs.
€15.50
Santa Cruz · 30 min
Across the Plaza del Triunfo, the 16th-century merchants' exchange holds the paperwork of the Spanish empire. It is free and keeps office hours (mornings only on Sunday), so go now; half an hour is enough.
Santa Cruz · 100 min
Climb the Giralda first (35 ramps, no steps) while your legs are fresh, then see Columbus's tomb and the enormous main altarpiece. Entry is timed, by the Giralda door, and on Sundays it opens only at 2:30 p.m.
€13
Santa Catalina · 75 min
Fifteen minutes north at Calle Gerona 40, the oldest bar in the city (1670): order at the counter and the waiter chalks your bill on the wood. Try espinacas con garbanzos, pavías de bacalao and a cold Cruzcampo; Bodega Santa Cruz by the Cathedral does the same if the counter is three deep.
Santa Cruz · 75 min
Back down into the old Jewish quarter when the shade has crossed the lanes: Calle Agua along the Alcázar wall, the Plaza de Doña Elvira and the Jardines de Murillo for a bench. In summer it is siesta hour and the shutters are down, so the lanes are cool and empty.
Arenal · 60 min
Walk the Paseo de Colón past the bullring to the Puente de Isabel II and cross to Triana, where the Torre del Oro and the Giralda catch the last light as rowers pass under you. Sunset is around 9:30 p.m. in June and 6:15 p.m. in December.
Arenal · 105 min
Back across the bridge to Calle García de Vinuesa 11, an 1850 bodega with wine still in clay tinajas: chacinas, a montadito of pringá, a glass of manzanilla. Closed Sunday; Bodeguita Casablanca on Adolfo Rodríguez Jurado is the next stop.
Parque de María Luisa · 60 min
The 1929 exhibition's half-moon of brick, tile and bridges is free and open all day; at 8:30 a.m. you share it with joggers and the first horse carriages. Find your province's tiled bench, one for each of Spain's 48, before the tour buses arrive at 10.
Parque de María Luisa · 60 min
The park behind the plaza has avenues of plane trees, tiled fountains and the Plaza de América with its two museums. The shade here is deep, which matters from June.
Arenal · 75 min
Walk north past the old tobacco factory (now the university) to the Alfonso XIII, built for the same 1929 exhibition; look at the facade from the street or buy a coffee for the tiles. Then the 13th-century Torre del Oro, where the small naval museum costs around €3 and closes mid-afternoon.
€3
Triana · 90 min
Across the Puente de Isabel II, the market sits on the foundations of the Inquisition's castle; stalls are open 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Monday to Saturday. Two streets back on Calle Callao, the Centro Cerámica Triana (closed Monday) is the old Santa Ana tile factory with its kilns intact.
Triana · 75 min
Calle Antillano Campos 26, a tiled corner bar: champiñones a la plancha, punta de solomillo, a caña. No reservations and full by 2:30 p.m.; La Antigua Abacería de San Lorenzo is the sit-down alternative.
Triana · 90 min
Calle San Jacinto, the Capilla de los Marineros (free) and the ceramics shops on Calle Alfarería. Then go back to your room, as the city does; you have a late night ahead.
Encarnación · 75 min
The timber canopy over the Plaza de la Encarnación has a walkway, a 360-degree deck and a night light show for around €15. Book the timed slot half an hour before sundown and stay for the lights; in summer sunset is after 9 p.m., so swap this with the flamenco show.
€15
Encarnación · 150 min
Calle Cuna 6, a five-minute walk: two one-hour shows a night, at 7:30 and 9 p.m., with four artists and no microphones in a courtyard of about a hundred seats, €18. Book on their own site a few days ahead; afterwards La Carbonería on Calle Céspedes is a free, unamplified flamenco bar.
€18
San Esteban · 90 min
Be at the door at 9 a.m.: the main patio, the azulejos and the garden are empty for the first half hour and the groups arrive at 10. Entry is €12 for the lower floor and patios, €18 with the guided visit upstairs.
€12
Alameda · 60 min
Walk north through the Alfalfa and along Calle Feria (the Thursday flea market) to the long plaza with Roman columns at each end, the oldest public garden in Europe and now the bar district. Coffee and a tostada con tomate at any terrace; this is where the city has breakfast at eleven.
Macarena · 60 min
Ten minutes north by the old city wall: the Virgin of Hope on the altar, free to see when there is no mass (mornings until around 2 p.m., and again from 5). The treasury museum next door (around €5) shows the Semana Santa floats and the Virgin's mantles.
San Lorenzo · 90 min
Calle Eslava 3, by the church of San Lorenzo, the bar that modernized Seville tapas: order the slow-cooked egg on boletus cake and the honey-glazed pork rib. No reservations at the bar, so arrive at 1:30 p.m. or wait; closed Monday, when Casa Ricardo on Calle Hernán Cortés stands in.
Santa Catalina · 120 min
The Palacio de las Dueñas (Calle Dueñas 5, ten minutes east, around €15) is the Alba family's palace where Antonio Machado was born. Or take bus M-170 from Plaza de Armas to Itálica, the Roman city with a 25,000-seat amphitheater: 30 minutes, around €1.80, closed Monday and shut by 3 p.m. in summer.
€15
Arenal · 75 min
Down to the Guadalquivir at the Torre del Oro and along the Paseo de Colón as the light goes, across the bridge once more. If you did Itálica, the M-170 drops you at Plaza de Armas, five minutes from the bridge.
Triana · 120 min
The riverfront street with the Giralda across the water: Bar La Primera del Puente for fried fish and the view, then tapas at the counters toward the Puente de Triana. The terraces are for spring or fall; in winter eat inside at Casa Cuesta on Calle Castilla, a tiled 1880 bar.
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From Seville airport (SVQ), the TUSSAM EA bus runs every 20 to 30 minutes from early morning to past midnight to the Prado de San Sebastián and Plaza de Armas, calling at Santa Justa station, in about 35 minutes for €6 (€8 round trip, valid the next day), paid on board. An official taxi to the center is a fixed fare of around €25 to €30, a little more at night and during the Feria. There is no rail or metro link. From Madrid, the AVE reaches Santa Justa in 2 hours 30; from Málaga, the Avant in just under 2 hours.
About €70 to €110 a day per person. The Alcázar with the Cuarto Real Alto is €21 and the Cathedral €13; a tapas lunch at the counter is €12 to €18, a flamenco show €18 to €25, and the bus €1.40 a ride on the one day you need it.
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Day 1: the Alcázar's palaces, the Cathedral and the Archivo are all under cover and a few minutes apart. Waystop's rain plan can add a second version of the day that swaps the Santa Cruz walk for the Museo de Bellas Artes, free for EU citizens.
Yes. Entry is timed and the morning slots sell out days ahead in spring and fall, weeks ahead in Semana Santa. The Cuarto Real Alto is a separate timed ticket for the same visit; the line at the Patio de Banderas desk is for leftovers.
Doable, not pleasant: 104°F (40°C) most afternoons and some bars shut for the month. Keep the plan but move everything to before 1 p.m. and after 8 p.m., and pick a room with a pool or a rooftop.
Yes, for the monuments, two neighborhoods and a flamenco night. A fourth day adds Córdoba's Mezquita by train or Cádiz and the Atlantic; a fifth, Jerez and a sherry bodega.
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