Wander through the Casco Antiguo, a labyrinth that holds everything from the open expanse of the Alameda de Hércules to the monumental Archivo General de Indias. Your journey will take you past the Basílica de la Macarena, down the secretive Callejón del Agua, and into architectural treasures like the Casa de Pilatos and Convento de Santa Paula. Get ready to uncover the unique stories held within every corner of this historic neighborhood.
Alameda de Hércules
Plaza Alameda de Hercules, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41002, Spain
Laid out in 1574, this is the oldest public garden in Spain and one of the oldest in all of Europe.
Archivo General de Indias
3 Avenida de la Constitución, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41004, Spain
Every piece of paper that shaped the colonization of the Americas — treaties, letters, maps, ship manifests, death warrants — ended up here.
Basílica de la Macarena
1 Calle Bécquer, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41002, Spain
Seville has dozens of churches, but this is the one that makes the city weep.
Callejón del Agua
Callejón del Agua, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41004, Spain
This narrow alley runs along the outer wall of the Real Alcazar, and its name — Water Lane — comes from a clay pipe that once carried water from the Carmona aqueduct into the palace gardens.
Casa de Pilatos
1 Plaza de Pilatos, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41003, Spain
The name of this palace is based on a misunderstanding, but it is a beautiful one.
Convento de Santa Paula
11 Calle de Santa Paula, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41003, Spain
Behind the unassuming walls of this working convent, enclosed Hieronymite nuns have been baking marmalade and sweets since 1473 — more than five and a half centuries of uninterrupted jam production.
Hospital de la Caridad
3 Calle Temprado, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41001, Spain
The man who founded this hospital was, by most accounts, the worst person in Seville before he became the best.
Iglesia de San Luis de los Franceses
27 Calle de San Luis, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41003, Spain
If you can visit only one Baroque church in Seville that is not the cathedral, make it this one.
Metropol Parasol (Las Setas)
Casco Antiguo, Seville, Spain
When the city demolished an old market in the Plaza de la Encarnacion and started digging foundations for a new parking garage, they hit Roman ruins.
Museo de Bellas Artes
9 Plaza del Museo, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41001, Spain
Spain's second-most important art museum — after the Prado — is housed in a former convent that is itself a work of art.
Museo del Baile Flamenco
3 Calle de Manuel Rojas Marcos, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41004, Spain
In a city that claims to be the birthplace of flamenco — and will fight anyone who says otherwise — there was no dedicated museum to the art form until 2006.
Palacio de la Condesa de Lebrija
8 Calle Cuna, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41004, Spain
In the early twentieth century, the Countess of Lebrija did something that would be a jailable offence today: she bought Roman mosaics excavated from the ruins of Italica, the ancient city just outside Seville, and had them installed as the floors of her sixteenth-century palace.
Palacio de San Telmo
Avenida de Roma, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41013, Spain
This extravagant Baroque palace has had more career changes than most buildings dream of.
Parque de María Luisa
Paseo de las Delicias, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41013, Spain
Half of this park was a private garden that belonged to the Palacio de San Telmo until 1893, when the Infanta Maria Luisa Fernanda — Duchess of Montpensier and sister of Queen Isabel II — donated the grounds to the city of Seville.
Plaza de Toros de la Real Maestranza
12 Paseo de Cristóbal Colón, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41001, Spain
This is the cathedral of bullfighting, and that is not hyperbole — it is the phrase Spaniards themselves use for the oldest and most prestigious bullring in the country.
Plaza del Cabildo
Plaza el Cabildo, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41001, Spain
Hundreds of thousands of tourists walk within twenty metres of this square every year and never find it.
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