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13 Cultural Landmarks in Sevilla

13 landmarks with verified facts and stories

Alameda de Hércules
~3 min

Alameda de Hércules

Plaza Alameda de Hercules, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41002, Spain

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Laid out in 1574, this is the oldest public garden in Spain and one of the oldest in all of Europe.

Avenida de la Constitución
~3 min

Avenida de la Constitución

Av. de la Constitución, 41001 Sevilla

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This broad boulevard is the ceremonial spine of Seville, the street where every Semana Santa procession passes and where the city puts itself on display.

Barrio Santa Cruz
~4 min

Barrio Santa Cruz

Barrio Santa Cruz, 41004 Sevilla

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This tangled labyrinth of whitewashed alleyways and jasmine-draped patios was once the most feared address in Seville.

Basílica de la Macarena
~3 min

Basílica de la Macarena

1 Calle Bécquer, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41002, Spain

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Seville has dozens of churches, but this is the one that makes the city weep.

Callejón del Agua
~2 min

Callejón del Agua

Callejón del Agua, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41004, Spain

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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.

Centro Cerámico Triana
~2 min

Centro Cerámico Triana

16 Calle Callao, Triana, Seville, 41010, Spain

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Every tiled bench in the Plaza de Espana, every azulejo facade on a church, every decorative ceramic panel in a Seville courtyard — many of them started life in the kilns of Triana.

Convento de Santa Paula
~2 min

Convento de Santa Paula

11 Calle de Santa Paula, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41003, Spain

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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.

Mercado de Triana
~2 min

Mercado de Triana

Triana, Seville, Spain

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There is something darkly poetic about eating tapas on top of the ruins of the Inquisition.

Museo del Baile Flamenco
~3 min

Museo del Baile Flamenco

3 Calle de Manuel Rojas Marcos, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41004, Spain

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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.

Parque de María Luisa
~3 min

Parque de María Luisa

Paseo de las Delicias, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41013, Spain

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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
~3 min

Plaza de Toros de la Real Maestranza

12 Paseo de Cristóbal Colón, Casco Antiguo, Seville, 41001, Spain

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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.

Real Fábrica de Tabacos
~3 min

Real Fábrica de Tabacos

C. San Fernando, 4, 41004 Sevilla

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This massive neoclassical fortress was not built to defend Seville from armies — it was built to defend tobacco from thieves.

Triana
~4 min

Triana

Barrio de Triana, 41010 Sevilla

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Cross the Guadalquivir on the Puente de Isabel II and you leave tourist Seville behind.

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