9 Hidden Gems in Sevilla Most People Walk Right Past
9 landmarks with verified facts and stories
Barrio Santa Cruz
Barrio Santa Cruz, 41004 Sevilla
This tangled labyrinth of whitewashed alleyways and jasmine-draped patios was once the most feared address in Seville.
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.
Centro Cerámico Triana
16 Calle Callao, Triana, Seville, 41010, Spain
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Triana
Barrio de Triana, 41010 Sevilla
Cross the Guadalquivir on the Puente de Isabel II and you leave tourist Seville behind.
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