About Seville
Seville is a flamboyant, cultural and historic city of Southern Spain‘s Andalusia region. Read this post to know about the best things to do in Cultural Seville. No trip to Spain is complete without doing a Seville trip because of it’s rich cultural and historical value in Europe.
It is believed that this cultural city of Spain is founded by Greek god Hercules about 3000 years back. This city is famous for flamenco dance and also has a rich Moorish heritage.
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1.) Alcazar of Seville
This is a royal palace of Seville, developed by Moorish kings. One of the most beautiful palaces in Spain. It has several hectares of the garden inside and surrounding it.
Walls of Alcazar are adorned with authentic Spanish styled ceramic tiles. If you want to stay near the historic center of Seville, then click here to book an authentic Spanish style of living.
2.) Plaza de Espana
Semi-circular styled Renaissance-Moorish styled grand palace is the main attraction of this city. In front of the palace, there is 500-meter canal is built crossing 4 bridges. This canal is popularly known as Venice of Spain. Famous Star war series – Episode II and Lawrence of Arabia has been shot here.
3.) Seville Cathedral
It is the largest Gothic cathedral in the world and also a UNESCO World heritage.
4.) Giralda
It is the bell tower of Seville Cathedral built during the Moorish period as a Minaret. It has been since Medieval times.
5.) Streets of Seville
Walking in the streets of Seville with full of antique and ancient Spanish styled homes, colorful Andalusian buildings, tapas bars, cafes are worth to explore the culture and architecture of Spain.
6.) Ceramics/Pottery work
Seville is well known for hand made brightly colored ceramic tiles and pottery work. These tiles are adorned on walls of palaces, houses, and floors of each and every corner of this city. Also, utensils are made through this art. The best place to purchase a souvenir.
7.) Flamenco Dance
Seville is also well known for Flamenco Dance and Dancers. It has a historic role in this dance form. Also, it has a Flamenco Dance museum and houses many bars with live Flamenco dance with traditional Spanish music and dinner. If you want to learn authentic Flamenco then read more about tips to learn & see authentic Flamenco in Seville.
8.) Spanish Food
If you are in the cultural city of Spain then try authentic Spanish dishes like Paella and Tapas.
9.) Living in Spanish styled palatial Villa
Traditional styled Spanish villa converted into a hotel.
10.) Flora and Fauna
Seville also has many nature parks with many species of bright colored flowers. One of the famous parks is Maria Lusia Park.
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I lived in Sevilla for 4 months so this post brought back so many memories. Plaza de Espana is my pavorite piece of architecture in Spain. It’s so dang beautiful!!!!
I need to visit Spain (and Seville of course) so badly! Just seeing that cathedral would make the visit worth it!
Ah, Spain! This country isn’t so beautiful and it’s a shame that I haven’t been able to visit it yet. I’ll add Seville to my list for when I get to visit Spain, thanks for shainrg! 😊
Seville looks absolutely beautiful. I can not even believe that I have never been to Spain before, we are planning on to next year, maybe I can add this as a place to go.
Seville looks like a great place to visit. I want to see the beautiful architecture of the cathedral. Will definitely put this on my bookmark as my future references to my next travel visit.
Sevilla is my favourite city in Spain for all the reasons you list. I love the colours of the Giralda and Plaza de Espana too. You can’t beat Spanish food, I love tapas with morcilla!
So useful! thanks for sharing! I’m coming to Seville this May
I´m portuguese and i dance flamenco for about 10 years. It´s a passion. This is one of the reasons that i really like Seville. I´ve been several times and i always want to return!
Wow you dance Flamenco… it is a very beautiful dance form.
I am in complete love with Seville. The Alcazar is so pretty, I mean imagine those Game of Thrones’ sets in the Ambassador Hall. I can resonate with your feeling while you were there. It is one of the prettiest cities in Spain.
I agree, I loved the culture and artistic vibes of Seville and found it very interesting.