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The Alameda and San Lorenzo
Before it became the neighbourhood's living room, the Alameda was a lagoon, and then a promenade that smelt of its ditches.
Neighbourhoods, Trades and Popular Life in Seville: audio walks
How did people in the neighbourhoods earn a living, have fun and stand up for themselves?
6 walks with different starting points and stories. Compare their maps, stops and duration, then choose where to begin.
Explore these walksSeville's neighbourhoods offer history through trades and popular life. This theme asks how people earned a living, enjoyed themselves and defended their place in the city. The walks connect streets and protagonists, bringing the same curiosity to everyday spaces that visitors usually bring to the grand monuments and their more familiar stories.
In “Tobacco and Plaza de España”: The tobacco workers and the revolt over Philippine tobacco reveal work and its conflicts behind the route's grand buildings.
In “The Alameda and San Lorenzo”: Before it became the neighbourhood's living room, the Alameda was a lagoon, and then a promenade that smelt of its ditches.
In “Old town convents and legends”: You start where Bécquer rests and find out why it took him forty-three years to come home.
Choose from 6 independent walks in Seville. Open the one that interests you to see its map, stops and approximate duration before deciding. You don't need to do them all or follow this selection's order; each walk has its own starting and finishing points.
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Convents and Legends of the Northern Old Town
You start where Bécquer rests and find out why it took him forty-three years to come home.
The Macarena and the Feria
Opposite stands the Hospital de las Cinco Llagas, the Hospital of the Five Wounds; inside, the basilica from which Queipo de Llano's tomb was removed in 2022.
From the Tobacco Factory to the Plaza de España
The tobacco workers and the revolt over Philippine tobacco reveal work and its conflicts behind the route's grand buildings.
Triana: Castle, Potters and River
You go down the alley named after the Inquisition to the castle where the tribunal set up in 1481, and which floods and the centuries turned into a market.
Seafaring and Gitano Triana
On Pagés del Corro, the old Cava de los Gitanos: what an English traveller saw, a school everyone shared, corrales of a hundred neighbours, and the day of the lorries.
Seville, before you go
The centre offers few serious hills, but sunshine sets the pace. Alternate squares, lanes and a long break: Seville rewards a day with room to breathe.
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