Free walking tours in Seville

1. Morning

   Essential Seville: from Triana to the Plaza de España

   Essentials · 2.7 km · 2 h

   1. Triana BridgeSpain's oldest iron bridge still marks, between its arches, the border between two cities with souls of their own.
   2. Maestranza BullringA bullring that took over a century to finish, and a gate every bullfighter dreams of being carried through.
   3. The Giralda and the CathedralAn Almohad minaret crowned with a Renaissance weathervane: the tower that sums up Seville.
   4. Royal AlcázarA thousand years of palaces behind a battlemented wall, and still the royal family's residence whenever it visits Seville.
   5. Plaza de Santa CruzA square born from the demolition of a church where Murillo was buried, and whose remains no one has ever found.
   6. Plaza de EspañaA bench for every province, four bridges, a boating canal and a «Star Wars» set: the square everyone wants to photograph.

2. Afternoon

   From Hispalis to the 1929 Expo: Seville in Six Layers

   History · 2.8 km · 2 h

   1. Setas de Sevilla and the AntiquariumA 21st-century wooden structure built, quite literally, on top of Roman Seville.
   2. Church of El SalvadorA Baroque church raised over Seville's first great mosque, whose minaret still stands inside the bell tower.
   3. Seville City HallA façade carved like a book in stone, where Hercules and Julius Caesar boast of founding the city.
   4. General Archive of the IndiesAn exchange built to get merchants out of the cathedral that ended up holding the written memory of an empire.
   5. Torre del OroAn Almohad tower that guarded the river, anchored a chain and never stored a single bar of American gold.
   6. Plaza de EspañaThe grand stage Seville built for the 1929 Ibero-American Exposition, which took fifteen years to finish.

3. Early evening

   The Seville of King Peter, Susona and Mañara

   Mysteries & legends · 2.2 km · 1 h 45 min

   1. Convent of Santa InésThe house founded by María Coronel, the noblewoman who, legend says, disfigured her own face to escape a king.
   2. Calle Cabeza del Rey Don PedroA king promised to display the culprit's head at the scene of the crime. And he kept his word: he put up his own.
   3. Casa de PilatosA Sevillian palace that, according to tradition, copied the house of Pontius Pilate in Jerusalem.
   4. Calle SusonaA tile panel recalls the young woman who, legend says, betrayed her own father.
   5. Cathedral: Columbus's bones and the lizardBehind this door lie the remains of Christopher Columbus… or so the DNA says, because another city claims them too.
   6. Hospital de la CaridadThe hospital founded by a repentant nobleman who asked to be buried under the doorway so that everyone would walk over him.

Where to eat. Try Spinach with chickpeas at El Rinconcillo.