From Hispalis to the 1929 Expo: Seville in Six Layers

Roman mosaics lie beneath a giant wooden parasol; a few streets away, a Baroque church hides the minaret of a ninth-century mosque, and by the river stand the Almohad tower and the building from which an empire was run. The walk ends at the grand square Seville built in 1929 to make peace with the Americas.

6 stops
2.8 km
2 h
Free

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The Torre del Oro on the bank of the Guadalquivir

The route

Stop by stop

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.

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What you’ll discover

From Hispalis to the 1929 Expo: Seville in Six Layers

Twenty centuries underfoot

From the Roman houses of the Antiquarium to the regionalist brickwork of the Plaza de España, every stop is a different layer of the city.

Gateway to the Indies

For two centuries trade with the Americas passed through here, as the old merchants' exchange, now the Archive of the Indies, and the Torre del Oro still show.