Seville Tips & articles

Tips & articles

  1. Seville’s fine art of flamenco

    02 May 2012

    Seville’s flamenco roots run deep. If you don’t feel its rhythms singing through the winding streets and among the orange...

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  2. World’s best festivals: Semana Santa

    21 March 2012

    In an excerpt from Lonely Planet’s A Year of Festivals we look at the best ways to celebrate Semana Santa,...

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  3. Seville goes green

    04 January 2012

    Welcome to the new Seville, a cleaner, greener and more breathable metropolis, where bikes, pedestrians and streamlined electric trams roam....

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  4. Religious architecture of Islam

    28 February 2011

    The first mosques were modelled on the Prophet Mohammed’s house: there’s the open sahn (courtyard), the arcaded riwaq (portico), and...

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  5. World’s best festivals: Feria de Abril

    21 December 2010

    This is an excerpt from Lonely Planet’s A Year of Festivals.Location: El Real de la Feria, Seville, SpainDates...

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  6. Ask Lonely Planet: Where should I spend New Year’s Eve?

    01 December 2010

    Lonely Planet’s resident experts are always on hand to help with a travel dilemma.This question was posed to our panel...

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  7. Top sights of the Islamic world

    26 October 2010

    The Islamic world covers some of the greatest treasures of the natural world as well as some of the finest...

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  8. Seville: a zest for the fest

    10 October 2010

    Seville is Andalucía encapsulated. Proud men in black sombreros, passionate flamenco dancers, hooded penitents following a candlelit statue of the...

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  9. Architectural sights of Andalucía

    05 July 2010

    These recommendations are taken from our Andalucia guidebook, which is full of inspirational ideas & detailed coverage for foodies,...

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