Parque de María Luisa & South of Centre
A glorious oasis of green, the 34-hectare Parque de María Luisa is the perfect place to escape the noise and heat of the city, with duck ponds, landscaped…
Must-see attractions in Sevilla Province
Parque de María Luisa & South of Centre
This bombastic plaza, designed by architect Aníbal González in the Parque de María Luisa, was the most extravagant of the building projects completed for…
Sevilla Province
Écija's history museum, housed in the 18th-century Palacio de Benamejí, is an authentic gem. It has rooms dedicated to the area's prehistory and…
Sevilla Province
The ruins of ancient Itálica, the first Roman city founded on the Iberian Peninsula, are extensive and, in parts, quite spectacular. Broad paved streets…
Sevilla Province
This ancient Roman necropolis is one of the most important of its kind in Andalucía. The site, which is slightly let down by a lack of signage, contains…
Colegiata de Santa María de la Asunción
Sevilla Province
Lording it over the town, this formidable Renaissance structure – two churches above a crypt – sits on the site of the town's medieval parish church. It…
Alcázar de la Puerta de Sevilla
Sevilla Province
Carmona's signature fortress is a formidable sight. Set atop the Puerta de Sevilla, the imposing main gate of the old town, it had already been standing…
Parque de María Luisa & South of Centre
As much a local landmark as an accommodation option, this striking, only-in-Seville hotel – conceived as the most luxurious in Europe when it was built in…
Parque de María Luisa & South of Centre
Now home to the University of Seville, this massive former tobacco factory – workplace of Bizet’s fictional heroine, Carmen – was built in the 18th…
Parque de María Luisa & South of Centre
Seville's archaeology museum, housed in a grandiose, neo-Renaissance palace at the southern end of the Parque de María Luisa, is a wonderful, oft…
Monasterio de San Isidoro del Campo
Sevilla Province
In the southern outskirts of Santiponce, this fortified Gothic monastery was founded in 1301 by Guzmán El Bueno (hero of the 1294 battle at Tarifa). Over…
Sevilla Province
The huge, 18th-century 'Palace of the Long Balconies' is Écija’s most iconic image. Its curved facade is a florid example of baroque exuberance with its…
Sevilla Province
Like several of Écija’s churches, this handsome iglesia was fashioned in the late 18th century after a 1755 earthquake damaged the pre-existing Gothic…
Parque de María Luisa & South of Centre
Housed in the Peruvian Pavilion from the 1929 Expo, complete with carved condors and llamas, this excellent, hands-on science museum has several permanent…
Sevilla Province
Looming over the western side of town, Constantina's ruined castle is worth the climb for the views alone. Below, you'll see the distinctive Mudéjar bell…
Sevilla Province
To the north of the town centre, Osuna’s 5000-capacity Plaza de Toros has been hosting bullfights since it was inaugurated in 1904, and still today stages…
Sevilla Province
One of Écija's finest church towers soars above the 18th-century Iglesia de Santa María, just off the central Plaza de España. Inspired by Seville's…
Prioral de Santa María de la Asunción
Sevilla Province
This splendid church was built mainly in the 15th and 16th centuries on the site of Carmona's former mosque. The Patio de los Naranjos, through which you…
Sevilla Province
A short, but in places steep, walk from the Puerta de Córdoba leads through the tough, sun-hardened plains to the Cueva de la Batida. This haunting spot,…
Sevilla Province
Carmona's history, from its origins as a Copper-Age settlement to the modern era, is charted at the city museum, housed in the aristocratic Palacio del…
Sevilla Province
With its two hexagonal towers and neo-classical decor, the result of an 18th-century facelift, this Roman gate originally controlled access to the city…
Sevilla Province
With its Gothic ribbed vaulting, carved Mudéjar-style ceiling and dazzling altarpiece – a shining example of Sevillan baroque – the Santa Clara convent…
Sevilla Province
This former monastery is now Osuna’s museum of religious art. Its church boasts an impressive baroque altarpiece, while the patio features some wonderful…
Sevilla Province
The Iglesia de San Juan sits a few blocks northeast of Plaza de España. Its main drawcard is its baroque tower, an intricate fairy-tale confection whose…
Sevilla Province
The stark, ruined fortress on the southeastern edge of Carmona was an Almohad fort that Pedro I turned into a country palace in the 13th century. It was…
Palacio del Marqués de La Gomera
Sevilla Province
Among the most ornate of Osuna's 18th-century mansions, the Palacio del Marqués de La Gomera features elaborate pillars on its pearly-white facade, with…
Sevilla Province
Housed in the 18th-century Palacio de los Hermanos Arjona y Cubas – along with the tourist office – this small municipal museum displays an eclectic mix…
Sevilla Province
West of the Puerta de Sevilla, the 15th-century Iglesia de San Pedro has a rich baroque interior and a tower modelled on Seville's Giralda. It's generally…
Sevilla Province
One of Osuna's most impressive mansions is the late-18th-century Palacio de los Cepeda, now home to the town's law courts. Its facade features a central…
Sevilla Province
Dating to 1773, the Cilla del Cabildo Colegial sports an extravagant facade centred on a columned portal with a sculpted representation of Seville’s…
Sevilla Province
Search out this viewing balcony on the eastern edge of the historic centre to admire fantastic views across the hazy brown vega (valley) below.
Museo de Artes y Costumbres Populares
Parque de María Luisa & South of Centre
Boasting an unforgettable setting in the hard-to-miss Pabellón Mudéjar, this low-key museum is dedicated to local arts and traditions. Exhibits include…
Parque de María Luisa & South of Centre
Appropriately situated by the river, close to the Parque de María Luisa, the modern Aquarium (opened in 2014) tells of the Guadalquivir’s importance in…
Sevilla Province
At the northeastern end of the old town, the Iglesia de Santiago is one of Carmona's oldest churches. Built in the 14th century, it has been much modified…
Sevilla Province
Just inside the old town beyond the Puerta de Sevilla, the Iglesia de San Bartolomé dates from the 15th century – although it owes much of its current…
Sevilla Province
Carmona's 17th-century town hall, originally a Jesuit convent, contains an impressive Roman mosaic depicting the head of the gorgon Medusa surrounded by…
Sevilla Province
The main feature of the 18th-century Palacio de Govantes y Herdara is its wooden portal framed by bizarrely twisted pillars encrusted with grapes and vine…
Sevilla Province
This 14th-century church, said to stand atop a former mosque, boasts a soaring Mudéjar tower and a grand Gothic portal in its plain white facade. It's…
Sevilla Province
This Roman amphitheatre from the 1st century BC sits on a parched, sun-drenched spot on the western edge of town. It's not open to visitors but you can…
Sevilla Province
This balcony on the northern flank of the old town commands views of the surrounding plains and the Cueva de la Batida, a series of caves set in a dun…
