Seville Free Walking Tour

Seville's historic center packs more monumental weight per square meter than almost anywhere in Spain, and this walk covers its spine: from Plaza del Salvador, where the parish church stands on the site of Seville's original Friday mosque, to the fortress-like walls of the Real Alcázar and the soaring Gothic bulk of the Cathedral, still crowned by the Giralda — the minaret the Christians were too impressed to tear down.

Your guide threads together nearly a thousand years of Moorish and Christian rule, explaining how a mosque became the world's largest Gothic cathedral, why the Alcázar's Mudéjar palace still houses Spanish royalty on state visits, and how the tangled lanes of Barrio Santa Cruz once formed Seville's Jewish quarter. It's the essential first walk for understanding the whole city.