Seville, Spain walking tour
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- čas přidán 21. 09. 2018
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You will find in Seville all that a traveler can hope for: Pedestrian shopping streets and quiet alleys; flower-scented gardens, an ancient palace and immense cathedral, hundreds of historic sites; three thousand years of conflict and peace; thrilling evening entertainment; excellent museums; great food and drink, especially the tapas; and rewarding nearby attractions -- the list goes on until you run out of time.
Seville’s city center is divided in various parts: there’s Macarena in the north; El Arenal on the west side; the central shopping zone; and most exciting of all-Santa Cruz with the narrow pedestrian streets and lots of shopping and eating.
There are other districts or barrio in the city after all Seville is the fourth-largest city in Spain with the metropolitan population of about 1.5 million, but for the visitor that central area is your main destination.
Seville’s historic center is quite large-about a mile wide by 1.5 miles long, riddled with countless little alleys and important landmarks. You can discover it on foot if you are selective and seek out the particular attractions that most appeal to your interests. We suggest here an organized plan for doing just that, but it’s sometimes better to push the plan aside and just wander: certain neighborhoods, especially Santa Cruz, are perfect for the aimless stroll, and the downtown pedestrian zone of Seville is a shopper’s paradise.
So let's take a little walking tour in Santa Cruz.
An excellent central location to start your first walking tour is between the Cathedral and Alcazar palace in the Plaza del Triunfo. Many of the town’s main attractions can be easily reached from this central space, making it convenient for you to pick a direction, any direction, and go -- but with such an abundance of choices it can be a little tricky to decide where best to begin. Which way to turn depends on your priorities and the time of day, but no matter; there will be time in the next few days to fit everything in.
Walking is always the best way to see a place and especially when it's so pedestrian-friendly like Seville with so many lanes that are dedicated just to the pedestrian and other narrow lanes where you have very little traffic. You always want to use that walker's rule of thumb, that when you get to an intersection, look around and see which way looks most interesting. That's if you have the time to wander. And it can lead you from one place to the next with great satisfaction. On the other hand if you're in a hurry, you want to follow a little bit more of a specific plan and stick to it and perhaps follow a map.
Next we are going to take you through downtown pointing out some of the major plazas and the lovely pedestrian lanes. Starting out at Plaza Nueva, the most popular place in town.
This central area with the plaza and the streets leading to it is really the heart and the focal point of the city. Notice the broad street that is for pedestrians, bicycles, no cars allowed, and the tram.
Seville has a recently installed modern tram system that really is a great way to move people around. This neighborhood along Constitution Avenue has been entirely transformed by the tram service because now there are no cars going by, you don't have those exhaust fumes and noise, and so there's a lot more room for people throughout. You’ve got the sidewalk restaurants, you’ve got people walking, strolling along, lounging, people-watching, and the street is a major one that connects the cathedral with the City Hall Square, and then beyond, right into the pedestrian shopping zone where we will be taking you next.
Plaza Nueva is just one block over from the main pedestrian street of town which leads right into the shopping district -- Calle Sierpes, lined with the best shopping and liveliest atmosphere, especially in the late afternoon when the locals are out enjoying their traditional stroll.
Sierpes means “Street of the Serpent” perhaps due to its wiggly route and extreme length. It goes for nearly a mile and it's not just the one street it's an entire shopping zone, a fabric of side lanes and parallel streets that make for the most important shopping area of the city. There are a lot of beautiful old buildings here with tiles on the walls in that typical Andalusion style, so you want to be sure to look up a couple of floors to see the roof lines and the tiles up above and windows and balconies, maybe some flowerpots as you're walking along on these main shopping streets.
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Thank you for your invaluable insight Colin Robinson. “When you see an intersection, pick the street that looks most interesting” Great advice! ❤
Seville has unparalleled ambience. Such a beautiful city.
Malaga is very close
agree!
Beautiful Seville. I was blessed to visit this magnificent city last year 💜
Muy lindo video y la ciudad espectacular con esas callecitas tan pintorescas. Diez puntos!!
Very nice video, thanks for upload
Great video. Thank you from UK
Beautiful city..just need more trees..
Muy buen video gracias por compartir.
Thanks for sharing such every interesting video of Sevilla spain Spain has the most amazing beautiful designed architecture in the world and lots to see and delicious cuisine for everyone 💯👏👌
Glad you enjoyed it
Just got back from 🇪🇸 where we spent 3 days in Sevilla….it was fantastic along with the rest of Andalusia
Love you sevilia💘
What a great video, packed with helpful information. I've just subscribed, thank you Dennis. We will be visiting Seville in about a month and only have 4 days there so your information will help us to find the places to see. Then we leave for Barcelona, and I just noted that you also have a video on Barcelona, so ill watch that later. Thanks again.
Glad it was helpful. I have 23 Barcelona videos in my playlist bit.ly/2nxiQSk and 5 more with my guide Sandra, bit.ly/33MWC1K
Very nice, appreciate the narration. Many travel videos have irrelevant background music. This one doesn't.
I love Sevilla so much so I went there last week and go there at least once a year since 8 years. What a pity the shop "Spagnolo" doesn't exist anymore. I used to buy my clothes there.
I want to go back.
Greetings from Belgium
There is a Spagnolo in the new shopping centre "Lagoh". You just have to take the bus 35 near the University of Seville and you'll get there!
@@arianam9977 thank you very very much. I'll go there next time.
A great video,well done too with the street names.Have been there twice but must go once more before getting old.
La città più vivibile al mondo
Dan Salvador has changed so much! In 1998 it had no steel fence before the church so more steps. These were where the modern gypsies hung out. I wish I could remember the term in Spanish….
thsnks
Please Fiestas de Abril tours
Study its history and see who built the city over 1000 years ago. Its fascinating.
alltid som vanlight dennis is the best the wiking
BELLA ciao dà Paolo italia 😉
14:11 Oh my God wasn't kidding whe women were created !!!
Ha, ha, ha!!! Man, you have the map the wrong side up. All those areas mentioned at the beginning are positioned at a 90 degree right angle. Macarena should be out of the picture (past the Alameda de Hercules), El Arenal is down by the Plaza De Toros and so on. Other than the geographical hiccup, well done.
whoops, you are mostly correct, thanks for the comment, the map could have been better, but the video content is the main thing, glad you found that "well done."
I lived on the Alameda in 2004 back in the “drug dealers and whores” period. It was interesting.
Lamentable que solo se hayan referido a Sevilla en gastronomía y alguna iglesia. Se han perdido lo mejor, incluso, aparece en varios capítulos de Juego de Tronos, y ustedes se lo han perdido, o se ha obviado intencionadamente? saludos
Si, ahora lo mejor de Sevilla va ser que sale en una serie para frikies.
@@tximeleta35 Jjajajaja
Muchas maravillas de España fueron destruidas por la tropas de Napoleón.
Y otras guerras claro. Pero Napoleón fue terrible con España.
PERO AL FINAL FUE VENCIDO Y SALIO PITANDO, NAPOLEON UN GENOCIDA VIOLADOR.
Too crowded - like the subway.
Dallas, Texas is not crowded at all.
Anyone who goes to Seville and doesn't make an attempt to see Flamenco should not be going to Seville
Too much pic pact here be care
Have been watching videos of seville but no where I saw a black person amongst the tourists...
Wassikoudia Silue I am from Seville and I have seen black tourists, but they are few for obvious reasons. This is Europe, not the US. So among all the black people that live in Europe, how do you expect that a lot of them are in that moment travelling and in that exact city? It's just common sense.