Our Seville series covers all the popular sights – the cathedral, the palaces, the museums – and also helps you ‘meet’ those who made their mark here, whether real (Christopher Columbus, Laurie Lee) or fictional (Carmen, Don Juan) And we cover all the top Seville themes too, from flamenco and bull-fighting to tapas and Moorish architecture.
Here is the background information, history and culture you need to fully understand the city. In short, all the research you’d do yourself if only you had the time!
There’s a podcast for each episode and we are adding more written information to each post as fast as we can. So, let’s go, or as the Spanish say ‘Vamos!’
SEVILLE : HISTORY & CULTURE

Episode 1: Introduction to Seville

Episode 2: The Alcazar – Seville’s Moorish Roots

Episode 3: Seville’s Cathedral, the Giralda and Santa Cruz

Episode 4: The Golden Age of Seville

Episode 5: Semana Santa and the Feria de Abril

Episode 6: The Parks and Palaces of Seville

Episode 7: Triana, Seville

Episode 8: Bullfighting in Seville

Episode 9: Seville’s flamenco Tradition

Episode 10: Art in Seville

Episode 11: Gastronomia in Seville

Episode 12: Travel Writers on Seville

Episode 13: Stories of Seville

Seville Extra: A Virtual Visit to Seville
MORE READING ABOUT Seville
4 useful websites for tourists
Visit Seville
Welcome to Seville
Andalucia: Seville
Seville City Guide
5 useful guidebooks
Seville City Plan by Michelin
Rough Guide to Andalucia
Eyewitness Guide to Seville and Andalucia
Lonely Planet Guide to Andalucia
A Guide to Seville: 5 Walking tours by P S Quick
6 books of travel writing
Spain by Jan Morris
As I walked out one Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee
As I walked out through Spain in Search of Laurie Lee by P D Murphy
Death and the Sun by Edward Lewine (‘A Matador’s Season in the Heart of Spain)
Andalus by Jason Webster (‘A Quest to Discover Spain’s Moorish History’)
A Handbook for Travellers in Spain by Richard Ford (published 1845!)
3 Literary anthologies
Andalucia, A Literary Guide for Travellers by Andrew and Suzanne Edwards
Spain, A Literary Companion by Jimmy Burns
Seville, Cordoba and Granada: A Cultural and Literary History by Elizabeth Nash
2 novels which feature Seville
A Rose for Winter by Laurie Lee
Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway
PODCASTS TO GET YOU STARTED



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