Seville (Sevilla) is a municipality in Andalusia, Spain, whose cathedral, Real Alcázar and Archive of the Indies UNESCO inscribed together as one World Heritage property in 1987. XTOUR maps places inside the municipality, among them those three, María Luisa Park, the Torre del Oro and Casa de Pilatos; Itálica, in Santiponce, is not part of it.
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Spain
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Church · Andalusia
Seville Cathedral, the Catedral de Santa María de la Sede, is the Catholic cathedral of Seville, Andalusia, built on the site of the city's Great Mosque, whose minaret is now its bell tower, the Giralda.
Historic site · Andalusia
The Archivo General de Indias is the state archive of documents on Spain's former territories in the Americas, housed in the Casa Lonja, a former merchants' exchange in Seville.
Viewpoint · Andalusia
Setas de Sevilla, the Metropol Parasol, is a timber structure over the Plaza de la Encarnación in Seville, Andalusia, with walkways and a viewpoint on its roof.
Gallery · Andalusia
The Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla is a fine-arts museum in Seville, Andalusia, housed in the former convent of La Merced Calzada, with a collection centred on Sevillian Baroque painting.
Fortress · Andalusia
The Torre del Oro is a 13th-century twelve-sided defensive watchtower on the left bank of the Guadalquivir in Seville, Andalusia, which now houses a maritime museum.
Historic site · Andalusia
The Real Alcázar of Seville is a royal palace complex with gardens in Seville, Andalusia, run by the Patronato del Real Alcázar y de la Casa Consistorial de Sevilla.
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UNESCO inscribed flamenco in 2010 as song, dance and guitar together, with Andalusia as its heartland but roots in Murcia and Extremadura too. Andalusia's Statute of Autonomy makes flamenco the region's own responsibility, and official sources describe peñas, tablaos, festivals and public theatres as the places it is performed.
Seville, Granada, Córdoba and Málaga are XTOUR's four Andalusian bases, and each is built around different monuments run by different bodies, with different booking rules. This guide sets out what Andalusia's official tourism site places in each city, who runs each anchor monument, which sites the sources place on a city's outskirts or out in its province, and what XTOUR does not know.
Caliphal, Taifa, Almohad, Nasrid, Mudéjar and morisco name different rulers, periods and makers, and the monuments' own pages use them precisely. This explainer shows how the managers of Córdoba's Mosque-Cathedral, the Alhambra, the Real Alcázar of Seville and the Aljafería in Zaragoza use each label, and why the English word 'Moorish' blurs them.
Spain's three best-known Roman World Heritage listings are very different things: a provincial capital's ensemble of monuments in Mérida, a single aqueduct within Segovia's old town, and the remains of Tarraco, capital of Hispania Citerior, under modern Tarragona. UNESCO listed them in 1993, 1985 and 2000, and each is run, or described, by a different body with its own rules for visiting.
Holy Week in Seville and Málaga is a set of processions organised by Catholic lay brotherhoods, each going out on its own day, not a single parade staged by the city. Each city has a coordinating body of brotherhoods that publishes the timetables and handles seats along the official route, and neither had published 2027 timetables on 9 October 2026.
The Real Alcázar and Seville Cathedral share one World Heritage listing, but they are two different monuments with two websites and two kinds of visit. This guide sets out what each one is, who runs it, what its own pages say about its visit, how the Giralda fits in, and where those pages disagree.
XTOUR plans Spain around city bases rather than regions: Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Granada, Córdoba, Valencia, Bilbao, San Sebastián, Santiago de Compostela, Palma and Málaga. This guide explains how Spain's autonomous communities relate to those bases, which community each base is in, and which XTOUR guide to read next for each.
Six words on Spanish heritage signs name kinds of building, not particular places: an alcázar is a fortified royal residence, an alcazaba a fortified enclosure, a mezquita a mosque, a seu a bishop's seat or cathedral, a lonja a merchants' exchange and a mirador a place to look out from. The meanings come from the Institut d'Estudis Catalans dictionary and the monuments' own operators, and two buildings that share a word in their names are often run by different bodies with different histories.
Tapas are small portions served with a drink, pintxos are the Basque Country's version, and whether one comes free depends on the city and the bar. Spain's national tourism board and San Sebastián's tourism office describe each custom in their own words, their pages disagree on some details, and XTOUR keeps their wording rather than generalising.
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