Welcome to Seville

About the City

Seville, the capital of Andalusia, is certainly one of the most beloved places by visitors to Spain, located in the Southeast of Spain.
A provincial capital, seat of the government and parliament of the Comunidad Autonoma de Sevilla (Regional Government). It has more than 700,000 inhabitants, nearly half the population of the whole province.


The city of Seville is located on the plain of the Guadalquivir river, which crosses the city from North to South. The river can be navigated from Seville all the way to its outlet near Sanlucar de Barrameda, on the Atlantic coast. In the past the port of Seville played an important role in commerce between Spain and the Americas and remains today one of the most active river ports of the Iberian peninsula.


The Tartessians were the original founders of Hispalis. Next to this settlement, in 207 B.C., the Romans built Italica. It was the centre of their Western Mediterranean dominions for seven centuries until the Roman empire was overrun by Northern barbarians at the beginning of the 10th century.


The long Moorish occupation of the Iberian peninsula, from 711 AD to 1248 AD, left indelible traces in Seville as in all of Al-Andalus. La Giralda, the tower of an important mosque, is the most well-known of the remaining Islamic monuments.




In 1492 Seville played an important role in the discovery
and conquest of America.
The 17th century was a period of artistic splendour in Seville.
Painters such as Velazquez, Murillo and Valdes Leal, and sculptors like Martinez Montanes were born in Seville and left behind important works. The city also assumed an important role in world literature and was the birthplace of the myth of Don Juan.