WELCOME TO SEVILLE

PROGRAMS

• In Sevilla, our groups will enjoy a lot of options included in our programs. They will visit monuments as the Cathedral and the Giralda, the Alcazar, the neighborhoods of Santa Cruz and Triana, and other beautiful places. Also, they will be able to do thematic visits: the Flamenco, the Roman epoch..., and trips to Cordoba, Cadiz, etc.

• Our groups will be also able to carry out Spanish courses.

• On the right menu, you can check the main activities for the programs in this city.

REFERENCES

• Sevilla is the artistic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of Andalusia and of the province of Sevilla and it has around 700,000 inhabitants.
• The city was known from early Roman times as Hispalis. The nearby Roman city of Italica is well-preserved and gives an impression of how Hispalis may have looked in the later Roman period.
• The city was taken by the Moors in 712 and became an important centre in Muslim Andalusia. It remained under Muslim control until falling to Fernando III in 1248.
• Following the Reconquest, the city's development continued, with the construction of public buildings including churches, many in Mudejar style. Later, the city experienced another golden age of development brought about by wealth accumulating from the awarding of a monopoly of trade with the Spanish territories in the New World. After the silting up of the Guadalquivir, the city went into relative economic decline.
• The city's Cathedral was built from 1401–1519 after the Reconquest on the former site of the city's mosque. It is amongst the largest of all medieval and Gothic cathedrals, in terms of both area and volume. The Cathedral reused some columns and elements from the mosque, and, most famously, the Giralda, originally a minaret, was converted into a bell tower.
  
• The Alcazar facing the cathedral has developed from the city's old Moorish Palace; construction was begun in 1181 and continued for over 500 years, mainly in Mudejar style, but also in Renaissance.
  
• The Golden Tour was built in the Arab epoch as watchtower and defensive barrier on the river.
  
• The University of Sevilla is housed in the original site of the first tobacco factory in Europe.
• The Parque Maria Luisa was built for the 1929 Exposición Ibero-Americana World's Fair, and remains landscaped with attractive monuments and museums.