Whatever time of year, in Seville you can always find a huge number of cultural and leisure activities to help you discover the city. At our centre we put on cultural, gastronomy-based, literary and outdoors activities in Seville and the surrounding areas.
Students will be accompanied by a member of our team for all activities. With the exception of the day trips, these will take place from Monday to Thursday in the afternoon. Participation in these activities is optional but there is a minimum number of students required for them to go ahead.
TOURS AND VISITS
Tour of the historic centre
Tour of churches
Mudejar Trail
Walk along the Guadalquivir River
Visit the Cartuja Monastery
Visit to the Andalusian Parliament
Visit to the Fine Arts museum
Tour of the historic centre
This route is appropriate for students who are in Seville for the first time. We’ll visit the most interesting places in the historic city centre and as such learn about the history of the area, the different civilizations that lived here, and the legacy their cultures have left behind.
Plaza de España, Plaza Nueva, the Cathedral, the Jewish neighbourhood of Santa Cruz and the Macarena neighbourhood are just some of the places that have influenced the history of Seville that we’ll visit on this trip.
⏱Duration: Two hours.
🎟️ Price: Free.
Tour of churches
In this tour we take a look at religious art and religious events as part of popular folklore in Seville.
⏱Duration: Two hours.
🎟️ Price: Free.
Mudejar Trail
From the walls of the Macarena, we’ll walk along San Luis street, to the Palace of the Marquis of Algaba and the Mudejar Art Centre. Mudejar is one of the most important reference points in Sevillian art, which is what makes it important to know about to gain a better understanding of our city.
⏱Duration: One hour and a half.
🎟️ Price: Free.
Walk along the Guadalquivir River
We’ll discover Seville from the riverbank and learn all about the Guadalquivir River and maritime Seville.
⏱Duration: One hour
🎟️ Price: Free.
Visit the Cartuja Monastery
The monastery is home to the Contemporary Andalusian Art Centre. It’s close to the historical city centre and features some impressive ceramic work and spacious gardens.
⏱Duration: One hour.
🎟️ Price: Free.
Visit to the Andalusian Parliament
This can be found in the old hospital of the five stigmata (Hospital de las Cinco Llagas). We’ll learn firsthand about the way the parliament works and the tasks that the members of parliament carry out.
⏱Duration: One hour.
🎟️ Price: Free.
Visit to the Fine Arts museum
We’ll take a look at the Sevillian baroque painting and Andalusian painting from the 20th century.
⏱Duration: One hour and a half.
🎟️ Price: free for members of the EU (€1.50 for everyone else).
Visit to the General Archive of the Indies
Museum of Arts and Popular Customs of Seville
Maestranza Bullring
Palace of Dueñas
Triana and Triana market
Flamenco Museum
Visit to the General Archive of the Indies
One of the most important events in history was the discovery of America. Part of the legacy left behind by this event are thousands of important documents and archives that Seville is lucky to host; they can be discovered up close in the Archive of the Indies.
⏱Duration: One hour.
🎟️ Price: Free.
Museum of Arts and Popular Customs of Seville
This activity is interesting because of the plethora of information it offers that can help students understand life today in Seville. It offers a very comprehensive view of life in Seville in the 19th and 20th century: culture, music, ceramics, agriculture, food, etc. Much of what can be seen here still happens today (meals, customs, local celebrations), meaning it provides students with a vision of the evolution of our city.
⏱Duration: One hour.
🎟️ Price: Free for members of the EU (€1.50 for everyone else).
Maestranza Bullring
We’ll visit the Maestranza to show students the traditional view of bullfighting and, of course, look at the controversy surrounding it today.
⏱Duration: One hour.
🎟️ Price: €10.
Palace of Dueñas
Here we’ll take a look at the Sevillian aristocracy, visiting a palace that belongs to the House of Alba.
⏱Duration: One hour.
🎟️ Price: €12.
Triana and Triana market
This visit to Triana will enable us to show our students that, even without leaving Seville, there are different takes on life. Triana has an identity of its own and so we’ll see, through this visit, a very personal way of living and understanding life.
⏱Duration: One hour and a half.
🎟️ Price: Free.
Flamenco Museum
One of the primary references to Spanish culture, and undoubtedly the most international, is flamenco. This is why we want our students to understand us a bit better through improving their knowledge of flamenco and the hold it has on our city. Our aim is to bring the students closer to flamenco by showing them its origins and musical traditions, the instruments and the different manifestations of it, and most importantly of all, just how varied it is.
⏱Duration: One hour.
🎟️ Price: €10.
TRIPS
Sanlucar de Barrameda
Cordoba
Cadiz
Granada
Huelva
Doñana National Park
Sanlucar de Barrameda
We’ll discover Andalusia’s wine culture. After visiting the mouth of the Guadalquivir and the castle of Santiago, we’ll go to one of the wineries in the area.
⏱Duration: One day.
🎟️ Price: €55.
Cordoba
This is a place where three cultures meet. Judaism, Islam and Christianity have influenced the history, gastronomy and architecture of Cordoba, and left their mark on the city. We’ll visit the old town and, of course, the Mosque.
⏱Duration: One day.
🎟️ Price: €70
Cadiz
Cadiz is the oldest city in the western world. We’ll visit the emblematic places – the old town, the Populo and La Viña neighbourhoods and Gran Falla Theatre. We’ll also get a closer look at the carnival which is considered a way of life for the people from Cadiz and one of the most popular events in Spain.
⏱Duration: One day.
🎟️ Price: €72
Granada
The Alhambra, the Generalife Gardens, San Nicolás viewpoint and the Albaicin neighbourhood are all places we’ve chosen to take you to share some of the charm and history of this beautiful city.
⏱Duration: one day.
🎟️ Price: €82
Huelva
We’ll go round the city centre and visit the Gran Teatro and Plaza de las Monjas. We’ll also see the archeological remains, one of which is a roman aqueduct from the 3rd century. The Mora Claros palace, the church of the Purísima Concepción and Carmen Market are other places we’ll visit, finishing at the Rio Tinto Pier.
⏱Duration: One day.
🎟️ Price: €55
Doñana National Park
We’ll begin the visit in El Rocio, wandering through the streets of this famous little village. Then we’ll go to the Coto Rey pine forest, the Matasgordas oak tree plantation, Hinojos marsh and we’ll visit the José A. Valverde visitor centre, one of the places with the highest concentration of birds in Doñana.
⏱Duration: One day.
🎟️ Price: €63
SHOWS AND CULTURAL EVENTS
Casa Pilatos
Visitors centre
Museum of Illusions
Flamenco show
A night in the gardens of the Alcazar palace
Theatre
Casa Pilatos
Visiting this Italian renaissance style palace, which perfectly combines Mudejar with the Romantic, will give us an insight into the stunning Sevillian architecture in the 16th century.
⏱Duration: one hour.
🎟️ Price: €12
Visitors centre
Here you can learn about the first trip around the world, which started and finished in Seville. The exhibition shows what the expedition was like and includes a visit to a lifesize replica of the boat used to make the journey, the Nao Victoria.
⏱Duration: One hour.
🎟️ Price: €4
Museum of Illusions
You can experience illusions caused by visual and sensory effects.
⏱Duration: One hour.
🎟️ Price €12.5
Flamenco show
Flamenco is one of the most distinctive examples of our culture. Attending this event, the student will see and hear for themselves the different disciplines that this art is made up of – dancing, singing, the instruments – whilst also enjoying a live performance.
⏱Duration: One hour.
🎟️ Price: €25
A night in the gardens of the Alcazar palace
An activity designed to give you the opportunity to listen to early music, classical music, flamenco, jazz and even world music in the gardens of the oldest European palace still in use.
⏱Duration: One hour.
🎟️ Price: €7
Theatre
Seville has lots to offer in terms of culture. In this activity we’ll see a play that will show us the history of Spain from another point of view.
⏱Duration: One hour.
🎟️ Price: €40
WORKSHOPS
Creative writing
Infomercial / Advertorial
Film screenings
Cooking classes
Ceramics
Creative writing
We propose different topics for the students to write about, enabling them to choose the most adequate vocabulary and ways of expressing themselves when writing their own text. In this way, we develop our students’ creativity based upon their own likes, dislikes and interests.
⏱Duration: Four hours.
🎟️ Price: Free.
Infomercial / Advertorial
The students will film a report about the main attractions of cities they have visited. They can include images of the places’ history, customs, gastronomy and any other aspects they want to discuss. They will also create tourist brochures that can be shared with future visitors to these cities.
⏱Duration: Five hours.
🎟️ Price: Free.
Film screenings
Viewing and discussion of Spanish and international films. This will help the students to learn more about important actors and directors in Spanish and international cinematography.
⏱Duration: Four hours (approx).
🎟️ Price: Free.
Cooking classes
Here we’ll learn to prepare typical dishes from Spain and Andalusia.
⏱Duration: Three hours.
🎟️ Price: €45.
Ceramics
The students will learn the main techniques of Sevillian ceramics and paint a mug that they can take with them as a memory of the workshop and their time in Seville.
⏱Duration: Two hours.
🎟️ Price: €30.
SPORT
Hiking
Kayaking
Cycling
Climbing
Rollerblading
Five-a-side football
Hiking
We’ll go on a group hike along a greenway in Gelves.
⏱Duration: Three hours.
🎟️ Price: Free.
Kayaking
We’ll take advantage of the fact that you can hire kayaks to use in the Guadalquivir to spend some time doing sport with our fellow students.
⏱Duration: And hour and a half.
🎟️ Price: €18
Cycling
We’ll go for a bike ride, beginning in Maria Luisa park and continuing along the riverside, potentially visiting either Alamillo park or The Birth of a New Man statue (el huevo de Colón).
⏱Duration: Two and a half hours.
🎟️ Price: €29
Climbing
We’ll make the most of the fact that Seville has the biggest climbing centre in Andalusia to dip our toes into this sport.
⏱Duration: One hour.
🎟️ Price: €25
Rollerblading
We’ll do a supervised trip on rollerblades along the bike lanes in Cartuja with an instructor.
⏱Duration: Two hours.
🎟️ Price: €32
Five-a-side football
The student will have the opportunity to play a game of five-a-side football and learn and practise the relevant Spanish whilst playing.
⏱Duration: One hour.
🎟️ Price: €24 (per group).
