Triana district
Across the river, the ceramic workshops and the gypsy flamenco bars.
Duration
1 hr 30 min – 3 hrs
Best time
In the evening
Open
Every day
Entry price
Free
Triana is on the far side of the Guadalquivir, and long thought of itself as a separate town: a quarter of sailors, potters and gypsies, with its own parish and its own flamenco. Many of the crew of Magellan's expedition came from here.
The ceramics are still there, on Calle Antillano Campos and Calle Alfarería, in workshops that fire on site. Triana market, built on the ruins of the Inquisition castle, sits at the foot of the bridge; the flamenco bars of Calle Betis look across at the city opposite.
Getting there
Cross the Triana bridge from the centre, ten minutes on foot. The market is immediately to the right as you arrive.
Rules on site
The set-menu tablaos on Calle Betis sell flamenco to order: the neighbourhood peñas, less obvious, play for regulars and post their evenings on the door. The market closes in the early afternoon.
Other places in Seville
- Real AlcázarA Mudéjar palace with gilded wooden ceilings, and gardens of orange trees and pools.
- Cathedral and GiraldaThe largest Gothic cathedral in the world, and a former minaret you climb by ramps.
- Plaza de EspañaA two-hundred-metre half-circle of brick and azulejos, with a rowing canal.
- Metropol ParasolA hundred-and-fifty-metre undulating timber structure set down on an old square.