Hospital de la Santa Caridad — iAnual (CC BY 3.0)

Ready-made walk · Seville

The Arenal: Seville's Old Riverside Quarter

6 stops · ~4 hr 35 min · 2.2 km

Riverside

Walk the district between the Cathedral and the Guadalquivir, where Seville once looked out to the river and its fleets. Pass the brick vaults of the medieval royal shipyard, the Baroque Hospital de la Santa Caridad, the Almohad Torre del Oro and the Maestranza bullring, then finish at a mid-century market and the city's great gallery of Spanish art.

The stops, in walking order

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Stop 1: Hospital de la Santa Caridad
~1 hr here
The Hospital de la Santa Caridad is a Roman Catholic charity hospital in Seville, built in the Baroque manner and still caring for elderly and sick people.
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Stop 2: Torre del Oro
~1 hr here
Torre del Oro is a dodecagonal military watchtower built to control access to Seville along the Guadalquivir.
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Stop 3: Reales Atarazanas
~1 hr here
Reales Atarazanas is a medieval shipyard, and these long brick vaults once served the Castilian crown as a naval base.
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Stop 4: Plaza de toros de la Maestranza
~3 min here
Plaza de toros de la Maestranza is Seville’s historic bullring, associated with the Real Maestranza de Caballería, a noble guild formed around cavalry training.
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Stop 5: Mercado del Arenal
~3 min here
Mercado del Arenal is a market building on Pastor y Landero Street, completed in 1947.
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Stop 6: Museo de Bellas Artes
~1 hr here
Museo de Bellas Artes is a major Seville gallery devoted to Spanish visual art, with works ranging from the medieval period into the early twentieth century.