Fería de Abril
Sevilla's week-long fiesta is Andalucía at its celebratory best, with a vast fair of flamenco dance tents, and horsemen and women dressed to kill.

La Giralda
One of the city's principal landmarks is la Giralda - a colossal tower originally erected by the Moors as a mosque minaret and later converted into a bell tower for the world's largest Gothic cathedral. You get an incredible view from the top.

María Luisa Park
Beat the heat of the afternoon and steel yourself for a long night on the town with a nap in Sevilla's elegant María Luisa Park. There's plenty of cool shade to doze in, and the dreamy tone is accentuated by the trickle of fountains.

Bar Modesto
As the city which claims to have invented tapas, Sevilla knocks spots off the competition. A good place to pick up the trail is Bar Modesto , in the Santa Cruz district, which offers just about every tapas imaginable.

La Carbonería
Outside Feria week, flamenco music is hard to find in Sevilla, with most venues offering tacky "shows" instead of the real thing. La Carbonería is an exception - a quirky bar north of Santa Cruz church which hosts sessions by local gypsy musicians most night of the week.

La marcha
Nightlife in Sevilla, known for good reason as la marcha (marching), usually means an interminable tapas-bar crawl around Santa Cruz, followed by a session in a nightclub and a mass get-together at dawn in the Plaza San Salvador. Not for the fainthearted.