Seville is a city built for walking. The traffic-free cobbled streets, riverside promenades, parks and squares mean there are plenty of reference points to help you avoid getting lost. And, if your curiosity does take you far from where you started with tired feet and a desire to get back to your hotel quickly, you’ll always have access to half a dozen convenient forms of efficient and accessible public transport.
With e-scooters, a Metro line, the city’s tram and Sevici bicycle hire networks, here are some top tips to help you get around in Seville with ease.
Be sure to pack comfortable shoes because Seville’s historic core is a maze of winding streets. Most neighborhoods you’re likely to visit – including Barrio Santa Cruz, Centro, Triana, El Arenal, La Macarena, and Alameda de Hércules – are best explored on foot. In Barrio Santa Cruz, there are even occasions where a cobbled alley is only wide enough for one person to pass through at a time.
In general, the majority of city center streets in Spain’s fourth largest city are so narrow that they prohibit most traffic (you’ll frequently see scrape marks on buildings, where a driver has misjudged their margins). Public transport options are therefore limited to a tram and a few bus routes.
Walking isn’t an imperative means of exploration in central Seville, thanks to handy schemes such as the Sevici public bike share. Bikes can be rented using the Sevici app at the hundreds of docking stations throughout the city. Usage costs as little as €2.59 for one day, or €13.33 for one week. This covers all journeys of 30 minutes or less, with incremental price increases for longer rentals. Major roads around the city are shadowed by dedicated bicycle lanes, painted green. Two popular routes include the cycle lanes along the River Guadalquivir and the route out to Isla Mágica, through the old Expo ’92 site.
If cycling sounds like a little too much exertion, there are similar sharing programs for e-bikes (Lime), e-scooters (various, including Voi) and electric mopeds (YEGO). Moped rental starts at around €10 for around 30 minutes and includes helmets and insurance. Be aware that pedestrianized zones of the city are off-limits to two-wheeled transportation.
Public transit in Seville does a great job of connecting the outer areas of the city to its core, but there is little to connect the central neighborhoods to one another. One exception is the efficient, seven-stop tram line called the MetroCentro. It runs from Plaza Nueva along the Avenida de la Constitución, past the cathedral. In 2024, an extension as far as Nervión (close to Sevilla FC’s stadium) opened. There are plans to extend the line to Sevilla-Santa Justa train station. Operating
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