Shade is the organising principle of Seville’s old quarter, and walking it you understand that as a design decision rather than a charming accident. The lanes in Santa Cruz are barely wider than a person, they turn constantly, and they stay dark and cool while the squares they open onto are blinding. Orange trees line most of it. A walk here covers little distance and still takes a while, because there is a corner every fifteen metres; the Seville virtual walking tour keeps that pace, and one of its four routes does the same streets after dark.
- Where do the Seville walks go?
- Through the Santa Cruz quarter and the streets around the cathedral, which is the densest and most enclosed part of the old city, and one of the four covers the same streets after dark. At the cathedral end the lanes give up and the space opens out; the difference is audible before it is visible.
- Is this Santa Cruz as it looks right now?
- Those are four separate afternoons, none of them this one. Each walk was filmed by somebody moving through the quarter on foot, so the shade in the lanes and the glare in the squares belong to the hour the footage was taken. Nothing on this page is a camera trained on Seville.
- Can I book a guided tour of Seville here?
- There is nothing to book and nobody to book it from: no guide, no group, no price, no hour to turn up at. The page plays four recorded walks with the sound of the street and nothing said over it. For a person to say why the quarter was built this way, book a free walking tour of Seville on GuruWalk.
- Can I use the Seville walk on a treadmill or walking pad?
- Yes. Put the Seville walk on a screen in front of your treadmill or walking pad, then choose 1×, 1.5× or 2× in the dock to match your pace. The recording starts muted; switch the sound on for the real street ambience. It is prerecorded viewing, not a measured workout route.
- Which other cities can I walk through from Seville?
- Use the Other walks links below to continue from Seville to Split, Valencia or Vienna without searching another site. The dock selector contains every city currently available in English, and each link opens a real page that you can share or revisit directly. The available city list differs by language.