Festivals in Seville City

The Feria of Sevilla is not to be missed.

Festivals in Seville City

Seville boasts two of the largest festive celebrations in the whole province ... even the whole of Spain.

Semana Santa

The first is Semana Santa (Easter Week) which is truly spectacular with extraordinary processions of masked penitents and carnival-style floats. People travel from across the country and around the world to witness this annual week-long event.

Feria de Abril

Next comes the Feria de Abril  or April Fair which possibly the largest annual fair in Andalucia. This is a week long party of drink, food, fino (link sherry) and flamenco.

Feria de Sevilla is an unmissable experience if you're visiting Seville at this time. © Michelle Chaplow

Seville Feria

Spring in Seville has a special atmosphere, garlanded with the sweet scent of orange blossom and jasmine, and a frisson of excited anticipation, as the city's two most important events take place… More →

Rocio pilgrimage

Other celebrations that take place in Seville include the Rocío pilgrimage, with the “Lunes de Rocío” (Rocío Monday) a traditional holiday (Pentacost Monday - end of May or first in June). The rociero groups marshall and leave Triana and other parts of Seville about a week before to march to Rocio. 

The El Rocio pilgrimage takes place over the weekend before Pentecost © Michelle Chaplow

El Rocio Pilgrimage

The El Rocío pilgrimage is the most famous in the region, attracting nearly a million people from across Andalucia and the entire country, and beyond. Every Andalucian city, town and village has… More →

Perhaps the most spectacular romeria is the one devoted to the Virgen del Rocío, popularly called "El Rocio" for short. © Joaquin Alarcon

Pilgrimages

Andalucia is famous for its pilgrimages or "romerías" - so called because pilgrims traditionally walked to Rome, and therefore became known as "romeros" - to popular shrines, around which fiestas… More →

Corpus Christi

Corpus Christi is also observed in Seville. There is traditionally several days of events organised by the Town Hall in the lead up to Corpus Christi. These include exhibitions and band concerts and the floral carpet in Plaza de San Francisco by Asociación Floral Corpus Christi de Ponteareas. In the morning (08.30 hrs) the main procession leaves the Cathedral for Avenida de la Constitución, Plaza de San Francisco, Sierpes, Cerrajería, Cuna, Plaza del Salvador, Villegas, Francos, Placentines, Argote de Molina, Alemanes, Cardenal Amigo Vallejo and Plaza Virgen de los Reyes.

Vírgen de los Reyes

Vírgen de los Reyes (Virgin of the Kings), falls on August 15th.

Music Festivals in Sevilla

Festival Interestelar Sevilla
Festival Interestelar Sevilla is a popular modern music festival that takes place each May at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo at the Isla Cartuja to the west of the centre of Seville. Billed as more than just a music festival with art, gastronomy and much more. More info >

Icónica Fest, Seville
Iconica is a summer Music festival, which covers all genres from pop, rock, and electronica to jazz and funk. Its setting is the spectacular Plaza de España in Maria Luisa park, with the artists performing in front of the illuminated building. Audience can choose from either standing or tiered seating. There is a light show before each concert, projected onto the façade of the building itself, and you can have a drink and a tapas at stalls set out along Avenida Isabel la Catolica, opposite the Plaza. More info >

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