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Roots Earth in Seville: audio stories about 47 places

Roots Earth has audio stories about 47 places in Seville, Spain, in Europe. The Seville stories are in all seven Roots Earth languages: English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The app needs no account: open Seville, pick a place on the city's map of places and play. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection. The stories are written by local people.

The 47 places are listed below in the order the app shows them, and again further down with their coordinates. The lists were taken from the Roots Earth catalogue on 15 September 2026.

Published 16 September 2026. Markdown: seville.md

The 47 places in Seville with audio stories

In the order the app shows them.

  1. Seville Cathedral
  2. La Giralda
  3. Royal Alcázar of Seville
  4. General Archive of the Indies
  5. Plaza de España
  6. María Luisa Park
  7. Torre del Oro
  8. Metropol Parasol (Las Setas)
  9. Plaza de Toros de la Maestranza
  10. Casa de Pilatos
  11. Barrio de Santa Cruz
  12. Hospital de los Venerables
  13. Museum of Fine Arts of Seville
  14. Seville City Hall
  15. Plaza Nueva
  16. Church of the Saviour
  17. Palacio de las Dueñas
  18. Torre Sevilla (Pelli Tower)
  19. Isla Mágica
  20. Pavilion of Navigation
  21. Monastery of La Cartuja
  22. Andalusian Centre of Contemporary Art
  23. Italica
  24. Triana Bridge (Isabel II)
  25. Triana
  26. Capilla del Carmen (Triana)
  27. Palace of San Telmo
  28. University of Seville (Royal Tobacco Factory)
  29. Hospital de la Caridad
  30. Torre de Don Fadrique
  31. Walls of the Macarena
  32. Basilica of La Macarena
  33. Triana Market
  34. Feria Street Market
  35. Alameda de Hércules
  36. Calle Betis
  37. Plaza del Altozano
  38. Calle San Luis
  39. Church of San Luis de los Franceses
  40. Convent of Santa Paula
  41. Plaza de San Lorenzo (Gran Poder)
  42. Macarena District
  43. Murillo Gardens
  44. Plaza de Santa Cruz
  45. Muelle de las Delicias / Aquarium
  46. San Fernando Cemetery
  47. Barqueta & Alamillo Bridges

Is there an audio guide for Seville Cathedral?

Yes. Seville Cathedral has its audio stories in the Roots Earth app: a short introduction and a deeper story, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian.

It is place 1 of the 47 Seville places in the app, at 37.38583, -5.99342. Every one of the other 46 places in the list above has the same two stories.

Roots Earth is not a guided tour: you choose the place on the city's map of places and play its story yourself.

How to use Roots Earth in Seville

Open Roots Earth and choose Seville. The city has its own map of places with all 47 of them on it. Tap the place you are standing in front of, or any other, and play its short introduction or its deeper story. You decide what to listen to and in which order.

You can listen in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian, and there is no account. Download a city's audio, then it plays without a connection.

In full

All 47 places in Seville, in the app's order, with their coordinates.

All 47 places in Seville, with coordinates

Every place below has a short introduction and a deeper story in the Roots Earth app, in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch and Albanian. The names, the coordinates (latitude, longitude) and the one line descriptions are the app's own catalogue values of 15 September 2026; a place without a line here has none that this page can print.

1. Seville Cathedral

Coordinates
37.38583, -5.99342
In one line
The largest Gothic cathedral in the world, begun in 1401 and completed in 1519 on the footprint of a great Almohad mosque. Inside rest the tomb of Christopher Columbus and a gilded altarpiece carved over more than a century, beneath vaults that crown the heart of Seville.

2. La Giralda

Coordinates
37.38614, -5.99261
In one line
The bell tower of Seville Cathedral, born as the minaret of the city's Almohad mosque and completed in 1198. Its lower brickwork is purely Islamic, while a Renaissance belfry crowned by a bronze weathervane was added in the 1500s, fusing two civilizations in one landmark.

3. Royal Alcázar of Seville

Coordinates
37.38389, -5.99056
In one line
A royal palace begun by Muslim rulers in the 900s and rebuilt by Christian kings, still used by Spain's royal family today. Its Mudéjar courtyards, gilded halls, and layered gardens blend Islamic and European craft across more than a thousand years.

4. General Archive of the Indies

Coordinates
37.38583, -5.9925
In one line
A Renaissance merchants' exchange designed by Juan de Herrera that since 1785 has held the archive of Spain's American empire. Its shelves carry roughly nine kilometers of documents, around 80 million pages, including papers tied to Columbus and the conquest of the New World.

5. Plaza de España

Coordinates
37.37722, -5.98722
In one line
A vast semicircular plaza built by architect Aníbal González for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929. A curved palace wraps around a canal crossed by four bridges, lined with tiled alcoves honoring the provinces of Spain, and counts among the city's most filmed landmarks.

6. María Luisa Park

Coordinates
37.37306, -5.98889
In one line
Seville's great public park, donated to the city in 1893 from the gardens of the Palacio de San Telmo and redesigned by Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier for the 1929 exposition. Its shaded paths, tiled fountains, and monuments make it the green heart of the city.

7. Torre del Oro

Coordinates
37.3825, -5.99639
In one line
A twelve-sided watchtower on the bank of the Guadalquivir, built by the Almohad rulers around 1220 to guard the harbor with a great chain across the river. Once a prison and a chapel, the Tower of Gold now houses a naval museum.

8. Metropol Parasol (Las Setas)

Coordinates
37.39306, -5.99222
In one line
A vast undulating canopy of laminated timber rising over Plaza de la Encarnación, designed by Jürgen Mayer H and opened in 2011. Nicknamed Las Setas, the mushrooms, it shelters a market, Roman ruins and a rooftop walkway.

9. Plaza de Toros de la Maestranza

Coordinates
37.38639, -5.99917
In one line
Seville's white and ochre bullring beside the Guadalquivir, built in stages between 1761 and 1881 for the noble cavalry guild Real Maestranza de Caballería. One of Spain's oldest arenas, it seats around twelve thousand and houses a bullfighting museum.

10. Casa de Pilatos

Coordinates
37.39, -5.9875
In one line
An aristocratic Sevillian palace begun in 1483, blending Mudéjar tilework, Gothic detail and Italian Renaissance design. Named after a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, it remains the residence of the Dukes of Medinaceli and a prototype of the Andalusian noble house.

11. Barrio de Santa Cruz

Coordinates
37.38528, -5.98889
In one line
Seville's old Jewish quarter, a maze of narrow whitewashed lanes and small flower-filled plazas beside the cathedral and Alcázar. Once home to the city's medieval Jewish community, it is now one of the most atmospheric corners of the old town.

12. Hospital de los Venerables

Coordinates
37.385, -5.99
In one line
A late seventeenth-century Baroque complex in Barrio Santa Cruz, built between 1675 and 1697 as a home for elderly priests. Now a cultural centre, it is known for its sunken-fountain patio, frescoed church and paintings by Valdés Leal and Velázquez.

13. Museum of Fine Arts of Seville

Coordinates
37.39306, -5.9975
In one line
Seville's great painting museum, founded in 1835 in the former Convent of La Merced. Set around tiled cloisters, it holds one of Spain's finest collections of Golden Age art, rich in works by Murillo, Zurbarán and Valdés Leal.

14. Seville City Hall

Coordinates
37.38917, -5.99417
In one line
Seville's town hall, begun in 1527 by architect Diego de Riaño. Its richly carved Plateresque east front faces Plaza de San Francisco, while a sober nineteenth-century Neoclassical façade opens onto Plaza Nueva. It remains the seat of the city council.

15. Plaza Nueva

Coordinates
37.38861, -5.99583
In one line
A broad, palm-lined civic square laid out in the 1850s on the site of a demolished Franciscan convent. Its bronze equestrian statue of Ferdinand the Third faces the city hall, marking the modern heart of central Seville.

16. Church of the Saviour

Coordinates
37.39, -5.99361
In one line
Seville's second-largest church, a grand Baroque temple built between 1674 and 1712 on the site of the city's oldest great mosque. Its red facade, soaring altarpieces and revered Holy Week sculptures make it one of the city's richest religious interiors.

17. Palacio de las Dueñas

Coordinates
37.39667, -5.98944
In one line
A late-fifteenth-century Sevillian palace owned by the House of Alba, blending Gothic, Mudejar and Renaissance styles around leafy patios and fountains. Birthplace of the poet Antonio Machado, it opened to the public in 2016 with its tapestries and paintings on view.

18. Torre Sevilla (Pelli Tower)

Coordinates
37.40139, -6.005
In one line
Seville's tallest building, an elliptical office tower of around 180 metres completed in 2015 to a design by architect Cesar Pelli. Rising on the former Expo 1992 grounds, it stirred debate over its impact on the historic skyline.

19. Isla Mágica

Coordinates
37.40694, -6.00528
In one line
A theme park that opened in 1997 on part of the former Expo 1992 grounds, themed around sixteenth-century Spanish voyages to the Americas. It spreads across roughly 36 hectares around a lake, with roller coasters, water rides and an attached water park.

20. Pavilion of Navigation

Coordinates
37.40361, -6.0075
In one line
A pavilion built for Expo 1992 on the Guadalquivir riverbank, designed by architect Guillermo Vazquez Consuegra. Reopened in 2012 as a navigation museum, it explores seafaring history and is paired with a riverside viewing tower of around 60 metres.

21. Monastery of La Cartuja

Coordinates
37.4075, -6.00417
In one line
A former Carthusian monastery founded in the fifteenth century, later a famous ceramics factory and now home to a contemporary art museum. Christopher Columbus once stayed here, and its brick bottle kilns recall its industrial past on the river island of La Cartuja.

22. Andalusian Centre of Contemporary Art

Coordinates
37.40806, -6.00444
In one line
Andalusia's regional museum of contemporary art, housed in a former Carthusian monastery on La Cartuja island. It pairs cloisters, chapels, and brick kilns with bold modern works by Spanish and international artists.

23. Italica

Coordinates
37.43972, -6.04556
In one line
One of the earliest Roman settlements in Spain, founded in 206 BC near modern Santiponce. Birthplace of the emperors Trajan and Hadrian, it preserves a vast amphitheatre, grand mansions, and detailed floor mosaics.

24. Triana Bridge (Isabel II)

Coordinates
37.38583, -6.0025
In one line
Seville's first permanent bridge, completed in 1852, spanning the Guadalquivir to link the old city with Triana. Its iron arches replaced a centuries-old pontoon crossing and remain a beloved symbol of the city.

25. Triana

Coordinates
37.38389, -6.00972
In one line
A historic riverside quarter of Seville on the west bank of the Guadalquivir, famed for its ceramics, flamenco, and seafaring past. Its residents hold a strong local identity and consider the barrio distinct from the rest of the city.

26. Capilla del Carmen (Triana)

Coordinates
37.38556, -6.00306
In one line
A small Neo-Mudejar chapel by architect Aníbal González, built in 1928 at the Triana end of the Isabel II Bridge. Dedicated to the Virgin of Carmen, it forms a beloved landmark of the neighborhood.

27. Palace of San Telmo

Coordinates
37.38028, -5.99389
In one line
A grand Sevillian Baroque palace begun in 1682 as a naval training school for orphaned boys. Famed for its exuberant carved portal, it now serves as the seat of the Andalusian regional government.

28. University of Seville (Royal Tobacco Factory)

Coordinates
37.38, -5.99
In one line
A monumental 18th-century stone building, once Europe's grandest tobacco factory and the workplace of thousands of cigarreras. Immortalized in the opera Carmen, it has housed the University of Seville since 1950.

29. Hospital de la Caridad

Coordinates
37.38528, -5.99694
In one line
A Roman Catholic charity hospital founded in 1674 by the nobleman Miguel de Mañara, still caring for the elderly and infirm. Its baroque church holds celebrated paintings by Murillo and Valdés Leal and one of Seville's richest sculpted altarpieces.

30. Torre de Don Fadrique

Coordinates
37.39917, -5.99528
In one line
A square stone tower built in 1252 for the prince Fadrique, son of King Ferdinand the Third. Standing within the former Convent of Santa Clara, it blends Romanesque and Gothic features and is among the oldest civil buildings in Seville.

31. Walls of the Macarena

Coordinates
37.40167, -5.98944
In one line
The best-preserved stretch of Seville's medieval defensive walls, raised largely in the Almoravid and Almohad periods. Built of rammed earth with square towers, it runs between the Macarena gate and the Córdoba gate, recalling the city's vanished ring of fortifications.

32. Basilica of La Macarena

Coordinates
37.40194, -5.98944
In one line
A neo-baroque church built between 1941 and 1949 to house the Virgin of Hope of La Macarena, Seville's most venerated image. The brotherhood here leads the city's famous Good Friday dawn procession during Holy Week.

33. Triana Market

Coordinates
37.38556, -6.0025
In one line
Triana's covered food market sits beside the river on the site of the old Castle of Saint George, once the Inquisition's headquarters. Locals shop here for fish, produce, and ham among stalls, tapas bars, and the ruins preserved in its basement.

34. Feria Street Market

Coordinates
37.40139, -5.99
In one line
The oldest market in Seville, on Calle Feria in the Macarena district. Its covered hall sells fresh fish and produce around a popular tapas bar, while every Thursday the surrounding street fills with the city's historic El Jueves flea market.

35. Alameda de Hércules

Coordinates
37.40028, -5.99417
In one line
A long tree-lined public square created in 1574 on drained marshland, often called one of the oldest public promenades in Europe. Roman columns topped with Hercules and Julius Caesar stand at one end, and today it is the heart of Seville's bohemian nightlife.

36. Calle Betis

Coordinates
37.38222, -6.0025
In one line
Riverfront street in Triana facing central Seville across the Guadalquivir. Its painted houses, terraces, and late-night bars draw locals for sunset views, and its name recalls Baetis, the Roman word for the river.

37. Plaza del Altozano

Coordinates
37.38528, -6.00194
In one line
The main square of Triana, at the western foot of the Isabel the Second bridge. Long the gateway between the neighbourhood and central Seville, it holds monuments to the bullfighter Juan Belmonte and to flamenco, and remains a busy local meeting point.

38. Calle San Luis

Coordinates
37.4, -5.98889
In one line
Long, straight street running through the old San Gil and Macarena quarters of northern Seville. It links several historic churches and the Macarena gate, and serves as a lively local artery of bars, neighbourhood shops, and Holy Week processions.

39. Church of San Luis de los Franceses

Coordinates
37.4, -5.98861
In one line
Baroque church on Calle San Luis built by the Jesuits between 1699 and 1731 to designs by Leonardo de Figueroa. Dedicated to Louis the Ninth of France, it has a Greek-cross plan, a soaring dome, and an exuberant interior of twisted columns and frescoes.

40. Convent of Santa Paula

Coordinates
37.39556, -5.98472
In one line
Working convent of Hieronymite nuns founded in 1473 in northern Seville. It is known for its Gothic and Mudejar architecture, a tiled Renaissance portal from 1504, a small museum, and the homemade jams and sweets the nuns still make and sell.

41. Plaza de San Lorenzo (Gran Poder)

Coordinates
37.39556, -5.99694
In one line
Square in central Seville beside the parish church of San Lorenzo and the modern basilica of Jesús del Gran Poder. The basilica houses a revered 1620 sculpture of Christ by Juan de Mesa, drawing constant devotion from Sevillanos.

42. Macarena District

Coordinates
37.40444, -5.98889
In one line
Working-class district in the north of Seville, home to the longest surviving stretch of the medieval Almohad walls, the Macarena gate, and the basilica of the Esperanza Macarena, whose Good Friday procession is among the most fervent in Spain.

43. Murillo Gardens

Coordinates
37.38389, -5.98722
In one line
A shady public garden laid out from 1911 on the former orchards of the Alcazar, designed by Juan Talavera y Heredia and named for the painter Bartolome Esteban Murillo. It shelters tiled paths, palms and a tall monument to Christopher Columbus beside Santa Cruz.

44. Plaza de Santa Cruz

Coordinates
37.385, -5.98861
In one line
A small square at the heart of Seville's old Jewish quarter, on the site of a parish church demolished during the Napoleonic occupation. Orange trees surround a wrought-iron cross, the Cruz de la Cerrajeria, and the painter Murillo lies buried somewhere beneath the ground.

45. Muelle de las Delicias / Aquarium

Coordinates
37.36889, -6.00056
In one line
A riverside wharf on the Guadalquivir south of the old town, part of Spain's only major inland port. Once the dock through which goods reached the city, it now serves cruise ships and hosts walkers, joggers and cyclists along its tree-lined promenade beside the water.

46. San Fernando Cemetery

Coordinates
37.41611, -5.97417
In one line
Seville's main municipal cemetery, completed in 1852 north of the city and laid out along a long cypress-lined avenue. It holds the tombs of famous bullfighters and flamenco singers, elaborate family pantheons, and the sculptor Antonio Susillo's celebrated Cristo de las Mieles.

47. Barqueta & Alamillo Bridges

Coordinates
37.40806, -5.99611
In one line
Two striking bridges built for the 1992 World's Fair to reach La Cartuja island. The Barqueta is a white steel tied-arch by Juan Jose Arenas and Marcos Pantaleon, while the nearby Alamillo is Santiago Calatrava's cable-stayed span, held by a single inclined mast without back-stays.

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