Tour of Barrio de Santa Cruz: Explore 2000 Years of History in Seville's Heart
4.9
102 Ratings
Sevilla
Embark on a captivating tour of Barrio de Santa Cruz in Seville, where you'll uncover 2000 years of history through its authentic streets and fascinating stories.
Duration:
2 hours
Cancellation:
1 day
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Highlights
- Plaza de la Virgen de los Reyes - Meeting point
- Plaza Patio de Banderas - Introduction to the entire Barrio de Santa Cruz and the Jewish quarter
- Calle Susona - Site Explanation
- Hospital de los Venerables - Site Explanation
- Plaza de Santa Cruz - Site Explanation
- Iglesia de Santa Maria la Blanca - Site Explanation
What's Included
- All applicable fees and taxes included
What's Not Included
- Private transportation
- Snacks
Additional Information
We journey through 2000 years of history, meandering through the most genuine streets of the city—Seville’s lifeblood. All civilizations that touched these roads left their mark in the first 1500 years. Explore the Jewish Quarter, cordoned off by walls and the various synagogues that were subsequently converted to Catholicism. Experience their narratives of love, existence, demise, pain and hope firsthand. These narrow lanes have a wealth of tales to share at locations like:
-Patio de Banderas.
-Plaza Susona
-Water Street
-Life Street
-Alcázares
-Jewry
-Venerable Square
-Plaza Alfaro
-Plaza de Santa Cruz
-Fígaro, the barber of Seville
amongst others…
Location
Plaza Virgen de los Reyes
We are in Plaza Virgen de los Reyes, next to La Giralda, next to the white umbrellas. The guide will be waiting for you at our meeting point.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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(102 Ratings)
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Smacka21
Mar 30, 2024
Great way to orient yourselves and learn about the history of the various monuments - Manu was a terrific guide for our free walking tour. In spite of the rain we all hung in there and learnt a lot about the history of the various monuments we walked past. Manu answered all our questions.
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Julie_c
Feb 18, 2024
Fascinating tour about a part of Seville you otherwise might not understand - Amazing tour! Absolutely loved it! Our guide, Patricia, was knowledgeable, and very thoughtful about how she presented what can be very sad information. She took lots of time to answer all our questions one of my favorite tours so far.!
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Annen877
Jan 18, 2024
A must for any solo traveller - Had a great tour guides by Lou! We got great insight into the history of Sevilla and a lot great tips on what to do in the city. Thanks for an amazing experience 😊
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Brunasantos22
Oct 14, 2023
Amazing experience - I highly recommend this tour, walking around the place without a guide wouldn't be the same. Our guide, Esther, was incredible, she went on and on about the history of the place, showing us all the sites and little things we found along the way, the small details.
One of the best tours I've done.
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Lian_s
Sep 27, 2023
Exploring Santa Cruz - Our guide Esther was interesting and knowledgeable about the history of the Jewish quarter and Santa Cruz area. I felt we learnt more than if we just wandered around by ourselves, plus she also gave us some handy restaurant tips. It was a pleasant evening walking tour with a fairly small group amd would highly recommend
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Melka_b
Aug 31, 2023
great guide - Hi
Manu our guide was great and super knowledgeable very sweet and polite and easy to understand
he is an amazing historian! really enjoyed the tour and learned a lot of history ! thanks Manu
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Senieve
Aug 31, 2023
Incredible Tour guide! - We had Manu as our tour guide.
I’ve rarely had a tour guide that was so professional, and so deeply knowledgable about the history of the place. He was also extremely respectful, honest and dealt with the story with integrity. It was the best Jewish tour. I’ve done in Spain so far. Highly recommend it to everyone. This was a wonderful wonderful experience that everybody should do.
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Pascal_s
Aug 31, 2023
Amazing , thank you - Manu was the best historian ever , we appreciated very much , absolutely very well done thank you very much
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Daniel_g
Mar 19, 2024
interesting area to see but tour very specific - The area was very interesting to see but our guide gave us too many informations on very specific aspects of some parts of this area,legends,poets,so it didn t cover the life of jewish citizens in this city...a deception and also we would like to learn more about their way of living over more than 800 years
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Defraser12
Oct 12, 2023
Tour never actually happened. - The most memorable part of this walking tour was that it didn’t happen! Because only us two were booked onto the tour, this apparently meant the tour wasn’t viable. We were only told this when we actually arrived at the tour starting point. This is shocking.
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