We stopped in at the Century General Store for a light lunch on the way to Holyrood Palace. The café is tucked into a cool little triangular building with a turret. It’s a bright space with friendly staff.
Last Days in La Macarena
Our time in Seville is dwindling. Since our last post of photos from around La Macarena neighbourhood where we are staying we’ve become even more familiar with this quieter area full of low-key cafes, bars, art spaces, independent boutiques and markets
There’s an art school around the corner from the apartment called Centro de Arte Acción Directa. Through the door we can see sculptures in progress and people painting on easels.
More Seville Food & Drinks
This week we discovered a couple more good places to eat and drink near our place in Seville.
Bar Ajoblanco is a quirky little place that sells vinyl records, VHS tapes and Tex-Mexish food. We tried some tacos and enchiladas along with an order of nachos and guac.
Mercado de la Feria
We chose our apartment partly based on its proximity to Mercado de la Feria, the oldest market in Seville.
The market is located alongside the oldest church in Seville, the magnificently named Omnium Sanctorum, which dates to the 13th Century.
Alameda de Hércules
Very close to our apartment in La Macarena is the Alameda de Hércules or just La Alameda. It was built in 1574 and named after the eight rows of white poplar trees (álamos) in the centre.
There are two giant Roman pillars at each end of the Alameda. One pair is topped with statues of Julius Caesar and Hércules, who according to the legends, were the two founding fathers of Seville.
El Rinconcillo
If you research tapas bars in Seville, it won’t be long before El Rinconcillo is mentioned. It’s hard to skip a place that has been open since 1670 and is as old as the tradition of tapas itself.
The current owners — the De Rueda family — have operated the business from this same location since the 1850’s, with each new generation taking over from the previous.
Around Córdoba
Though the main purpose of our day trip to Córdoba was to visit the Mezquita, the city itself is also very scenic and we enjoyed wandering and seeing how it differs from Seville.
Córdoba has more hills than Seville, and more narrow winding streets, particularly in the Juderia, or old Jewish quarter. It reminded us a bit of the Alfama neighbourhood in Lisbon.
Around La Macarena
Our Airbnb apartment is in an area of Seville known as La Macarena.
The neighbourhood is most famed for its Basílica de la Macarena and a long stretch of the original murallas, or protective city walls that date to Roman times.
Bar Alfalfa
On Sunday we had lunch at Bar Alfalfa, a tiny nook of a tapas bar near Seville’s Plaza de la Alfalfa.
This neighbourhood is only 10 minutes by foot from our apartment, but it was the first time we’d wandered through.
Mercado de Triana
On the other side of the Guadalquivir river from our La Macarena neighbourhood in Seville is the historic Triana neighbourhood. One of the main attractions there is the Mercado de Triana (Triana Market).
The market is adjacent to the Triana Bridge and was built in the 1800’s atop the ruins of Castillo De San Jorge, the grisly headquarters of the Spanish Inquisition.
Wandering in Seville
Our flight from Dublin landed in Seville yesterday. Amidst the whirlwind of checking into our Airbnb, stocking up on basics at the local supermarket, and catching up on sleep and real life, we’ve also managed to head out to explore a few times.
Our wanders have lead to us becoming pleasantly disoriented on the city’s narrow, winding streets, but thankfully Google Maps on Josie’s phone has always brought us back home. Eventually.
Little Museum of Dublin
We took a tour of the Little Museum of Dublin, located in a Georgian building across from St. Stephen’s Green.
The museum is filled with artifacts donated by the people of Dublin.