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Favorite thing: Do not hire a car from Europcar.

We booked and prepaid for 10 days of a Mercedes car. We paid extra for after hours pick-up, and yet when we arrived in the early afternoon to that unspeakable town, they were closed and they nor the 800 line were picking up their phone.

We then had two choices. Spend 400 Euro to get a driver to bring us to Sevilla, where our hotel reservation was for the night, or wait 4 hours for a 4-hour long bus. We chose the latter.

We had 2 days to spend in Sevilla. One of those days was spent almost in entirety on the phone with customer service trying to work out the situation. In the end, we were told that we would be refunded. But a month later, after we returned home, we received a letter (after many inquiries) that we would not be receiving so much as a dime in refund.

Do NOT use Europcar. There is a recession, and they plan to get there money in any way possible!!

Fondest memory: El Ronconcillo ! ! ! What an amazing time! It almost made up for the Europcar disaster.

Favorite thing: Previous to our visit to Sevilla, we had spent two nights in Granada with Sue's sister, where we toured the world-famous Alhambra. We left there for Sevilla late on a Sunday morning and further slowed ourselves down by stopping off in Antequera along the way for a few hours. It was well worth it to enjoy a look at this small and picturesque city as well as the rugged and amazing limestone rock formations of the nearby El Torcal Nature Park. On the map, this diversion was about where the 'orange' road from Torremolinos (Malaga) comes up from the coast and meets our inland highway.

As can be seen on the terrain map, the countryside from there to Sevilla is in a wide river valley and is not nearly as dramatic as the coastal and Granada areas we had seen so far in the trip, but it was still interesting just to see the differences! After our two nights in Sevilla, we headed straight south for our next stop on the Atlantic Ocean coast, just across Bahia de Cadiz from the city of Cadiz. This city rose to prominance as a result of Sevilla's Guadalhivir River to the Atlantic gradually silting up - eventually forcing the development of an ocean port on the coast there instead of the previous direct shipping route to Sevilla.

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Favorite thing: Tourism Offices

* Plaza del Triunfo, 1 (main pic)
41004 Sevilla
- Tel.: (+34) 954 21 00 05 / 902 07 63 36
- Fax: (+34) 954 21 08 58
- E. mail: infoturismo@prodetur.es
- Internet: www.turismosevilla.org

*Aeropuerto/Airport de San Pablo. Autopista de San Pablo, s/n
41007 Sevilla
- Tel.: (+34) 954 44 91 28
- Fax: (+34) 954 44 91 29
- E. mail: otaesevilla@andalucia.org
- Internet: www.andalucia.org

*Estación de Santa Justa / Avd. Kansas City, s/n (railway station)
41007 Sevilla
- Tel.: (+34) 954 78 20 02
- Fax: (+34) 954 82 20 21
- E. mail: otjusta@andalucia.org
- Internet: www.andalucia.org

*Avda. Constitución, 21 B (second pic)
41001 Sevilla
- Tel.: (+34) 954 787 578
- Fax: (+34) 954 787 579
- E. mail: otsevilla@andalucia.org
- Internet: www.andalucia.org

*Plaza de San Francisco, s/n - Ayto. de Sevilla (Museo de la Logia) (City Hall)
41004 Sevilla
- Tel.: (+34) 954 59 01 88
- Fax: (+34) 954 59 01 88
- Internet: www.turismo.sevilla.org

*Calle (street) Arjona, 28. Naves del Barranco (third pic)
41001 Sevilla
- Tel.: (+34) 902 194 897
- Fax: (+34) 954 229 566
- E. mail: barranco.turismo@sevilla.org
- Internet: www.turismo.sevilla.org

* Some more websites:
- www.sevilla.org
- www.juntadendalucia.es
- www.turismosevilla.org

Favorite thing: Sevilla is extremely hot in Summer, so, I recommend to avoid those months. In Winter, the weather is quite mild (at least when I went, Jan. '09), however, heavy rains can show up all of a sudden (as they did during my stay), so, check the Weather before you go.

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Favorite thing: "Seville, is a pleasant city, famous for oranges and women."
Byron

"The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it. "
Christopher Columbus

"The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes. "
Hernando Cortes

"There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville. "
Hernando Cortes

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Favorite thing: With Seville having a Mediterranean climate, the area can get quite hot during the summer months with temperatures going as high as even 45C, although an average would be 26C. Spring is a pretty time to visit with the Jacaranda trees being in bloom and the temperatures are quite pleasant. The winters are quite mild and most of the rainfall happens during fall.

Favorite thing: There are not a lot of public pay toilets in Seville and cafés are probably the best place to try or department stores. Some restaurants and bars will request you to be a customer but others won’t mind. The odd street convenience I saw such as this one was very modern and it was on Plaza Nueva. The Spanish word for toilets is ‘Los Servicios’.

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Favorite thing: Christopher Columbus was not born in Sevilla, and he did not die here, but still he is a very important person in Sevilla's history. He was an Italian serving the Spanish king and queen and they were the ones granting him the ships to sail the Atlantic.

Christopher Columbus is buried in the Cathedral of Sevilla, but only after a long journey back and forth..... , but that is another story!