- PRESS KIT 2017 - CONTACT INFORMATION Seville Tourism Board (Central offices) Bajos del Paseo Marqués de Contadero s/n (41001) Sevilla Tel. +34 955471216 Tourism Information Office Costurero de la Reina Paseo de las Delicias, 9 (41013) Sevilla Tel.+34 954234465
[email protected] www.visitasevilla.es www.facebook.com/Sevilla www.visitasevilla.es/blog www.visitasevilla.es/theblog www.twitter.com/sevillaciudad www.twitter.com/visitseville www.youtube.com/user/TurismoSevillaTV www.flickr.com/photos/turismosevilla TABLE OF CONTENTS Seville Quality destination How to get there Accommodation Monumental heritage Gastronomy Flamenco Fiestas Culture The Year of Murillo The 25th Anniversary of the 1992 Expo Tourist Itineraries Unique visits Family Shopping Seville by bicycle Linguistic tourism Cruise tourism Sports tourism Conferences and Events RENFE Spain Pass Novelties and new products Useful information The city has also inspired the most operas over the 1. SEVILLE centuries: 150 compositions, some as universal as “Carme”, “Don Giovanni”, and “The Barber of Seville”. Seville is an important tourist In addition to preserving the enormous legacy of its past, Seville is a city that looks to the future and evolves. destination in southern Europe. For proof of this look no further than the contemporary Located on the southeast of the Iberian architecture from the 1992 Universal Exposition, or new buildings, such as “Las Setas” in the Plaza de la Peninsula, with a population of 700,000 Encarnación, the new Conference and Exhibition Centre, inhabitants, it is the capital of the the Sevilla Tower, the bicycle lane network... autonomous community of Andalucía. With a rich and extensive history resulting from the different civilizations that have settled on this very fertile territory (Phoenicians, Romans, Visigoths, and Arabs) located between the marshland and the river delta, only 80 kilometres from the Atlantic Ocean.