Cine de Verano
Location: Patio de la Diputación, Avda Menéndez Pelayo, 32
Dates: All of September (22:00 is typical start time)
A cheap way to enjoy a movie (2€), with recent releases such as Cold Mountain. Each has a featured short film before the main attraction. All in an outdoor setting complete with a bar, popcorn, hotdogs, sandwiches, tapas, beer and drinks. Cines de verano, what amounts to an outdoor screening, are a part of summer in Seville. I really love these and the ability to get up and stretch your legs without missing any of the action. It's like a drive-in without the cars.

 

 

Corpus Christi
Location: Plaza San Francisco and city center
Dates: 15 June
Altars are set up around the center streets while storefronts and balconies are decorated, in this celebration of the Eucharist. A large gate, or puerta, is erected in Plaza San Francisco for the processions to pass by a large altar. The day of Corpus Christi there is an early morning "parade" from the Cathedral through Plaza San Francisco. Images of saints followed by La Custodia, a central part of the Catholic communion, make up the procession. Photos

 

Corpus Christi
Location: Plaza San Francisco and city center
Dates: 26 May
Altars are set up around the center streets while storefronts and balconies are decorated, in this celebration of the Eucharist. A large gate, or puerta, is erected in Plaza San Francisco for the processions to pass by a large altar. The day of Corpus Christi there is an early morning "parade" from the Cathedral through Plaza San Francisco. Images of saints followed by La Custodia, a central part of the Catholic communion, make up the procession. Photos

 

 


Cine de Verano
Location: Patio de la Diputación, across from Jardines Murillo
Dates: All of July (22:00 is typical start time)

A cheap way to enjoy a movie (2€), with recent releases such as Lost in Translation. Each has a featured short film before the main attraction. All in an outdoor setting complete with a bar, popcorn, hotdogs, sandwiches, tapas, beer and drinks. Cines de verano, what amounts to an outdoor screening, are a part of summer in Seville, especially before the real heat hits in August. I really love these and the ability to get up and stretch your legs without missing any of the action. It's like a drive-in without the cars.

 


Feria de San Juan de Aznalfarache

Location: San Juan de Aznalfarache
Dates: June 23-27

We should never forget about all the little ferias throughout Andalucia, or Spain for that matter. While maybe not the most popular of the celebrations in and around Sevilla the Feria de San Juan de Aznalfarache should be interesting with concerts, a couple of nights featuring a giant paella, a car and motorcycle rally as well as a fishing contest on the Guadalquivir. Of course every day there will be plenty to eat and drink. Top it all off with fireworks on the last day!

 

 

 

 

Fiesta de la Manzanilla
Location: Sanlúcar de Barrameda
Dates: 31 May - 5 June
This is a little post town where the Guadalquivir meets the Atlantic ocean. The festival is the towns Feria, with plenty of manzanilla to drink, Sevillanas to dance and of course a lot of food, especially seafood. You'll find all of the activity not far from the beaches on Avenida Amarilla.

 

 

 

 

Cruces de Mayo
Location: Cordoba (center)
Dates: 29 April - 2 May
In Cordoba the celebration is much more famous than Seville, as the city center is full of plazas decorated for the event by the brotherhoods and other community groups. During the day you can see the floral designs, and by night the fiesta atmosphere is in full swing, with lights, dancing and plenty of drinking. There are also several other Cruces de Mayo celebrations in smaller towns in Andalucia.