GENERAL INFORMATION

ACCOMMODATION

Seville is a city with a wide range of accommodation. You can choose to stay in a typical, traditional hotel or in a modern one.

The total number of hotel beds in hotels ranging from one to five stars, along with hostals and pensiones (guest houses) of all categories is close to 20,000. Seville offers a wide range of lodging options that meet everyone's taste and budget.

Lodging possibilities varies from traditional hotels, located mostly in the historic quarters to ultra modern structures built in new neighborhoods during the last decade. Expo ‘92 urban design set a standard of pride and impeccable functionalism found in projects such as the Exhibition Hall-Palace, the Santa Justa Train Station, or the international San Pablo Airport.

SEVILLE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

Seville airport is located about 10 km north east of the city, on the N-IV motorway to Cordoba and Madrid. Rafael Moneo's impressive modern airport was opened in 1991. It has a capacity for eight million passengers a year.

The bus EA runs a regular service to and from the city and the main railway station (Santa Justa station). There are plenty of taxis outside the terminal building and a number of leading car hire companies based at the airport. The taxi fare to the city ranges from €20 to €25.

At present, Seville is communicated with practically every Spanish city, the most important European capitals and the rest of the world through flight connections, mainly via Madrid and Barcelona, and has direct flights to the following cities: London, Paris, Amsterdam, Basel, Düsseldorf, Geneva, Lisbon, Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Las Palmas, Palma de Mallorca, Tenerife Norte/Sur, Santiago and Valencia. These companies operate with our city:

IBERIA
AIR FRANCE
AIR EUROPA
TRANSAVIA
LTU
CROSSAIR
BRITISH AIRWAYS
AIR BERLIN

ROAD TRANSPORTATION

Seville is well-provided with a modern motorway urban network. In addition, the city is also well-communicated by new motorways with the neighboring cities, as Cordoba, Cadiz or Granada, and with the Spanish Capitol (Madrid).

Detailed below is a list of the most important neighboring cities to Seville, with indications of the distance and time from/to Seville:

  DESTINY DISTANCE TIME
1
Madrid
538 km
4’45 hrs
2
Málaga
219 km
2 hrs
3
Granada
256 km
3 hrs
4
Córdoba
138 km
1 hr
5
Jerez de la Frontera
97 km
45 mins
6
Cádiz
124 km
1 hr
7
Huelva
94 km
50 mins

AVE – HIGH SPEED TRAIN

The high-speed train (AVE, in Spanish) covers the distance to Madrid, 538 km, in two and a half hours, reaching speeds of 300 km/h. The AVE arrives at Seville's new Santa Justa rail station, at 5 km from the FIBES Conference Centre.

THE PORT OF SEVILLE

Seville's port, which is the only inland one in the country, is easily reached by cargo boats and yachts and has a fabulous communication network with the rest of the country.