Seville getting there
Travel guide to Seville flights, trains and buses
Cheap flights to Seville Spain have become widely available in recent years and visitor numbers by air are increasing rapidly.
The AVE train service between Madrid and Seville is one of the finest train services in the world and well worth considering as an alternative when planning a Seville holiday.
Seville's San Pablo Airport is 11km northeast of the city centre. It has no direct train services but you can catch an airport bus. Expect lengthy queues though.
The Seville airport bus drops off at the Santa Justa railway station, and at Puerta de Jerez, near Seville's main tourist office. Taxis from the airport take less than 30min to get into Seville city centre.
Seville airport was much extended for the 1992 Expo. The majority of flights to Seville are by Iberia, Spanair and budget flights from inside Spain.
Vueling has direct flights to Seville from London Heathrow. There are now cheap flights to Seville from Stansted and Liverpool - both with Ryanair, so be ready to add on the extras when you book.
Other Seville flights are from Amsterdam, Dublin, Lisbon, London Gatwick and Paris. Long-haul flights will normally require a transfer at Madrid or some other European hub airport.
Seville airport is expanding rapidly with passenger numbers doubling in the past decade. A full range of Seville car hire companies is available and driving to Jerez, Cadiz, Córdoba or the Costa de Luz will each take about an hour.
The main Santa Justa Railway Station is a couple of kilometres out of the centre. Get a taxi or you can get buses #27 and #32 for the city centre. The rail station is very modern and offers the fabulous AVE express train service to Córdoba (40min) and Madrid in 2½ hours with 14 or more trains to Madrid a day.
From Madrid, you can pick up connections to the European high-speed rail network with other rail connections from Seville to Barcelona, Cadiz, Jaén, Jerez, Granada and Ronda (both with possible changes at Bobadillo), Malaga and Valencia.
Seville's main bus station is at Prado de San Sebastián. About 10 buses daily service Cadiz and there are regular services to Cordoba, Granada, Jerez de la Frontera and Malaga. You can also catch buses to the Mediterranean coast, from the Costa del Sol in the south to Barcelona in the north.
Many services use another bus station at Plaza de Armas, next to the river near the Puente del Cachorro. This has connections to Madrid and Aracena, other services in Huelva Province, Merida and northwest Spain. There are two services daily to Lisbon. It's always worth checking locally which bus service uses which bus station.
Seville is well served with motorways. The main arrival points are the E-5 from Cordoba and Cadiz, the A-49/E-1 from Huelva and the Portuguese border and the A-92 from Malaga.
While the city boasts some wonderfully wide avenues, driving in the old city centre is a nightmare with its narrow streets, one-way systems and near impossible parking. What parking is available can be found down by the river and at the railway station.
Seville may have been the port for the Americas 500 years ago, and it's still Spain's only river port, but arrival by sea is now a near-impossibility. Cargo ships are frequent, but few boats will carry passengers.
The Giralda Tower, when first built was the world's tallest building
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