It's only in recent yeras that budget flights to Seville have become widely available and visitor numbers by air are increasing rapidly. The AVE train service from Madrid is one of the finest train services in the world and well worth considering.
Seville flights
Seville's San Pablo Airport is 11km northeast of the city centre. There are no direct train services but there is an airport bus - there can be lengthy queues - which drops off at the Santa Justa railway station, and at Puerta de Jerez, near the city centre's main tourist office. Taxis from the airport take less than 30min to get into Seville.
Seville's airport was much extended for the 1992 Expo. The majority of flights to Seville are by Iberia, Spanair and budget flight from inside Spain but there are now UK budget flights from Stansted and Liverpool - both with Ryanair, so be ready to add on the extras when you book.
Other international 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.
The airport is expanding rapidly with passenger numbers doubling in the past decade. There's a full range of car hire companies and driving to Jerez, Cadiz, Córdoba or the Costa de Luz will each take about an hour.
Seville trains
The main Santa Justa Railway Station is a couple of kilometres out of the centre - taxis cost about €3 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 - there are fourteen or more trains to Madrid a day reaching speeds of 280 km/hr.
From Madrid, there are connections to the European high-speed rail network. There are also rail connections from Seville to Barcelona, Cadiz, Jaén, Jerez, Granada and Ronda (both with possible changes at Bobadillo), Malaga and Valencia.
Seville roads
Seville's main bus station is at Prado de San Sebastián. There are about 10 buses daily to and from Cadiz as well as 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; or 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. There are parking spaces down by the river and at the railway station.
Seville by sea
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. There are cargo ships but few boats carry passengers.
Cordoba train
Seville airport
Cordoba road
Seville port
