Seville - Surroundings

The San Pablo Airport is located 10km north east of the Seville city center. It services both national and international flights.

This luxuriously equipped train (with discothèque, video shows, etc.) operates three 3-day tours. The first runs from Seville to Córdoba, Granada and Málaga. The second trip, runs from Barcelona to Santiago de Compostela via Pamplona or Logrono, Burgos, Léon and Ponferrada, and the third takes in cities around Madrid - Ávila, Salamanca, Toledo and Segovia. The fare for each of the three-day trips includes sightseeing tours and lunches, participation in fiestas and other events, and dinner, bed and breakfast. Information about these trains can be obtained from RENFE offices.

A short distance beyond Santiponce a road goes off on the left to the Roman site of Itálica, a town founded about 205 B.C. by Scipio Africanus the Elder, later the birthplace of the Emperors Trajan and Hadrian.

The remains include an amphitheater with seating for 25,000 spectators and traces of houses and fountains. The fine mosaics which were found here are now mostly in the Archeological Museum in Seville; only a few remain in site.

Leave Seville on the Huelva road and after crossing the Guadalquivir turn right into N 630, which runs north to the village of Santiponce (8km/ 5mi), with the much dilapidated monastery of San Isidoro del Campo, founded by Guzmán el Bueno in 1298. The church has a very beautiful carved Gothic altar and contains the tombs of the founder and his wife.