Triana Free Tour

Cross the Puente de Isabel II from Plaza del Altozano and you leave postcard Seville behind for Triana, the working-class riverside district locals still half-jokingly call an independent republic. This is where Spain's transatlantic sailors once set out from, where potters have thrown the city's blue-and-yellow ceramics for centuries, and where flamenco took shape in courtyards and taverns long before it reached a stage.

Your guide walks the ceramic-tiled workshops of Calle Alfarería, the riverside chapels where sailors prayed before long voyages, and the narrow streets where flamenco's gitano roots still run deep. It's the Seville the cathedral crowds never see — and the one many sevillanos love best.