An alternative Seville in the Avenue of Hércules
Beyond the most typical Sevillian monuments, the famous holidays that nobody wants (it has to) get lost and of its most «Flemish» and tourist face, there exists another modern, alternative, vital and renewed Seville; a city that he bets for the ecological thing and for the responsible consumption and that moves in bicycle or in tramcar.
It is the Seville of the Sevillian ones, and only it is necessary to mix with them to discover the most authentic face of the city. For example, in the Avenue of Hércules, the most chameleon-like area of the city, the darling for Bohemians, artists and modern. These are the essential stops for «alamedear» to the Sevillian one.
The Avenue, the essential walk
The Avenue of Hércules is the most changeable territory of the city. It was an ancient marsh that turned in the XVIth century into one of the first urban gardens of Europe. The continuous rises of the river did not allow to transform it into a really interesting area for the Sevillian ones and it stayed like a marginal quarter, but the celebration of the Expo 92 changed its luck and since then it is the most living quarter and more marchoso of the city. There are places of glasses, restaurants of design, centers of art and also you crunch many and covers bars. And on all of them, Hércules and Julius Caesar watch from its Roman column that they all enjoy. Any hour is good to take a cervecita in some of many patios that happen in the Avenue, the area with more bars and restaurants for square meter of Seville.
The Market of the Fair and the Thursday flea market
It is the whole luxury to do the buy in a building of 1719. The Market of Fair, in the street of the same name, is one of the places with more flavor of the city and not only therefore it sells, but for the good ambience that is breathed in the Market of Fair, between traditional positions and others that have turned into tapeo places and where it is possible to taste authentically Sevillian both lid and a Peruvian ceviche or a Valencian rice.
Pumarejo´s Square
And in the same street It Takes a break the traveler will be able to appear to one of the most typical spaces of the city: the houses of neighbors installed on ancient palaces. And the fact is that many of the palaces of the XVIIIth and XIXth centuries were left and turned in corralas where till not long ago there were shared rooms, bath and battery to wash the clothes. In the Square Pumarejo there is two of these neighbors’ houses, and in one of them there is the Wine vault Camacho, where the lids of snails are the essential plate.
Palacio de Los Marqueses de la Algaba
If something is in abundance in Seville, in addition to covers bars, there are palaces. The Sevillian ones have recovered many of them, like the Palace of the Marquesses of the Algaba, a civil monument of the Mudejar who was remaining in ruins until it was rehabilitated like Center of Interpretation of the Mudejar Art, with two rooms that lodge the best of the municipal archaeological collection and a courtyard that it transforms into theater outdoors in summer. And the entry is free, so there are no excuses not to appear.
Anticuarium y Metrosol Parasol
Much of this Avenue do not move away, on the south, and we meet one of the icons of Seville: the called «Las Setas», which it is as they have baptized the Sevillian ones to Metrosol Parasol, a structure designed by Jürgen Mayer in 2011 who lodges a market of supplies and a lookout with included bar, really close To our Koinsi Hostel.
But the best thing is below: the excavations before to its construction left to the overdraft 13 centuries of the history of Seville, from the Romans to the Almohad ones, a spectacular set that includes wells of a Roman factory of saltings of the Ist century, Roman towns with more than 30 mosaics and up to a house of the XIIIth century.
But the best thing is below: the excavations before to its construction left to the overdraft 13 centuries of the history of Seville, from the Romans to the Almohad ones, a spectacular set that includes wells of a Roman factory of saltings of the Ist century, Roman towns with more than 30 mosaics and up to a house of the XIIIth century.
The area of the «Alameda of Hercules» and all the streets of around has turned for years into the place in which the Sevillian ones stay to eat, to drink, tapear or simply turn. The area is a succession of bars and restaurants, but we can begin for the most ancient of all, before coming to the area of the Avenue, in the street Gerona: The Rinconcillo, visit forced for being the most ancient bar of Seville (founded in 1670) and especially for its famous spinach with chick-peas.
In the same Avenue The Cistern is, one of the typical houses of the quarter with sun veranda full of plants that has turned into an elegant bar and restaurant where a roof is not missing for when the time accompanies.
Also we will be able to sit down in the patio of La Mata, almost a theater box to contemplate the life that passes for the Avenue while one is proved graze it of chicken or a carré of lamb to the thin grasses.
Essential reference there are The Roof, with its covers of author or Slav, crammed always with the people who does not resist to its creations with Andalusian products of the first, imagination and very much fondness. For the lovers of the new beers artisans, also he has proposed interesting like Multure, a factory where they produce and serve their own beer and good covers to combine surrounded with a sugerente industrial decoration.
