Alameda de Hercules, Spain Travel Journals & Blogs

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- Nov 5, 2023, 4:22pm
- ☁️ 20 °C
- Altitude: 15 m
- Spain Andalusia Seville Triana Alameda de Hercules 37.397692, -5.99438337°23’52” N 5°59’40” W
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Sunday in Sevilla
November 5, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
A sunny day of slow wandering around. First to Setas de Sevilla (the wooden mushrooms, brilliant) then to convent san ildefonso for cakes thru the door but closed (will have go another day) then to catholic church divini Salvador (brilliant 400 year old wooden and gold leaf alters etc) mixed with a few drinks and a very good tapas lunch. Another +20k steps, feet are a bit sore.
Tonight is as busy as last night at 8pm, dont kids go to bed here! absolutely packed. There must be close to 100 bars/restaurants near us packed outside on street.
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Hotel coffee machine
Setas de Sevilla x 2
Strange front garden
Salvador church x 2
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Traveler Seville
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- Nov 4, 2023
- 🌬 22 °C
- Altitude: 21 m
- Spain Andalusia Seville Triana Alameda de Hercules 37.397612, -5.99426737°23’51” N 5°59’39” W
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Sevilla, late 2023 sun getaway
November 4, 2023 in Spain ⋅ 🌬 22 °C
Early start, 1am for airport, effortless trouble free all the way to Seville.
First impressions are that this is a really nice place, hotel is good, weather is great. Second impressions after walking 20k steps in North sector of old town is that it is very good and on its way to being best place we have stayed and seen in Spain.
On our afternoon exploration we stopped in a local bodega where Diane asked for sangria and they said NO, they had their own version; red wine, ice, lime and bitter lemon. I just wanted red wine and took a sip when the barmaids threw their hands up in horror. Your not supposed to try that rot gut red wine!!! That's why they add ice, lemon and lime. All in it cost us 4 euros, poor wine but great place.
Found a supermarket on way back to get a bottle of wine with a screw top as i dont have a corkscrew for the afternoon. It tasted really heavy and sweet, then Diane found it was sherry! All got 6 euros!
Ps,,,some lovely buildings and churches/basilicas i have photographed here not quite to Diane's taste!Read more
Traveler It looks like a lovely place
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2023
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- Jun 4, 2023
- ⛅ 30 °C
- Altitude: 21 m
- Spain Andalusia Seville Triana Alameda de Hercules 37.395962, -5.9938837°23’45” N 5°59’38” W
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Food in Seville
June 4, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
In the breakfast room of our hotel…fake agapanthus! We had a adventure, at lunchtime, in an off the beaten track restaurant. My tortilla patatas was mashed potatoes, and David and Trish’s lagartitos (translates as lizards) was fried pieces of pork on top of chips swimming in oil.
The cake shops looked good, but not cheap! Euan taste checked the icecreams and orange was superiorRead more
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- Jun 2, 2023, 3:02pm
- ☁️ 28 °C
- Altitude: 19 m
- Spain Andalusia Seville Triana Alameda de Hercules 37.39608, -5.99454537°23’46” N 5°59’40” W
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Lagos to Seville
June 2, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
Left great hotel Avenida in Lagos.
Sad to be leaving such a sunny & bright place. Drove to Faro and dropped off the VW van before being collected and taken to Seville. All very efficient. Very pleased not to be trying to drive in the old city! We were welcomed with a glass of champagne! That hasn’t happened before!
Didn’t have long before we had to grab food and try and find our way to our boat trip on the river. First of all, find your river. We did eventually and went on the trip - fairly ho-hum but relaxing. They served us drinks , prosciutto and cheese. Among the passengers were
four young Aussie boys and a woman who had spent ten years as an emergency Dr at Invercargill hospital! We had a brisk walk back to Hotel H10corregidor.Read more
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Traveler Europe 2023
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- May 4, 2023, 9:59am
- ☁️ 19 °C
- Altitude: 11 m
- Spain Andalusia Seville Triana Alameda de Hercules 37.4, -5.99333337°24’0” N 5°59’36” W
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Alameda de Hercules
May 4, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
The Alameda de Hércules is a garden square or mall built in 1574, originally as a promenaded public garden, named after the eight rows of white poplar trees (álamos in Spanish) that fill its central part. It was the oldest public garden in Spain and Europe.

Before its transformation, the square was a swampy pond.In 1574, the Count of Barajas drained the water, building irrigation channels and fountains, and planting lines of waterside white poplar trees. Two sculptures were placed atop the two southern columns: Hercules (mythological founder of Seville) and Julius Caesar (referred to as the restorer of the city during Roman rule). In the second half of the eighteenth century, two additional statues of lions with shields, representing Seville and Spain, were placed on the northern columns.

The Alameda began to suffer a progressive deterioration, and became one of the poorest neighbourhoods of Seville, troubled by prostitution and drugs. A slow recovery began during the early 21st century, then public redevelopment funded by the city council totally renewed La Alameda in 2006-2008.Read more
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Alejandro Quesada Séville 2022
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- Nov 11, 2022, 10:41pm
- ⛅ 17 °C
- Altitude: 15 m
- Spain Andalusia Seville Triana Alameda de Hercules 37.396667, -5.99166737°23’48” N 5°59’30” W
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Soirée typical Andalusian 🧀🍷🙏🏼
November 11, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Le dîner se passe très bien chez "Lama La Uva", un restaurant gastronomique à côté de "Las Setas de Sevilla" 🍄

Juan et son ami nous rejoindre et on essaie quelques vins différents, aussi que de jambon et du fromage. Avant de partir je vole un verre à vin car le dessin me plaît et il y a pas beaucoup de choses qui me donnent plus d'adrénaline et satisfaction dans la vie 🤫

Caza Vizcaíno est un des bars les plua typiques à Séville et on le remarque dès qu'on rentre. On trouve un bon endroit pour nous mettre et boire un coup. On discute un peu sur la bière qui vient de Séville (Cruzcampo) et on fini pour la commander et la goûter 🍺

Pour bien finir on va a Garlochí, un bar où j'avais envie d'aller il y a plus de 4 ans. Ça vaut le coup car c'est une sacrée expérience dès qu'on traverse la porte. Tout ce qui nous entoure est dédié à la religion, on voit presque pas les murs. Tout est en rouge et le comptoir du bar est un char de Pâques. On est venus pour essayer un cocktail qui est fait qu'ici: "Le Sang du Christ", fait avec du Cava, du Whisky et de la Grenadine, et apparemment je suis le seul à qui le plaît vraiment 😂Read more
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Alejandro Quesada Séville 2022
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- Nov 12, 2022, 10:34pm
- ⛅ 16 °C
- Altitude: 20 m
- Spain Andalusia Seville Triana Alameda de Hercules 37.398333, -5.99666737°23’54” N 5°59’48” W
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Soirée à Alameda 🤗🍷
November 12, 2022 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Le soir mes amis Laura, Juan, Jose y Maria nous rejoindre pour un verre. On se promène au centre ville et on marche jusqu'à Alameda, le quartier avec beaucoup de bars.

On fait une soirée tranquille tout simplement avec des tapas et du vin 🍷❤️‍🩹Read more
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Traveler 2017 Europe & Asia Adventure
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- Sep 15, 2017
- ☀️ 23 °C
- Altitude: 52 ft
- Spain Andalusia Seville Triana Alameda de Hercules 37.397453, -5.99618637°23’51” N 5°59’46” W
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Day 6 - Sevilla Arrival
September 15, 2017 in Spain ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Well...we have said it 5 days in a row and meant it every time. But, once again, every day has been better than the last. We LOVE Sevilla.

Cadiz had originally been planned as a day trip from Sevilla but we decided to change it to a 2 night stay. After just a few hours in Cadiz, we thought about bagging Sevilla completely and staying a week in Cadiz. We are so happy we didn't do that. Sevilla has all of the charm and beauty of an old Spanish town like Cadiz and Toledo with all of the attractions and kind people of a city like Madrid. It may not have a beach, but it has a beautiful canal surrounding the city, as well as cathedrals, museums, monuments, AND Plaza de Espana, where the pod race scene from Star Wars Episode One was filmed. And we managed to see all of this today. But, the stand out of the day so far has been the food.

After our tapas-filled lunch, Tim and I agreed it had been our best meal yet. But even that couldn't top our tapas-filled dinner at a Michelin star "bar", Eslava. I want to write all of these tapas down so we don't forget.

Lunch - swordfish over orange wine sauce, "Padron" peppers, dates wrapped in bacon, hearts of palm over vegetable gazpacho, eggplant topped with goat cheese and drizzled in honey

Dinner - roasted mackerel with tomato onion pepper salad, roasted pork rib with rosemary honey glaze, artichokes with fried garlic and shavings of cod, grilled razor clams with lemon, slow cooked egg over boletas cake with caramelized wine reduction, and brick pastry stuffed with cuttlefish (we did it again!) and algae served with yogurt.

(Each of these tapas are about 2 Euros a piece...amazing)

...not to mention where we are staying. We have a room in a 19th century Andalusian house that is absolutely beautiful. Our friendly hosts are the ones who recommended both of these amazing meals.

I can't wait to see what tomorrow brings!Read more
Traveler Wow. Magnificent!
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Traveler Cool!
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Traveler What an amazing trip you are having!
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Traveler 2017 Europe & Asia Adventure
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- Sep 16, 2017, 11:34pm
- 🌙 18 °C
- Altitude: 52 ft
- Spain Andalusia Seville Triana Alameda de Hercules 37.397495, -5.99622437°23’51” N 5°59’46” W
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Day 7 - Sevilla!
September 16, 2017 in Spain ⋅ 🌙 18 °C
Today was pretty much the first day we had to just relax and take it slow. And we needed it! We woke up late and found an awesome park on the water to workout. Then we had breakfast (and lunch!) while wandering the streets and alleys before returning for an early siesta at the beautiful Airbnb. We met our first American friend, Graham, from New Orleans, who is renting the other room in the house, as we sipped a glass of wine on the terrace. Then we wandered the streets some more, had a couple of cervezas at a local bodega, and had a nice dinner while people watching near the city center. Last, but absolutely not least, I finally got my churros con chocolate that we missed out on in Madrid!!!! Now time for an early night (and our books)!!!

Not many pictures (and they're all of me because Tim had the phone) and a fairly uneventful day, but just as wonderful as the last. Sevilla is absolutely beautiful and the people are by far the nicest we have met so far.Read more
Traveler Mmmmmmmmm
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Traveler What books are you reading?
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Traveler I finished Everything You Want Me To Be by Mindy Mejia and just started He's Gone by Deb Caletti. Tim is reading The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests by Tom Wolfe.
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Traveler 2017 Europe & Asia Adventure
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- Sep 17, 2017, 11:15pm
- ⛅ 20 °C
- Altitude: 52 ft
- Spain Andalusia Seville Triana Alameda de Hercules 37.397579, -5.99610437°23’51” N 5°59’46” W
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Day 8 - Last Day/Night in Sevilla
September 17, 2017 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
Sevilla has been absolutely amazing! It reminds me of a Spanish Richmond. It has all of the feels of a small city, yet it's large enough to have a little of everything. There are restaurants, bars, and cafes on every street. There is a ton of culture and history everywhere you look. The people are so charming and friendly. It's cheap! There's a waterfront full of architecture, parks, water sports, art walks, and even a foodie event that we stumbled upon today (similar to "Broad Appetite" of Richmond). While we could happily stay here forever, we did these 3 days right and are happy to see what's in store for us next. We stayed in a beautiful Andalusian home with the nicest hosts imaginable. We ate some of the best food we have ever had (and checked off 7 of the 15 or so restaurants off of our hosts' recommendation list), we wandered about 10 miles a day through streets and alleyways, we explored the beautiful architecture on both sides of the canal, we saw the Cathedral, the Real Alcazar, the Plaza de Espana, and so much more.

Today was a great finale. Another workout on the water. Crepes for breakfast. Hours of alley wandering and site-seeing. Siesta. Wine on the rooftop. More walking. Another tapas-filled dinner and people watching on a busy terrace. Now some rest and relaxation before we head off to Granada in the morning.Read more
Traveler You don't look like you're gaining weight. All that fabulous food!!
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Traveler Sounds lovely. Meanwhile I'm being tortured (as always) by the Redskins😘😘.
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Traveler Very cool.
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