Seville’s former Jewish Quarter, its three synagogues turned into churches, and the legends still told in its streets—with a guide who knows them like the back of their hand.
Walking tour
Through one of Spain’s best-preserved Jewish quarters, among squares, alleyways, and courtyards
Sephardic Seville, explained by someone who truly knows it
An official guide connects Jewish memory with the Christian Seville that inherited its streets and temples
Corners that standard tourism barely reaches
Squares and alleyways away from the busiest route, where the neighborhood keeps its original character
A walk set by you
Stop wherever you feel like, ask anything you want, and let the conversation with your guide go beyond the script
Seville’s Jewish quarter, Santa Cruz, is the smallest and most densely packed neighborhood in the Andalusian capital: streets narrow until two people can barely pass side by side, courtyards hinted at behind wrought-iron gates, and squares the size of a living room.
The city’s Jewish community lived here for centuries, and its origins still shape the layout: there isn’t a single straight street, because the neighborhood grew house by house, without planning, around three synagogues that today are churches.
Getting lost in Santa Cruz is the best way to know it: follow the scent of orange blossom to a courtyard lined with flowerpots, sit on a tiled bench in Doña Elvira Square, or stop in front of the ceramic skull on Susona Street—the one that recalls the city’s most-told legend of love and betrayal.
With a private guide who knows every name and every story, the walk stops being merely pretty and starts to make perfect sense.
Susona Street
Doña Elvira Square
Church of Santa María la Blanca
Hospital de los Venerables
Callejón del Agua
Murillo Gardens
Walking tour
Tailor-made through the streets, squares, and courtyards of Seville’s Jewish Quarter
Private Official Guide
Specialized in Sephardic history and the Santa Cruz neighborhood
Flexible itinerary
In pace, duration, and content
Option to combine
With the Cathedral, the Royal Alcázar, or a gastronomic experience in the center
History you won’t find in guidebooks
Many of this neighborhood’s legends and details don’t appear on any sign. Your guide links each street to the person or event that made it memorable—from Susona to the exact origin of each synagogue.
A tour with no lines or waiting
There are no tickets to manage and no monument timetables to coordinate. You walk the neighborhood at your own pace, without depending on capacity limits or anyone else’s availability. Maximum comfort.
Total personalization
You book the tour for yourself, your family, or the people you’re traveling with. No one else joins the walk, and the guide adapts the content to what truly interests you, improvising whatever you like.
A starting point to keep exploring
Santa Cruz borders the Cathedral, the Giralda, and the Royal Alcázar. If you’d like to extend the day, we can link this tour with any of them—without you having to organize anything extra.
The tour lasts around 2.5 hours—enough time to explore the streets, squares, and main temples of the Jewish quarter in detail. If you’d like to extend it with a food stop or combine it with another visit, we’ll adjust the duration to whatever you prefer.
No. The route focuses on streets, squares, and exterior façades, so there’s no need to arrange tickets. If at any point you’d like to go into the Hospital de los Venerables or another paid-access site, we’ll coordinate it on the spot.
Yes. It’s a walking tour along narrow, slightly cobbled streets, with hardly any slope. We recommend comfortable shoes, especially in the hottest months. If anyone in your group has reduced mobility, let us know when booking and we’ll adapt the itinerary as much as possible.
Yes. We adapt the pace and the stories to younger ages; in fact, the neighborhood’s legends are usually what children get most hooked on.
Of course. Santa Cruz is just steps from the Cathedral, the Giralda, and the Royal Alcázar. We can link this tour with any of them, or with a gastronomic experience in the historic center.
If you need it, yes. We can organize a private transfer from your hotel to the meeting point and back as an additional service. Please indicate this when requesting the visit.
No. It’s a private tour, so you arrange it for yourself, your family, or the group you’re traveling with—at the pace and with the focus you prefer.
Accessibility
Wheelchair users or guests with special mobility needs must contact our team in advance before booking. Depending on availability and access conditions at certain sites, we can adapt the route to ensure the best possible experience.
Schedule changes
Due to operational issues or any other circumstance beyond Andalucía Exclusiva’s control, the tour time may be modified. If any change occurs, it will be communicated to the client as far in advance as possible.
If the new proposed time is not accepted by the client, they may cancel the booking and a full refund of the amount paid will be issued.
Flexible cancellation policy
Cancellations communicated more than 48 hours before the start of the tour will incur a €20 per person handling fee.
For minors, this amount may be lower depending on the type of ticket purchased.
Cancellations made less than 48 hours in advance are non-refundable, except in duly justified force majeure situations. Each case will be reviewed individually by our team.
Cancellation procedure
Cancellation requests must be made through one of the following channels:
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +34 958 19 78 26
Contact form available on this website
At Andalucía Exclusiva, we’ve been designing tours around Seville for a long time, and Santa Cruz holds a very particular place in our work: it’s the neighborhood where the city keeps its most human stories, scattered among streets, squares, and tiles that speak as eloquently as any monument.
We work with guides who master Sephardic history and the neighborhood’s legends—able to turn a walk into a story you’ll remember long after the guided tour ends.
Tell us your travel dates, how many you are, and any details you’d like to include in the tour. We’ll get back to you with a tailor-made proposal as soon as possible.