Local Information

Seville (Sevilla in spanish) is one of the main cities in Spain, and the capital of Andalusia (Spain's southern region).

Tourist Office addresses: Calle Arjona, 28 (Tel: 954 505 600); Paseo de las Delicias, 9 (Tel: 954 234 465, Fax: 954 273 078); Avenida de la Constitución, 21 (Tel: 954 221 404/ 954 218 157, Fax: 954 229 753); San Pablo Airport (Tel: 954 449 128, Fax: 954 449 129) and Sevilla–SantaJusta Train Station (Tel/Fax: 954 537 626).

Telephone services
Telephone Country Code of Spain: 34
Toll Free within Spain: 900 XXX XXX. Be careful with some other 90X numbers, which can be very expensive.
Seville is very provided with street pay phones. The phones accept coins and/or telephone cards (tarjetas telef´ onicas). Phone cards can be purchased at tobacco stands (estancos) and newsstands. For international calls several companies offer prepaid cards which use a 900 toll–free number.

Spain uses GSM 900/1800 cellular phones (teléfono mévil) which is compatible with the rest of.Europe, but not with North America and Japan. Beware of calls being routed internationally (very expensive).

Banks
Business hours Monday–Friday: 8:30–14:00. We recommend to exchange cash at a bank.
Currency exchange offices are available at generally higher rates. Always take into consideration exchange rate and commission. During the afternoon or weekends money exchange can be done at large hotels.

Many ATMs can be found around the city. ATMs accept common debit or credit cards (VISA, MASTERCARD). Even some American chains as Cirrus are widely accepted by ATMs in Spain. In the same way, major credit cards are accepted in all hotels and shops.

Transportation

Airport
Seville–San Pablo Airport. Tel: 954 449 000. Iberia General information Tel: 902 400 500.
Airport bus Tel: 902 210 317.

Train
Seville has good rail links to Barcelona, Cádiz, Córdoba, Jaén, Jerez de la Frontera, Granada, Huelva, Madrid, and Málaga. The fast–track AVE railway line provides a 2h 30min connection to Madrid every hour.

Sevilla–Santa Justa train station is connected to the city center by bus lines C1, C2 and 32.

Intercity buses
There are two bus stations with bus services to most of the main cities in Spain. Prado de San Sebastián bus station Tel: 954 417 111. Plaza de Armas bus station Tel: 954 908 040.

Local buses
Orange painted city buses (new buses are painted red) are the predominant public transportation.
Information about bus lines at Transportes Urbanos de Sevilla (TUSSAM) Tel: 954 420 011. It is cheaper if you buy a voucher with 10 tickets (Bonobus): 3.80 Euros for the one–trip voucher and 4.50 Euros for the multiple–connections voucher. There are also tourist vouchers for one day (4 Euros) and for three days (7 Euros).

Taxi
A usual taxi fare from north to south of the city center is around 6 Euros. (Radio–Taxi Giralda Tel: 954 675 555; – Radio–Taxi Tel: 954 580 000; –Tele–Taxi — Tel: 954 622 222).

Open hours for shops
Shops usally to open between 9–10:00 in the morning and close around 14:00 hours for lunch time. In the afternoon they open again at 17:00 hours and close around 21:00 hours (small shops often earlier). On Saturday many small shops open only in the morning.

Bars and restaurants
In Seville you will find a great variety of dishes and places where you can enjoy different types of cuisine.

To start with, you could enjoy the typical Spanish potato omelette (tortilla española), cold tomato soup (gazpacho), shrimp (gambas), fried fish ("pescaito" frito), cured ham (jamón)... Even more special is the bull tail.

There are different and numerous places where you can enjoy lunch or dinner. You will find all kind of restaurants, but we highly recommend the famous tapas bars (the typical Spanish.snacks). Usually, three–four tapas are enough for a dinner, in this way you can try different dishes. In any case, one week is not long enough, however, to try all the specialities of Andalusia.

You can find tapas bar everywhere in Seville (there are more than one thousand of them), but the best places are in Barrio Santa Cruz (Bar Giralda in Mateos Gago Street), Barrio San Lorenzo (If you find a place do not miss Bar El Eslava–Eslava Street), and in Triana (Betis Street and Pages del Corro Street). Barrio de Santa Cruz and Triana are more crowded with tourists, and San Lorenzo is visited mainly by locals (this is good, but you would probably need a Spanish translator, Sevillians are very helpful in general, so it will not be difficult to find that help).

Finally, a word about the open hours. If a bar or restaurant is mainly for tourists, it opens from noon to midnight. But, sometimes a bar for locals does not open before 9 p.m., and it closes at 1–2 a.m.

Insurance and first aid
The registration fee does not include insurance for participants against accidents, sickness, or personal property losses. In case of an emergency please contact the General Information desk.

Useful telephones

The emergency telephone in Europe is 112.
Telephone service for Seville city administration: 010 (toll–free from Seville) (+34) 954 347 161 (International calls) with information on cultural activities and administration; in Spanish, English, French, and Italian language (8:00–22:00 hours operation).

Other useful phone numbers are:
Ambulancias (Ambulance emergency) 061
Airport 954 449 000
Ayuntamiento (City Hall) 954 590 101
Correos (Post office) 902 197 197
Hospital Virgen del Rocío (Emergencies) 954 248 181
Policlínico Virgen Macarena (Emergencies) 902 505 061
Telephone Information Service 11818
RENFE/Sevilla–Santa Justa (Railway) 902 240 202
Iberia 902 400 500
Plaza de Armas (Bus Station) 954 908 040.
Prado de San Sebastián (Bus Station) 954 417 111
Policía Local (Local Police) 092
Policía Nacional (Police) 091
 

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