Festivals in Andalusia
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Biennial Festival of the Flamenco Arts, Seville
For all 'aficionados'... an exceptional, unmissable event! Every second September, 'cantaores', 'bailaores', guitarists and actors of the flamenco world invade Seville. Much of the programme is created specially for the 'Bienal'... song, dance, guitar, theatre and interdisciplinary pieces... an intriguing mix of the traditional and the experimental, featuring Spain's foremost flamenco artists. During the day, we visit all the most interesting parts of Seville, as well as taking two excursions, one to the Huelva coast, and the other in the agricultural lands of the Guadalquivir valley and the oak forests and dehesas of the Sierra Norte.

ONE WEEK, HALF BOARD (breakfast and one main meal a day), hotel (twin rooms with bathroom) in the historic Barrio de Santa Cruz, near the Cathedral, Alcázares and numerous bars with delicious tapas! Group 10 maximum.

PRICE to be announced in 2011.

DATES September/October 2012, to be announced in 2011.

Location of this programme:

ACTIVITIES (provisional)

FESTIVAL: a minimum of five evenings of flamenco

DAYTIME VISITS and EXCURSIONS (provisional):
history of Seville
- Iberian Hispal
- Roman Hispalis: Caños de Carmona, Los Mármoles
- Caliphal Ishbiliya (C9-11): El Salvador
- Almohad (C12): Giralda, Torre de Oro, Patio del Yeso, walls...
- Mudéjar: Alcázares Reales, Casa de Pilatos, Convento de Santa Paula, C14 churches...
- Gothic and Renaissance architecture: cathedral, city hall...
- Columbus and the New World: former port, Indies Archive, La Magdalena...
- The Baroque of Leonardo de Figueroa: churches, Palacio de San Telmo
- María Luisa Park
- Neomudéjar: buildings of Anibal González and José Espiau
- fine arts, folk and archaeological museums

the streets of old Seville
- El Centro, El Arenal, Barrio de Santa Cruz, Barrio de la Macarena, Triana

Day excursion to the Atlantic coast
- the Columbus heritage: Moguer, Palos de la Frontera, La Rábida
- the little walled town of Niebla, ancient capital of the Algarve

Day excursion to the Guadalquivir valley and the Sierra Norte
- the Roman sites: Munigua (mining town), Carmona (necropolis) and Itálica
- the historic Mudéjar monastery of San Isidoro del Campo.

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