Seville Spring Fair- Hotel Alfonso XIII
The Seville Spring Fair, La Feria de abril de Sevilla, is held in the Andalusian capital of Seville, Spain. The fair generally begins two weeks after the Easter Holy Week (Semana Santa). Take advantage of our Spring Fair Offer, valid for stays from April, 20-24.
During the whole week, Seville creates a thrilling atmosphere of colour, joy and Flamenco music. Live as a Sevillian: morning walks by the Fair park, evenings at the corridas in the bullfighting ring "La Maestranza" and endless nights singing and dancing with a glass of dry sherry, manzanilla and typical Andalusian fried fish.
The fair officially begins at midnight on Tuesday, and runs six days, ending on the following Sunday. During past fairs, however, many activities have begun on the Saturday prior to the official opening. Each day the fiesta begins with the parade of carriages and riders, at midday, carrying Seville's leading citizens which make their way to the bullring, La Real Maestranza, where the bullfighters and breeders meet.
For the duration of the fair, the fairgrounds, a vast area on the far bank of the Guadalquivir River, are totally covered in rows of casetas (individually decorated marquee tents, temporarily erected on the fairground). Some of these casetas belong to the prominent families of Seville, some to groups of friends, clubs, trade associations or political parties. From around nine at night until six or seven the following morning, at first in the streets and later only within each caseta, you will find crowds partying and dancing "Sevillanas", drinking Jerez sherry, or manzanilla wine, and eating tapas.
La Feria of Abril is accompanied by men and women dressed up in their finery, ideally the traditional "traje corto" (short jacket, tight trousers and boots) for men and the "faralaes" or "trajes de flamenca" (flamenco style dress, see flamenco) for women. The men traditionally wear hats called "cordobés"
The Fair dates back to 1847 when it was originally organized as a livestock fair by two councillors, José María Ybarra and Narciso Bonaplata. Queen Isabel II agreed to the proposal, and on 18 April 1847 the first fair was held at the Prado de San Sebastian, on the outskirts of the city.
It took only one year before an air of festivity began to transform the fair, due mainly to the emergence of the first three casetas, belonging to the Duke and Duchess of Montpensier, the Town Hall, and the Casino of Seville. During the 1920s The Fair reached wider acclaim and has since been maintained as the vibrant spectacle that it is today. Hotel Alfonso XIII invites you to share in this tradition and makes doing so even more obtainable with our Spring Fair Offer. La Feria de abril, for non-citizens of Seville, is certain to provide a truly rare and irreplaceable memories.
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