There are many geeky plans, but as in Seville, few. If the Andalusian capital has a special color, the city of the Guadalquivir also has its own art to proudly show off its freakishness.
Friki, like so many other words, began with the intention of ridiculing those people of different appearance, with the idea of being a derogatory and hurtful term. Nowadays, geeks shout that they are geeks with a mouth full of pride. That’s the thing about reappropriation and resignification, which invites you to take a weapon and turn it into armor.
In Seville, as with everything, this geek pride is felt with more vigor than in other parts of the world and that is why the city offers a long list of geek plans to enjoy. These are our favorites.
Deciphering the secrets of an escape room
We don’t have to explain what an escape room is because you probably already know it, but we’re going to do it just in case. It is an enclosed space where you have to find your way out. Through clues, hidden facts and riddles, you have to figure out how to escape or solve a mystery.
The rooms are usually set in detail in the theme on which each one is based, which translates into living the mystery firsthand and in a completely immersive way. Seville has a wide variety of escape rooms that will make you feel like Sherlock Holmes and you would be close friends. A fun and stimulating experience in equal parts that makes it an ideal plan to do with friends.
Enjoy a themed concert by candlelight
One of the best geek plans in Seville is to go to a classical music concert by candlelight. Yes, as you hear (or listen).
The Candlelight tribute series organizes concerts in honor of the best soundtracks of series and classic and current cinema. Imagine how exciting it must be to listen to the music of Game of Thrones, Pirates of the Caribbean or The Bridgertons live, performed by a string quartet. To be speechless…
Afternoon of arcades, one of the best geek plans in Seville
Pacman, Donkey Kong or Super Mario. Those arcade machines of the 80’s in which you spent hours playing without almost blinking have reappeared in Seville in Arcade Planet format, a planet installed in Dos Hermanas with all the arcade games you can imagine. Or what is the same: the largest arcade in Spain and one of the most important in Europe.
Have a drink in a bar with board games.
Reading while drinking a cup of coffee in a cafeteria, taking a dip in the pool mojito in hand or playing Risk or Catán while enjoying a cold beer are inexplicable pleasures. Perhaps it has to do with the fact that in all three proposals an activity is combined with a drink. Is pleasure more pleasurable when accompanied by something in liquid form? Maybe it is.
Maybe that’s why bars or cafeterias with board games are so popular. It is, without a doubt, one of the most successful geek plans in Seville and also one of our favorites. Some of the best known are Orfeo or Kame House Bar Gaming.
Buying merchandise in one of the many Seville geek stores.
Funkos, badges, cards, plushies, t-shirts… Seville’ s geek stores are a practically inexhaustible source of merchandising products.
Nostromo Comics and Games, Freakland or Raccoon Games are some of the busiest and also some of our favorites. Don’t you know them? We dare you to enter one of them and leave empty-handed. It’s an impossible task.