As much as you think we have summer ahead of us, the month of August also passes like a sigh in Seville. And September on the horizon is threatening to bring back the routine’s unpleasantness. So, in order to warn the reader, we will be offering some suggestive and summery plans to enjoy the last moments of the summer.
Candlelight Concerts
Candlelight adapts its idiosyncrasy to the summer in Seville as one of the best plans for this August. The proposal is infallible: amazing locations, hundreds of candles and musical programs for all tastes by quartets, soloists or string quintets. Throughout the month you have several unmissable dates with music that we detail in the following lines.
- Candlelight tribute to The Beatles at the Hotel Alfonso XIII (August 10)
- The best of ABBA amidst hundreds of candles (August 10)
- Hans Zimmer’s soundtracks will play in the Salón Real of this luxurious hotel (August 24)
- The best of Queen by the string quintet Totem Ensemble (August 24)
2. Seville Opera Nights
The Association of Palace Houses of Seville launched this program in collaboration with Engranajes Culturales and Classical Passion & More. A series of performances that extend this August as one of the most seductive plans for music lovers in Seville.
At the same time, it is an enhancement of the link between opera and such emblematic places of the city as those responsible for hosting these concerts. This August Carmen will be performed on August 30 at 21:30 hours.
3. Go up to the Atalaya terrace free of charge
During the summer, Torre Sevilla and Eurostars recover this popular campaign: go up to the Atalaya Terrace-Mirador for free.
Enjoy one of the most breathtaking panoramic views that will not cost you anything to enjoy if you register as a Torre Sevilla Club member.
4. Veranillos del Alamillo
The ‘Veranillos del Alamillo’ return to the Cortijo of this green lung to provide a program full of summer activities. This edition includes musical bingo, outdoor magic, its iconic summer cinema and workshops for the whole family. And, as has become tradition, free of charge.
5. Perseids 2025: when to see the Tears of Saint Lawrence
The Perseids spectacle marks the summer with its prolific parade of meteors streaking across the sky. Also known as the Tears of St. Lawrence due to the proximity of their peak activity on the day of the martyr’s feast, they can be seen, as usual each year, in August. Check where and when to enjoy them in their greatest splendor.
6. Jazz at the CAAC
Asejazz, Seville Jazz Association provides music lovers with a new edition of summer concerts. An organization that began its journey in late 2012 and that gives us events like this.
This 2025 concerts are scheduled for the nights of August 5, 12 and 19, 2025.
7. The pavías of Tomares
Tomares makes the most of its nights and recovers ‘Las pavías’, its popular event dedicated to hake and codfish soldaditos. The Jardines del Conde del Ayuntamiento de Tomares will be the backdrop that hosts this event by the women of the Sacramental Sisterhood, on Fridays and Saturdays of the months of July and August.
8. Alcazar Nights
Along with its dramatized visits at sunset, the series of concerts Nights in the Gardens of the Royal Alcazar has been held for another year .
What is one of the main cultural events of the summer in Seville offers on this occasion a program that will last until mid-September until September 20.
This XXVI edition will continue to be accessed through the Puerta de la Alcoba, located in the Paseo de Catalina de Ribera, in the Murillo Gardens, from 21:00 hours. For its part, the concerts will start at 22:30 hours and will not have a break.
9. Go up to the roofs of the Cathedral at sunset.
Going up to the roofs of the Cathedral is one of the most surprising cultural routes in Seville, even for the Sevillians themselves. In this case, the Cabildo offers visitors this panoramic view of the entire city through the history of the construction of this temple.
10. Dramatized visits to the Real Alcazar
The Real Alcázar of Seville joins the coming summer activities in the city and prepares a new cycle of dramatized night visits.
The appointment is in charge of the Company Classic Theater of Seville, which has prepared a visit on texts of Alfonso Zurro around the 500th anniversary of the marriage between the emperor Carlos V and Isabel of Portugal that, on the other hand, took place precisely in the Real Alcázar of Seville.
11. Summer nights in this Mudejar palace.
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It is during the summer season when it acquires greater splendor in the context of the ‘Summer Nights’ in the Palacio de los Marqueses de la Algaba.
Free concerts every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from June 30 until August 28.
12. Summer Nights at Cajasol
Summer Nights at Cajasol this 2025 are held every Thursday between July 10 and September 11. A musical cycle that takes place in the courtyard of the Foundation’s headquarters.
13. The most eagerly awaited premieres
The summer season is not necessarily far from big premieres. Throughout the month of June, films such as Karate Kid: Legend (August 8), Materialistas ( August 14) and Put Yourself in My Place Again (August 8) await us in theaters.
14. The best campsites in Andalusia
Choosing accommodation and plans for the month of August in Seville and surroundings at the last minute can be a tedious task if you do not take into consideration these alternative accommodations. In Andalusia there is a proliferation of campsites as destinations in themselves.
Located in natural landscapes or near beautiful beaches with all the guarantees of fun and summer activities without sacrificing comfort.
15. The most amazing beaches in Andalusia.
Andalusia boasts the luxury of being one of the most prolific regions in terms of varied landscapes. In summer, the entire coastline that agglutinates summons thousands of travelers. And there are all kinds: the closest to Seville, beaches for dogs, waterfalls and even the most beautiful of all, the best beach in Spain.
Faced with such a presentation there is no choice but to drop by one of these summer destinations, nestled in beautiful landscapes or picturesque villages.
16. Refreshing plans this August in Seville: water parks.
Liquidate the summer without having gone to one of the water parks that dispenses the city of Seville is not understood. Especially before the past and imminent heat waves, as they are indispensable shelters to refresh the days of summer. These are the ones offered by the city, their attractions, prices and schedules.
17. Noctaíra ( To be confirmed 2025)
The City Council of Alcalá de Guadaíra resumes its cultural nights through ‘Noctaíra’, a free cultural festival for all ages. An event that aims to promote heritage and cultural tourism, offer a leisure alternative in the summer nights as well as to generate its own identity that attracts local visitors and visitors from the rest of the province.
The municipality of Seville celebrates this edition from July 4 to September 7 and will have in August with a good number of summer plans.
18. CAAC Pop
The Andalusian Center of Contemporary Art becomes a musical oasis every summer months and through different appointments. Among its programming has appointments like this, Pop CAAC, which this 2024 will take place from August 30 to September 7 with great musical proposals. Los Planetas, Luz Casal or Delaossa will liven up the nights at the end of the summer.
19. Municipal swimming pools in Seville
The swimming pools of Seville depend on the centers of the Municipal Institute of Sports (IMD), which reopened its facilities quickly in the face of the warning for high temperatures in late June. Since then they provide refreshing days to the citizens of Seville, province and surroundings. These are our favorites.
20. Summer cinemas in Seville
The summer reserves the nights to offer the most refreshing plans and promises a traditional attraction designed for all profiles. The thought of pipes, small packets and folding chairs takes us directly to the summer cinemas, magnetic and incombustible year after year. Lovers of the seventh art are in luck with the arrival of the first summer programs, but so are those who like to chat in the fresh air and take a good pipe to the gullet, projection through. The Sevillian sky will be witness of this cinematographic season by the hand of these summer cinemas in the neighborhoods of Seville and nearby municipalities.
21. Indoor plans for the month of August in Seville: Arcade Planet
Arcade Planet was born from the passion of five collectors of retro video games, who have spent six years moving to Dos Hermanas the universe of the arcade machines of the 80s . And in this sense, they have created almost without realizing it, the largest video game show in Spain and one of the most important in Europe in the Sevillian municipality.
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