As much as you think we have summer ahead of us, the month of August passes like a sigh and the threatening September is just around the corner. We don’t want to discourage anyone, that’s why we come with the hottest plans of the month. We don’t want to stay at home.
1. 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 Coldplay at the Aquarium of Seville (August 10)
- Spy movie soundtracks at the luxurious Hotel Alfonso XIII (August 17)
- The best of Queen by candlelight (August 17)
- Coldplay vs Imagine Dragons by candlelight at the Alfonso XIII (Aug. 23)
- Vivaldi’s Four Seasons by Totem Ensemble surrounded by candlelight (August 23)
2. Paris Olympics: when do Sevillian athletes compete?
One of the undisputed events of this summer are the Olympic Games in Paris, which bring together a vast number of sporting events. Throughout the month of August, there are competitions for all tastes and watching them, from home or in the bars that screen them, seems one of the best plans for the coming weeks. To be more specific, we tell you when the Sevillian athletes participate.
3. The pavías of Tomares
Tomares makes the most of its nights and recovers ‘Las pavías’, its popular event dedicated to hake and codfish soldiers. 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.
4. 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 the 29th at 21:30 hours.
5. Perseids 2024: when to see the Tears of San Lorenzo
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 that starts this Tuesday, July 2. An organization that began its journey in late 2012 and that gives us events like this.
7. 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 14.
The XXV edition of Night in the Gardens of the Royal Alcazar of Seville will continue to be held the next days from Monday to Saturday. Access for visits to the gardens will be through the Puerta de la Alcoba, located in the Paseo de Catalina de Ribera, in the Murillo Gardens, at 21:00, while the concerts will start at 22:30 hours and will not have a break.
8. 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.
7. Dramatized visits to the Royal Alcazar
The Real Alcázar of Seville joins the coming summer activities in the city and prepares a new cycle of dramatized night visits. It is a project that will have four passes every Thursday, Friday and Saturday of summer.
The appointment is in charge of the Classic Theater Company of Seville, which has prepared a visit on texts by Alfonso Zurro about the forgotten women of Seville.
9. How to visit Italica: its summer nights are back.
Summer in Seville stipulates to concentrate in the nights the best cultural plans under the stars. As usual at this time, the amphitheater of Italica recovers free guided tours to the architectural complex throughout the summer nights.
The activity in Itálica, with prior reservation and free of charge, is called Venationes en Itálica (Venationes in Itálica). The animal hunts in the amphitheater and will be held on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in July and August.
10. The most awaited premieres
The summer season does not necessarily stay away from big premieres. Throughout the month of June, movies like Gru 4: My Favorite Villain (July 3), Fly Me to the Moon (July 12), Deadpool and Wolverine (July 25) await us in theaters.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. Terraces with swimming pool
We solve one of the great unknowns of Seville: why the city continues to receive large numbers of tourists in summer if it is well known internationally that Seville in summer is hell. The answer is given by these hotels and other spaces with swimming pools on their terraces, amazing views and refreshing cocktails that will make you fall in love with the city at any temperature.
15. Noctaíra (To be confirmed 2024)
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.
16. Pop CAAC
The Andalusian Center of Contemporary Art becomes a musical oasis every summer month and through various events. Among its program is Pop CAAC, which this year 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.
17. 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 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.
18. 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 cool 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.
19. Indoor plans for the month of August in Seville: Arcade Planet
Arcade Planet was born from the passion of five retro video game collectors, who have been bringing the universe of the arcade machines of the 80s to Dos Hermanas for six years. 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.
Bonus track: a getaway with a concert in front of the sea?
The last Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Apple concert session comes to the south in style on Thursday August 22 and will do so with an exclusive concert by Hens, DJ Set, a glass of Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Apple and tapa at sunset included in the ticket, and it will be an unforgettable date in one of the liveliest Beach Clubs of the coast of Cadiz: Atenas Playa in Playa La Barrosa .
A getaway to an incredible environment, and tickets are already available at Fever.
You may also be interested in: What to do with children in Seville: original plans for the whole family.