
The month of December in Seville and, therefore, also Christmas, are synonymous with reunions, unavoidable appointments and a good amount of plans around these significant dates.
In order to approach the coming weeks with the best catalog of activities, we compile in the following lines the best leisure offer in the city. Ideas to enjoy with the whole family, events that are pure Christmas and other plans that will make December one of your favorite months in Seville.
Candlelight Christmas edition
Music and Christmas go hand in hand. The houses and streets of towns and cities are filled with Christmas carols and on January 1 we attend (telematically) the New Year’s concert in Vienna. But you don’t have to wait so long or go so far away to enjoy the magic of these Christmas melodies.
Candlelight designs these Christmas concerts (more and less Christmas) to delight us with the best live music. This Christmas you have a few unavoidable and very varied appointments to recover the Christmas mood that is so lacking in this twilight of 2024.
- Candlelight tribute to ABBA at the Aquarium of Seville (December 1)
- Tribute to Hans Zimmer at the Aquarium (December 7)
- The best of Queen at the Aquarium of Seville (December 8)
- Tribute to Julio Iglesias amidst hundreds of candles (December 14)
- Candlelight Christmas: Christmas soundtracks at the Casa de Salinas (December 20)
- Christmas classics at the Hospital de los Venerables (December 21)
- Magical soundtracks at the Aquarium (December 22)
- Candlelight premium: tribute to The Beatles at the Casa de Salinas (December 27)
2. Switching on the Christmas lights
That crowded Avenida de la Constitución, a huge number of cell phones ready to shoot the picture after the countdown is an image that we will not be able to enjoy this year.
In any case, Christmas will kick off with the traditional lighting, which in Seville takes place this year on December 2.
3. A whole compilation of Christmas plans

The cultural agenda is stirring in the face of the immediate flurry of activities and Christmas plans in Seville this 2023/24. The city shines with its own light on these dates so we have seen fit to bring together all these options that are open to us. Ice rinks, Christmas markets, amusement parks and much more.
4. Kinu launches a new tasting menu

It is crossing the shy shutter of Abd-El Aziz, which once had a notorious historical importance, and travel from the Almohad past of the city to the heart of Japan.
At Kinu, everything is marked by the protocol and details that distinguish Japanese culture. From the curtains that protect the interior of the restaurant, the irrashaimase with which the staff welcomes customers to the delicate, aseptic but welcoming image that Kinu projects.
5. Helarte Exhibition
The Cartuja Stadium in Seville hosts this exhibition, which can be visited from November 16 to January 12 and consists of a hundred ice figures.
6. Christmas Markets
Christmas markets in Seville conquer the avenues, squares and spaces that the city has prepared for the occasion. The city is decorated and receives the Christmas leisure full of novelties and without restrictions. The event will not miss the lighting, themed parks or ice rinks. An endless number of guaranteed plans among which stand out the picturesque Christmas markets, some of which are detailed below.
7. Inari

The Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones de Sevilla will host during the Christmas season an enchanted village in the purest Lapland style: ‘Inari’.
This theme park will land in Fibes thanks to the agreement signed between the Sevillian company planB and CONTURSA and will serve as an entertainment proposal during this important season.
8. Mangafest

Mangafest, the Festival of Culture and Digital Leisure of Seville, celebrates its next winter edition at the Palace of Congresses and Exhibitions of Seville (Fibes) on December 6, 7 and 8.
The event will be attended by actors, artists and creators of national and international content and a large number of activities for the whole family.
9. Perfect restaurants for Christmas lunches and dinners
December awaits and with it come the crowded stores, the turrones and mantecados and the center of Seville flooded with Christmas lights. But it is a month that also brings with it the eternal doubt: where to have Christmas dinner?
10. Movie premieres

Kraken the hunter (December 13), the eagerly awaited Parthenope (December 25) or Nosferatu (December 25) are premiering this month in the best cinemas. These and many other titles can be enjoyed at Yelmo Cinemas through Fever, spaces for true movie lovers.
11. Andalusian villages out of a fairy tale

Andalusia keeps in its extension landscapes, villages and monuments of extraordinary beauty. Some enjoy the fame they deserve, many retain the surprise factor despite appearing on the podiums of the guidebooks and others remain closely guarded secrets.
The splendor of this land does not take the traveler unawares and synthesizes gastronomy, nature and heritage in each of its destinations.
In this case, far from being rural mirages, we compile 5 unique jewels, Andalusian villages that seem to be taken (some literally) from a fairy tale.
12. Night route through the enchanted Seville
Stroll through the center of Seville and discover the events that shook its inhabitants. You will know a little more of the great history that collects the Barrio de Santa Cruz.
A guide will tell you about the events of Romans, Arabs, Jews and Christians and some mysteries and ghosts. 15 stops and an interpretation of the history of Seville.
13. Arcade Planet: 4 hours of video games from the 80’s
Arcade Planet was born from the passion of five collectors of retro video games, 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.