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Date Published: 14/11/2023

See the Seville Christmas lights and loads of musical and light shows 2023

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Seville is hoping to have one of the biggest Christmas programmes in all of Spain this year

See the Seville Christmas lights and loads of musical and light shows 2023

The Andalucía city of Seville is gunning to become the Spanish capital of Christmas this year, and to this end it has designed an “unprecedented” programme of Christmas lights, decorations and events.

The Christmas lights will be turned on in Seville on Saturday December 2, 2023, with iconic local sites like the Plaza de San Francisco, the Real Alcázar and Fibes among the 287 streets and squares that will be lit up until Sunday January 7, after the Three Wise Kings holiday.

This year, there will even be a spectacular audiovisual attraction that will be projected onto the Guadalquivir River. This audiovisual show will be projected on the Triana footbridge and at the Muelle de Sal. Called Navigalia, it will tell a Christmas story about Seville, and you can watch it from a specially erected stand that has space for 12,500 people.

The screenings, which last for 12 minutes, will begin on Wednesday December 20 and there will be three daily screenings: at 8pm, 9pm and 10pm. In addition, for the first time ever, the bridges of Triana, San Telmo and Los Remedios will all be lit up for Christmas.

Meanwhile, some of the city’s main thoroughfares, such as Avenida de la Constitución, Sierpes, Tetuán, Imagen, la Campana, Laraña, Alfonso XII, el Salvador and Asunción all have exclusive decorations that have been designed expressly for the city.

Christmas trees will be set up in the Puerta de Jerez, the Santa Justa train station, Avenida Emilio Lemos (in Seville East), the Plaza de Cuba, the roundabout leading to Torreblanca, the Parqueflores neighbourhood in the North district and the South Polygon.

In the Plaza de San Francisco, a large stage will be set up on which bell ringers, bands or school choirs will perform every day, while there are other shows taking place in Fibes from December 16, such as the ‘Inari’ Lapland show, and from November 28 to January 7, the Real Alcázar will open its doors for local musical shows.

Such is the prominence of Seville on the Christmas decoration and events calendar this year that the series of Spanish TV channels owned by Mediaset will broadcast the ringing in of the New Year from the city.

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