Autumn is synonymous with culture in Seville
The days are getting shorter, a golden light bathes the city, and, from time to time, the cobbled streets glisten in the rain. Autumn is the month of arts and literature in Seville, the month of cinema and flamenco. Are you going to miss it?
Lights, cameras, flamenco!
The city has its own red carpet thanks to the Seville European Film Festival, the most consolidated and prestigious showcase for European cinema: premieres, presentations, auteur films, young films and emerging and established stars. In addition, in autumn Seville hosts the most important flamenco event in the world, the Biennial with capital letters, where tradition and innovation go hand in hand in a catalogue of shows not to be missed.
The city of letters
The autumn light invites you to stroll and read. Both plans combine perfectly at the Seville Book Fair, a cultural and participatory event for readers and writers. But if what you like is to rummage through old bookshops in search of curious, out-of-print and hard-to-find books, don’t miss the Antique and Second-hand Book Fair, where you’ll also find posters, magazines, engravings and real hidden treasures.
The most original Seville
The most modern Seville is present at Offf Sevilla, the festival of post-digital culture where creative minds from all over the world meet to share design, visual arts and communication. And if you want to discover its most secret corners like never before, sign up for the international architecture festival Open House Sevilla: visit the city’s emblematic buildings for free. And that’s not all! Theatre, dance, music and performance await you at the feSt Seville Performing Arts Festival, with its innovative and original proposals. And, in addition, the Guitar Festival and Alhambra Monkey Week put the musical finishing touch to a season full of events and activities.
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Great film legends such as Milos Forman, Mike Newell, Patrice Chéreau, Carlos Saura, Bigas Luna, Isabel Coixet, Agustín Díaz Yanes, Lucía Alemany, Christopher Lee, Valeria Golino, María de Medeiros, Colin Farrell… have walked the red carpet at the Seville European Film Festival.
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If storytelling is your thing, Seville hosts the Intercultural Oral Storytelling Festival in autumn, with workshops and shows for adults and families.
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Alhambra Monkey Week is the essential independent music event in our country.
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Traditionally, the Seville Book Fair was held in April, coinciding with International Book Day, but in recent years it has been moved to autumn.
