Are you coming to Sevilla for a study abroad semester? You’ve come to right website! DiscoverSevilla is a unique travel agency that specializes in group excursions to places in Spain, Morocco and Portugal and the latest insider information and local knowledge so that travelers can maximize the experience of their stay in Sevilla and truly get to know the local culture.
Coming to Sevilla from January to May? Do not forget to bring the following:
- Bring warm clothes, since it’s a bit cold in the mornings and nights. It’s a different cold than what you’ve experienced before. Even though the temperature is not low, the weather is cold outside.
- Bring winter pajamas and house shoes. Spanish families never walk in the house without house-shoes. They will look at you weird if you don’t wear them! If you don’t have them, don’t worry, you can get them in Sevilla for no more than 7€
- If you are planning on going out to discover Sevilla’s best night clubs and bars, make sure you bring more than sport clothes. Spanish people dress up really nice when going out and there are always bouncers at the bars and the clubs, so if you don’t dress up nice enough you won’t be able to get in anywhere!
- During the day, when going to the university, people dress more casually, even though Spanish girls dress nicely all day long (you don’t have to worry about it). Bring comfortable clothes.
- Only bring enough toiletries to hold you over until you get settled with your host family or apartment. Bringing more than that is unnecessary weight in your luggage, as all of these things can be purchased easily in stores around Sevilla.
- When walking from your home to your university and back, you’ll realize that no one wears a backpack. Everyone uses different bags to carry books and stuff. If you’d like to feel European when living in Spain, the first thing you have to do is leave your backpack at home and buy a bag in Zara, H&M, Mango, or El Corte Ingles. Americans carry their things on their backs; Spanish people, on the side.
- If you’d like to learn Spanish faster, try not to listen to your Ipod while walking from place to place. You can hear Spanish everywhere you go, and if you listen to your music instead, it will take longer to learn (unless you listen to a Spanish radio station…then it’s great!). Leave your Ipod for when you work out or run around! You can buy a radio to listen to Spanish radio stations for 15€ anywhere.
- Do you like Soccer? We organize soccer games every Wednesday in a pitch that is not grass, so you might have to bring your sport shoes from home if you’d like join us! It’s totally free and absolutely no one is a pro! We all do that to work out, meet new people and just do something different than study and work. If you’d like to buy indoor-soccer shoes, you can get them here for 25€ (more or less).
- Working out: if you normally work out in a gym or you just like to run outdoors, then do not forget all your sport clothes! T-shirts, sports shoes, sweatpants, etc. There are plenty of gymnasiums in the city. We can recommend one if you like.
- Snowboard clothing: Spain, after Switzerland, is the country in Europe with most mountains to ski! So if you are into the ski world, and want to ski while here, do not forget to bring some gear. Even though you can rent anything from the ski fields, you might want to bring your own jackets, pants, goggles, gloves, etc. DiscoverSevilla will organize one trip to the slopes if you’d like to join us!
- There are plenty of shops in Sevilla if you want to look more European: there are H&M, Zara, Mango, Pull and Bear, Bershka and the outlet factories outside of Sevilla, where you can buy clothes from other seasons even cheaper. The shops do not close for siesta. Only small business close for siesta (normally from 2pm to 4.30pm).
- Sevilla has a lot of shoes stores within the city! If you are into that, then you’re coming to the right place.
- From April, the weather starts getting good and people will start using spring clothes. The weather in Sevilla gets really high but not till Mid-June. Bring shorts, a lot of T-shirts, sun-glasses, and sandals. In Sevilla it never snows.
- The greatest festivals on earth, we believe, are in April. DiscoverSevilla has trips overlapping some days of those events but we will come back to Sevilla with plenty of time for you to get the full experience! Click here to read more about the festivals.
- Do you have any other questions about what to and not to bring? Please feel free to contact us or just send us an email to info@discoversevilla.com
We hope you have an awesome flight to Sevilla and we look forward to meet you!
Your friends at DiscoverSevilla
+34 954 22 66 42
C/ Joaquin Guichot, 6. (Next to Plaza Nueva)
Office time: 10.00am – 9.00pm (we don’t close for siesta!)