El Arenal
Mercer Sevilla
An intimate five-star boutique hotel in a late 19th-century mansion in El Arenal, with a rooftop terrace and pool for guests.
- Mansion from 1880
- 12 rooms
- Rooftop pool
- 420 m to the Cathedral, in a straight line
Hotel guide · Santa Catalina, Seville
Hotel Palacio Villapanés
An 18th-century palace of forty-eight rooms, with a roof terrace looking to the Giralda.
Palacio Villapanés at a glance
- Neighbourhood
- Santa Catalina, on Calle Santiago in the old city
- The building
- A Sevillian baroque house-palace of the first third of the 18th century
- Category
- 5 Estrellas con calificativo Gran Lujo, Andalusia's tourism register
- Rooms
- 48 rooms and suites on the register; the hotel lists 50
- Pool and spa
- A plunge pool on the roof, and a spa with sauna and Turkish bath
- Address
- Calle Santiago, 31, 41003 Sevilla
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01Is it for you?
Is Palacio Villapanés right for your stay?
- Why choose it
- It is a palace and it is small: forty-eight rooms around a courtyard of scalloped arches on marble columns, built in the first third of the 18th century for a naval officer, with a roof terrace that looks across the tiled roofs to the Giralda.
- Who it suits
- Couples who want an 18th-century palace at a small scale, with a spa and a small pool on the roof terrace.
- What to consider
- The pool on the roof is a plunge pool, not one to swim in, and the spa area is for adults and children over sixteen. The Deluxe and Premium rooms take no extra bed.
02The hotel
The hotel and its rooms
Palacio Villapanés is a Sevillian baroque house-palace on Calle Santiago, built in the first third of the 18th century for the naval officer Manuel López Pintado. Its courtyard is the centre of it — scalloped arches on slender marble columns around a chequerboard marble floor — and a lookout tower still crowns the façade.
On the roof there is a terrace with a plunge pool, looking across the old tiled roofs to the Giralda; below it are the spa, the gym, the orange-tree patio and the restaurant, Los Rincones del Marqués.
For the city around it, our Seville travel guide covers what to see and when to go, and where to stay in Seville sets out the areas with our hotels compared side by side.
Rooms and suites
Forty-eight rooms on Andalusia’s tourism register — the hotel’s own pages list fifty — in four categories, all different because the building is a palace. Deluxe (eighteen of them, 25–35 m²) and Premium (seventeen, 30–50 m²) take no extra bed. Palace rooms run 40–70 m², and there are six suites of 50–70 m², each named — Maestro, Palacio, Villapanés, Sevilla, Marqués and Torreón. Rooms look over the city or into the courtyard, and keep antique elements such as the wooden floors alongside contemporary furniture.
The hotel publishes rooms adapted for people with reduced mobility but does not say how many or in which categories, and it publishes no bed configurations. If a particular outlook, bed configuration or step-free access matters to you, tell us when you enquire and we will confirm it with the hotel for your dates before anything is booked.
On the practical side: parking is on request, with valet parking and a Tesla charger, there is room service around the clock, and the hotel will arrange transfers.
At the hotel
Facilities
- A roof terrace with a plunge pool, looking over the old city
- A spa with a sauna, a Turkish bath, a jacuzzi, contrast showers and treatment cabins — access included for guests, for adults and children over sixteen
- A gym with Technogym and Kinesis equipment
- Two courtyards to sit in: the colonnaded central patio and the orange-tree patio
Eating and drinking
Los Rincones del Marqués is the hotel’s restaurant, under chef Jorge Cortés, and the Patio de los Naranjos Bar serves in the orange-tree patio. The old city is on the doorstep for everything else, and we book tables.
03Location
Where Palacio Villapanés is
Palacio Villapanés stands on Calle Santiago in Santa Catalina, in the north-east of the old city. The map shows it with what is around it: the parish church of Santiago a few doors away, the Casa de Pilatos just to the south, the Plaza de San Leandro a couple of minutes west, and the Palacio de las Dueñas further north. For the city itself, see our Seville page.
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Palacio Villapanés
Iglesia de Santiago
Casa de Pilatos
Plaza de San Leandro
Palacio de las Dueñas
04Alternatives
Other featured hotels in Seville
More hotels from our Seville selection, each with a different character. Distances are in a straight line to the Cathedral; Palacio Villapanés is 870 m away.
Santa Cruz
Hotel Alfonso XIII
Landmark grandeur: Seville's famous 1929 grand hotel, with a colonnaded courtyard restaurant and an outdoor pool.
- Built for the 1929 Exposition
- Five-star Gran Lujo
- Outdoor pool
- 490 m to the Cathedral, in a straight line
San Bartolomé
Las Casas de la Judería
A four-star heritage hotel spread across 27 connected houses and more than 40 patios in the old Jewish quarter.
- 27 connected houses
- More than 40 patios
- Giralda from the roof
- 540 m to the Cathedral, in a straight line
05Planning
Planning a stay with Avelia
After discussing your plans, we prepare a tailored proposal with a quoted trip price and clear inclusions. Once you approve it and complete the agreed booking requirements, we confirm your arrangements, coordinate the details and support you while you travel.
How we choose hotels. For their size and character before their brand, and for how they suit the way you travel. No hotel is on our list simply because it sits on a preferred-partner programme. More in our story
Peace of mind
- Clear before you commit. A written proposal with a quoted trip price and clear inclusions, before any payment.
- Financially protected. When your stay is part of a package trip, your payments are covered against our insolvency by a guarantee with AXA. A hotel booked on its own is not a package.
- One point of contact. From the first conversation to the last day, with support while you travel.
Experiences we can arrange
- Private guided visits to the Cathedral, the Alcázar and the old town, on request
- Restaurant reservations across Seville
- Private transfers to and from Seville, and onward through Spain
- Day trips to Córdoba or Ronda, subject to availability
- Tables, tickets and the details around them
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