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Seville’s
April Fair
Learn Spanish in Spain, Seville
 The
calendar of Seville has two must dates for our foreign student
of Spanish who wishes to immerse himself in Spanish culture and
popular customs: Semana Santa and the Feria de Abril or April
Fair, only two weeks apart from each other. Semana Santa, at the
end of March or beginning of April, and the Seville’s April
Fair, as its name indicates, always in April. Once the Seville
April Fair is over, it takes one year for the city to recover
from this one week, day and night long party, where more than
a million people from Seville and other parts of Spain participate
every year.
The name “feria” originally meant
open market and so was the Seville April Fair during the nineteenth
century: a market where people sold and exchanged their products
and animals. Nowadays the April Fair is a popular party where
the whole city of Seville participates
 Seville
April Fair takes place on an open site, which for this week is
occupied by over 1.000 bright coloured canvas tents put up for
the occasion, streets aligned with orange trees and named after
famous bullfighters, about a million light bulbs and paper lanterns,
beautiful Andalusian horses, men and women in popular costume,
and a local variety of flamenco, “Sevillanas”, which
people sing and dance day and night. Not to forget the “fino”
o “manzanilla” sherry: the fuel that keeps the party
alive.
It is interesting to note that unlike in other
parts of Europe or even Spain, in Seville these popular fiestas
and local folklore are still fully alive and everybody participates.
Seville is unique in this aspect and we fully recommend it as
a privileged city of Spain to learn Spanish and the culture.
During the week of the April Fair, Giralda Center-Spanish
House offers regular Spanish courses as part of the year round
short and long term program of Spanish studies.
Students from all over the world can take advantage
of our intensive Spanish courses and accommodation in downtown
Seville in Barrio de Santa Cruz, the historical quarter where
you will find the school. Spanish courses are held in the morning
and our students can participate in the social program in the
afternoon and evening to enjoy Seville April Fair. Giralda Center-SH
offers Sevillanas dance classes. If you can manage to learn a
few steps of this simple dance, your enjoyment and full participation
in the party will be assured, you will feel part of the Spanish
people.
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Learn Spanish
in Seville and visit cities such as
- Cordoba and the Mezquita (mosque)
- Granada and the Alhambra
- Trekking on the Ruta de los Pueblos Blancos (route
of the White Towns): Ronda and Grazalema
- San Fermines in Pamplona
- Weekend in Morocco.
- Get to know Madrid and the Prado Museum
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