If you ask someone from outside Seville about neighborhoods or areas of the city, in addition to the well-known Triana, Santa Cruz neighborhood or Macarena, Alfalfa will be among one of their answers. This bustling neighbourhood, located in the very heart of the city’s Historic Centre, has been one of the favourites for many years by tourists and right where we have our Singular Virgenes and Singular Pilatos buildings.
The reasons? It is a neighbourhood with history full of corners and squares with a long past, but which also lives in the present and looks to the future. La Alfalfa is full of bar and nightlife areas, charming places for shopping and, in addition, it can be considered the kilometre zero of the Seville capital. That is why it is also very frequented by the Sevillians.
Singular Apartments has its own little corners in this popular area. These are the Singular Virgenes and Singular Pilatos buildings, both a few steps from the most outstanding monuments of the city and at the gates of the Santa Cruz neighborhood. A note before getting to know these Singular buildings: if you like Holy Week and want to know or relive Seville, these are your apartments as their location is unbeatable to enjoy the brotherhoods.
Singular Virgins or the reconstruction of a typical Sevillian house
The Singular Vírgenes building is perfect for immersing yourself in Sevillian life. Located on Calle Virgenes, in the heart of the Jewish quarter, it consists of four apartments that rebuild a typical Sevillian house around a charming central courtyard. With a modern, colourful and modern design, it has two penthouses that tend to make everyone who stays in them fall in love with them.
Macarena, Estrella, Candelaria -one-bedroom penthouse with terrace- and Triana -two-bedroom penthouse, also with terrace-, are the names of the apartments in the Singular Virgenes building, which are designed so that you only worry about enjoying yourself. These four accommodations are fully equipped so that you only carry the essentials in your suitcase.
Unique and special experience at the Singular Pilatos
Also in the Alfalfa area is the Singular Pilatos building. Located on Calería Street, it is made up of eight apartments with all the comforts that will make you have a ‘Unique Experience’. Spacious rooms, air conditioning, complete equipment, unique design… They are perfect for resting after a day of sightseeing in the city.
The orange tree patios, large mansions and the narrow streets that surround our apartments in the Singular Pilatos building, at the gates of the Santa Cruz neighborhood, will make you soak up the traditional culture of the city when you stay in them. You’ll want to repeat with us over and over again. You have up to eight options in this building: Almeria, Huelva, Jaen, Granada, Malaga, Seville, Cadiz or Cordoba. Yes, the apartments take the name of the eight Andalusian provinces. Which one do you want to start with?
A square and a neighbourhood with a lot to tell
Now that we have introduced you to our tourist accommodations in the Alfalfa area, we want you to get to know the neighbourhood a little better. Its streets and squares, and all the leisure options that are concentrated in them, invite you to enjoy them in company. Not surprisingly, it has been an area of meeting and commercial activity since Roman times, as its streets were home to the forum of the imperial era, which included temples, baths, public buildings and markets.
The Alfalfa, delimited by the Church of El Salvador and the Plaza de La Encarnación, in Roman times was the meeting point between the Cardo Máximo (main road that ran through the city from north to south) and the Decumano Mayor (which ran from east to west). In Arab times it was the ‘Alcaicer’, where wholesale trade was allowed. And, after the reconquest, it was used as a warehouse for animal feed, mainly alfalfa, so the best-known square in this neighborhood was renamed with this name.
Since then, other nominations have followed it, such as Plaza de la Carne, when a market was established there in 1914 with the pieces obtained after the hunting and farm animal parties; Plaza de Ensaladeros (in the mid-fifteenth century) because a vegetable market was located there; in the middle of the sixteenth century it was the Main Butcher’s Shop of the City; from 1815 it was the Plaza del Boquete; it was also known as Espartería de la Alfalfa… that is, it took the name of the merchants’ guild that it hosted at the time, as did its neighbors Plaza del Pan or Plaza de la Pescadería, for example. Although it was also called Plaza del Infante Don Fernando, Plaza de Mendizábal or General Mola. Despite all these nominations, it has always been popularly known as Plaza de la Alfalfa, its official name since 1980.
But let’s not just look at the past, La Alfalfa is a neighborhood for enjoyment called by many the ‘neighborhood of ideas’ because of the peculiar businesses that have been sprouting in the area in recent years. Imported furniture stores, vintage clothing or hairdressers that are also art galleries join wineries and more traditional gastronomic spaces (and others not so much), which will make you want to return to this area of the city whenever you visit Seville. And with the accommodations of Singular Apartments we make it very easy for you.
Singular Virgenes Building
- Address: C/ Virgenes, 20
- Area: Alfalfa
- Number of apartments: 4
- Brief description: PB+2 building located at street level with vehicle traffic
- Small Community Playground
- No elevator
Pilatos Singular Building
- Address: C/ Calería, 10
- Area: Alfalfa
- Number of apartments: 8
- Brief description: PB+3 building located at street level with vehicle traffic
- Small Community Playground
- Lift
- One of the apartments (Granada) has access from the outside