Enclosure Convent Walking Tour

Paseando por Sevilla will offer you the unique opportunity in Seville to discover the enclosure convents and monasteries of the town. In this conventual walk of two hours, you will besides be able to taste the sweets which nuns privately make in the convents. The town of Seville possesses an important patrimonial wealth. In this recognized historical legacy, the cloisters of Seville occupy a distinguished place. 

Seville is characterized by its high number, to such a point that they notably contribute to define the features of some sectors of the historical town. The arcane thing, the sublime and heavenly thing are defined and characteristic marks of these religious enclosures which have always enjoyed the attention and the curiosity of tourists and people of Seville. 

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They are precisely attracted by that halo of mystery and mysticism that is hidden behind of the high walls of the convents and their small lattice windows that as guards, keep and secretly conceal the existence of nuns from whom people know nothing except that they pray and work, do penance and sacrifice themselves to offer their lives to Lord. 

The convent limits, determinates and constitutes the physic reality where the life of nuns exclusively develops, by carrying out their functional and vital cycles.


The peace of the cloisters, the austere and sacrificed life, the intimacy of the prayer and the devotion to the other people, are ways of living known to nowadays people. Paseando por Sevilla will show the visitor both the patrimonial wealth of the convents and the private and quiet life of the cloisters.

Visiting the choir of the church or going for a walk along the main cloister means a privilege at present, since for ages, these were considered enclosure areas exclusively assigned to the use of nuns.

From the seventeen enclosure convents that are nowadays in Seville, Paseando por Sevilla offers the unique possibility to visit eight of these convents; the Madre de Dios convent, Santa Maria de Jesùs, San Leandro, Santa Inés, Santa María del Socorro, El Espiritu Santo, San José de las Teresas and Santa Paula.

How better way of finishing our walks along the convents of Seville that tasting the delicious sweets that nuns make so wonderfully; Sweet made of sugar and egg yolk of San Leandro, rolls of Santa Ines, small sponge cake of the Socorro convent...

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