Oct 15, 2025
Entertaining and informative - Excellent guided tour of Italica and the local monastery. The coach was very comfortable and the guide, Miguel, spoke superb English and was very knowledgeable and entertaining about the ancient city of Italic and its history. It is not as well persevered as Roman ruins in some other places because it has only been valued for its historical importance in relatively recent times, but there are some beautiful mosaic floors (reconstructed) and the amphitheatre is spectacular. The monastery was also worth seeing and was beautiful inside despite looking almost derelict from the outside.
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Oct 8, 2025
Highly recommend - Great tour - would highly recommend. Plenty of time in Italica to see everything. Tour guide was kind and knowledgeable. Bus was clean and comfortable.
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Sep 19, 2025
An excellent time with Jose Luis - A magnificent site with exceptional mosaics. All this very well conducted and explained by Jose Luis, very good guide.
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Sep 17, 2025
Italicia - Brilliant visit - essential viewing for people who like history - Catch public bus from Seville Plaza de Armas - bus will be destination Santaponce - pay cash only to driver - £1.70 - 30mins trip - Italica Admission £1.90 - toilets on site at entrance - very clean.
Great place to wander about - Spanish /English listings throughout
Not a lot of shelter. Bring water if travelling hot season. Cyprus trees provide some shelter along some streets. Small visitor center also.
Bars/ Cafes opposite entrance for coffee, meals, drinks
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Sep 11, 2025
Italica’s historical significance in the Seville area - Italica, the site of an ancient city near Seville, is amazing. Hard to believe the buildings are still in evidence from circa 200AD and beyond. Our tour guide Jose Luis brought the are to life with his knowledge of the history and the usage of the various areas. The amphitheater is incredible and so was the nearby monastery Isidore. Thanks Jose Luis for a most informative trip.
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Sep 6, 2025
Emilio the guide, fantastic - We loved the guided tour, Emilio is very nice and friendly, made the visit very enjoyable and explained everything very well.
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Aug 16, 2025
Italy - Wonderful experience in Italica with the guide Carlos León, who explained in a clear and very exhaustive way not only what we saw but completing with anecdotes and very interesting historical information. It made this experience complete. I recommend it to everyone. Thank you León
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Aug 15, 2025
Italica and our guide - We loved Italica, a city with a great past, and a guide, Nacho, super nice and friendly q infected us that passion for history. We really liked its naturalness and closeness. A very positive and recommended experience
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Aug 24, 2025
Italica city is amazing monastery is boring as hell - One of the tour guides never showed up so our poor tour guide had to combine both the Spanish and English group, doing both tours at the same time and she did this seamlessly. Swapping paragraph by paragraph between between English and Spanish she took the challenge as a champ and covered the whole tour flawlessly. The city was absolutely incredible, what has been excavated is in incredible condition and our guide was a wealth of information. Felt like a behind the scenes tour with excavation being conducted while we were there, I’d love to come again in the future once the city is finished just to see the difference. Easily took half the day and was one of my Seville highlights. The monastery was so boring and unnecessary, I’d recommend just staying on the bus for that part :)
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Oct 7, 2025
Italic well, he guides very badly - How important is a guide to ruining an excursion? A lot.
Before you start writing this review, I suggest that the Naturandia Enterprise and Civitatis go undercover when this guide is working, to judge for themselves.
Excursion to Italica with two guides, one for the English group (Carlos León) and one for the Spanish group (also called Carlos).
I have no complaint from the Carlos guide who was taking the "English speaking" group, because after visiting Italica and two couples left the excursion, we decided to request to join his group for the visit the Monastery of San Isidoro del Campo even if the visit was in English. Everything went very well and we appreciate you knowing what you were talking about and not interpreting the story your way.
Our guide:
You can't go saying that vomiting was where you "vomited," since vomiting refers to the aisles or entrances where people walked in a show, and the meaning expanded to include places of entry and exit of people.
- You can not go saying in front of the replica of the bronze Lex Gladiatoria plate that the original is in the "antiquarian" of Seville, when the original is in the National Archaeological Museum.
When asked if Italica predated or post-Mérida, he told us that it was about "two years" apart, when Italica was founded about two centuries earlier.
He can't go saying that Trajan killed Adriano, because he didn't.
And if you both had "penchant" for young men there are ways and means of saying it.
This is just a small sample of this gentleman's comments.
Apart from the fact that as I have already mentioned, the group lost interest in explanations and two couples left the excursion in Italica without finishing it.
Anyway, a ruined excursion. I have done many excursions when I travel, and the theme is not that the guide likes you more or less, that he knows more or less, the problem is that he invents and does not even manage to maintain the attention of the group.
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