Seville is located to SW of the Iberian Peninsula, in the center of the Community of Andalusia.
Seville, capital of Andalusia, are the fourth city of Spain as far as the number of inhabitants. This account with 704,114 people in the metropolitan area. The total population in the capital and the 104 towns of the province is of 1,758,720 inhabitants distributed in an area of 14,042 kilometers square.
Seville can be considered, without doubt, artistic, cultural, financial, economic and social the center of the south of Spain.
To only 6 meters on the level of the sea, in the heat of Fertile valley and Countryside of the Guadalquivir river, and to borders of this one, conform an urban sprawl that extends towards the Aljarafe, the Salt marshes, the National Park of Doñana, the North Mountain range and the South Mountain range.
Seville has Mediterranean climate, with an average temperature annual of 26º C in summer and 12º C in winter, with smooth breezes that blow during all the spring and the summer. Invier to us they are smooth and the little rainy autumns (annual average precipitations: 534 mm), counting on higher temperatures during the summer. His almost 3,000 hours of sun throughout the year, they cause that the climate of Seville can be considered almost perfect at all the times of the year.
Seville, one of the great European cities, in which the urban dimension is in tune with the rural comforts, is at the present time the city better communicated of Spain. Their dowries and strategic situation form it like last great the metropolis of the South of Europe.
Characterized by an accessibility very varied and efficient, Seville has become not only a tourist destination but also the best door of Andalusia.
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The Guadalquivir has a port of first category, being the only fluvial port of Spain. It maintains an intense traffic, as much of tourist cruises as of regular lines of merchandise.
The railway station of Santa Justa, projected by Sevillian architects Cruz and Ortiz, has received several European prizes. It constitutes an important knot of connections between the capital Andalusian and the rest of the Independent Community, Spain and Europe. In her the railway axes of Madrid come together, Malaga and Granada. In addition it counts on the services of the Train of High Speed (BIRD) that it has placed to the center from less than two hours and average Seville to of the one of Madrid and to only 40 minutes of Cordova.
The construction of a new road network has been fundamental to clear an historical center completely asphyxiated by the vertiginous growth of the traffic.
The new Airport the International of San Pablo, builds of the architect of international reputation Rafael Moneo, is located to only 10 km of downtown. Specially it was designed so that it could receive up to eight million travellers per year and offers regular flights with the main European and Spanish capitals.
The network of railcars of regional reach, as well as a renewed system from accesses to the city, with fast circumvallations, accurately connects all the neuralgic points of the city and their environs. This way, Seville becomes one of the Spanish cities better communicated by highway, having connections by freeway or railcar with all the capitals Andalusian, as well as with Madrid and Portugal.
The infrastructures of telecommunications in the metropolitan area of Seville have registered a spectacular advance, as they show some of the facilities of the city: the Communications center by Satellite of Carmona, the ISDN of Spain (Cartuja), the Station Base of Movable Telephony, the Control center of Videoconferencia and the International Communications center of Pineda, with four operative units.
