Fernwayer logoFERNWAYER
Explore Places
Journal
Map
This day
Any other day

Walking the Feria

Arrow

Seville | Spain

What is this?

You arrive at the González Hontoria park, where the feria is laid out as a temporary city — some two hundred casetas along avenues of sand, hung with farolillos. Your host walks you in, past the casetas of families, sherry houses, and associations, each with its own hand-built façade, and shows you how the fair works: who the casetas belong to, what is happening in the ring, how the day will unfold.

What makes this unique?

On your own, the feria is a beautiful crowd. Your host interprets the scene and provides context: which casetas are public and which belong to the sherry houses and the peñas; the five historic tents that survived when the city cleared the rest in 1985; the riders in traje corto and sombrero cordobés, and the women riding a la grupa. You learn to see the fair as a Jerezano does.

Location