Seville is a beautiful in southwestern Spain. Two hours drive on the motorway from the Portuguese. Its the capital of the region and has excellent transport links to other areas. There is a twice-daily bus service to the Algarve starting in Lagos and last bus returning there in the evening. There is a rail service from Seville is extensive serving cities of Cordoba, Malaga, Madrid and others. The main Train Station is Santa Justa and it is the 3rd largest in Spain accommodating 8 million passengers each year. Easter ceremonies in Seville are a wondrous sight.
Flights into Seville are from varied cities in Europe. Ryanair fly there from a number of locations.
Internal transport within the city is modern and efficient.
The Seville Metro in Spanish Metro de Sevilla is an 18-kilometre light metro network serving the city of Seville, and its metropolitan area. Very similar to the Luas system in Dublin. The system is totally independent of any other rail or street traffic. All 22 stations were built with platform screen doors.
It was the sixth Metro system to be built in Spain, after those in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Bilbao and Palma de Mallorca. Currently, it is the fifth biggest Metro company in Spain by number of passengers carried – it carried 16 million p
The Metro de Seville began construction in 1974 with three proposed lines, covering only the city of Seville:
Line 1:
Stops: La Plata, Puerta Jerez, Plaza Nueva, Plaza del Duque, Alameda, Macarena, Pino Montano.
Line 2:
Stops: Santa Clara, Polígono San Pablo, Alhóndiga, Plaza del Duque, Marqués de Paradas, El Tardón, Rubén Darío.
Line 3:
Stops: Heliópolis, San Bernardo, Menéndez y Pelayo, Recaredo, Macarena, Cartuja.
The project was cancelled in 1983 for political reasons with the budget from the central government reassigned to other infrastructure in Andalusia by the newly created Junta de Andalucía and also to the Bilbao Metro project instead, after 5 Billion Pesetas had already been spent. The official reasons given were fear that historic buildings might be damaged and economic viability.
In 1999 a new metro project was started by the Seville Metro Corporation founded by a former mayor of Seville. It was scheduled to be completed in 2006, but only began operation on 2 April 2009.
The new a network covers Seville and its metropolitan area with 1,500,000 inhabitants formed by four lines, all of them, completely independent of other traffic.
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