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VDLP - Info about Seville

ScouseKeith

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July 2023
Hi fellow pilgrims
I’m putting this out there to the pilgrim community. Having walked the Frances and Norte Caminos I’m planning my last Camino next June. What I need is some information about Seville. Is there a pilgrim office in Seville to get your passport and first stamp or do I need to order my own passport before I start. If there is an office do you know the address. I have looked online but I’m not having much luck.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Keith
 
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There is a pilgrim office in Sevilla. It’s in the Triana neighborhood, not far from the center. Walked past it, but never been in it. Maybe this is it:
Vía Plata
Calle Castilla 82, Local
Sevilla
España
Telfs: 954 335 274 ---- 696 600 602

This seems to be the website:

Atención al Peregrino

HORARIO DE ATENCIÓN AL PEREGRINO Mañanas: Martes de 10.00 a 12.00h Tardes: Lunes, Miércoles y Jueves de 18.00 a 20.00h Semana Santa y Festivos (locales, na...
www.viaplata.org

And I think you can get them at the Cathedral of Seville also.
 
It was closed when I visited it, had limited opening hours,
better buy ahead and get a sello in the Cathedral
 
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Hi Stephan
Really appreciate this, the attached map on the website also gives other route out of Seville.
 
Hi Keith
Many have reported on this forum previously that a credencial (passport) can be obtained at Hotel Simón - at the hotels’ reception desk.
I guess you’re also aware that it will be hot walking through Andalucía and Extremadura starting out in June.

The hotel is a popular pilgrim lodging also , being so central - just walk up the street to the cathedral.
  • Location: Hotel Simón is located at C/: García de Vinuesa, 19

  • Phone: The hotel's phone number is 954 226 660
 
Thanks Oz
I prefer walking in the summer easier o the legs
 
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I walked the Plata 3 times, and each time bought my credentials (you need 2 for the whole Plata / Samabrese) at Hotel Simon, and got my first stamp at the cathedral. The guards had the stamp ready last time, did not even had to enter the cathedral.
Dont forget to take a foto at the Jacobus statue at the cathedral, the official starting point.
The pilgrims office mentioned was open last time I walked by, so just entered for a chat - needed nothing - and then walked on.
Buen Camino!
 
Hi Keith.
you can pick your pilgram passport from the shop at the side of the Cathedral and get your first stamp from there...
I always have a spair passport, when I start a Camino just incase there isn't any .
That's just me...
 
Hi Keith,
You can pick up you Passport at the shop at the side of the Cathedral and get your first stamp there.
I always have a spair Passport, when I start a Camino just incase ,
You can't get one..
That's just me...
I done the V.D.L.P in sept/October.
I hope, I've been of some help.
Buen Camino Paul
 
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We bought out passport at the bookshop in the archbishops palace. You’ll see the palace when you go to the entrance of the cathedral for people with an online ticket, turn around and it’s on your left.

The first stamp you can get from the cathedral. Go to the entrance where you can buy a ticket for that day (when you leave the bookshop you go to the left) The Guards at the entrance took the paspoort inside to be stamped (if you don’t want to buy a ticket and go inside yourself).

Buen Camino!

I’m not sure you’re interested, but we met a Spanish lady on the plata who got a beautifull stamp in Sevilla. There’s a kathedraal in Triana, St Ana, where she got it. It’s not open a lot, closed when we passed it, but well, maybe you’re lucky.
 
Hotel Simon, close to the cathedral is part of the "Friends of the Camino" association and provides Camino passports/Credentiales. You can get your first stamp at the Cathedral. Just tap a security guard on the shoulder, show the credential and he'll escort you to the office where you can get your first stamp.
 
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I walked it a few years ago. I went to the pilgrim office in Sevilla and got a credential there. The people were really nice. But I was surprised how little information they had on the camino. No one spoke any English so I hope you can speak some Spanish. It is sooooooo hot on the VDLP in summer. Please carry alot of water and be careful. There is virtually no shade at all for long stretches of the first few hundred kilometers. I mean none. I froze one liter of water every day to keep my food cold and carried 2 other plastic liters plus the one i carried in my backpack and I started at the end of October and it was 90+ for about 10 days. It feels even hotter from the heat the earth emanates.
 
Stivandrer said:
It was closed when I visited it, had limited opening hours,
better buy ahead and get a sello in the Cathedral
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I was half way through typing this reply. I would recommend grabbing one from this site and then getting your first sello from the cathedral.

If you love collecting like I do I'd grab one from the tower near the fish markets too. its called; Capilla Virgen del Carmen.

I walked past this place a half dozen times when staying at Triana Backpackers.
 

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I haven't done the Via De Plata a lot but I have walked in April 2018 and in Mid May '23. I would love to do it again!

April it was cool to cold mornings, felt like single digets rising to warm during the day? It was years ago but i remember the cold. Never hot at mid day / afternoon, plesent low 20's? I as in and out of my rain gear a bit after Salamanca and I made heavy use of my umbrella on the way to and after Orense into Galicia.

On the flip side after getting in from the Via Serrana last year (almost 2 years now!) it was cool rising to warm to hot during the day. I switched my walking to early morning to miss the heat of the day. I kind of loved the heat and enjoyed sweathing under my bunnings straw hat. Also loved removing most if not all of the cold weather gear and dropping a kg or so in weight but I added water so it wasn't a win win scenario.

Literally stupidly carrying the specter of the Via Serrana and running out of water 3 times. If you want to try and select gear to the N'th degree check out Accuweather. I'd go minimal knowin that there are decathalons all along the route and you can restock or update as you go.

Happy walking mate.
 
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JustJack said:
I departed Seville on Apr 15 this spring, to avoid the heat. Ended up freezing my ass for two long weeks in May . Spain had a particularly cold spring this year apparently. So you just never know...
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Same here - left Sevilla on the 23rd of April, but already after 5 days got cold! Temperatures raised again but dropped just before Salamanca. As the forecast was very bad for the next few days (must have been the 2 weeks you mentioned) I took a bus south to Malaga, to walk the Mozarabe...

Returned in September to Salamanca, to finish 1st the Plata at Astorga, and then walked the Sanabrese to Santiago.
 
Other people have covered the credential side, I'd just like to mention, I hope you realise how hot it can be in June, up to 40C isn't unusual, you'll need to be prepared for that and I hope you already have experience of walking in those kinds of temperatures, otherwise it's going to be a shock. Also there'll be very few other people walking.

I would personally never walk the southern half of this Camino in summer. If I was you I would think careful about this and consider doing another Camino further north and save this one for a cooler season.

Seville - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Gerald
 
Very valid point - my first Plata I did from end of may till beginning of july, for one week plus I walked in 40+ degrees, one day (at the Arco de Carparra) at 47...
 
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Yes Gerald , I agree - I did point out the heat possibility to the OP for the period he’s chosen in #5.
Patrick1970 said:
beginning of july, for one week plus I walked in 40+ degrees,
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Yes - you just can’t be sure. No matter what the averages tell us. I don’t know how you could walk in those temps.


ScouseKeith said:
Thanks Oz
I prefer walking in the summer easier o the legs
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the OP responded to me though - so he is aware.
 
OzAnnie said:
I don’t know how you could walk in those temps.
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It was a bit unreal, especially when you grapped your water botle - naturally the water also had 47 degrees...
I walked with another older guy I met some days before, he had to quit the next day.

BTW, where in oz are you located?
 
Patrick1970 said:
It was a bit unreal, especially when you grapped your water botle - naturally the water also had 47 degrees...
I walked with another older guy I met some days before, he had to quit the next day.

BTW, where in oz are you located?
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Location shows on my avatar /profile . But I’m visiting USA presently.
 
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I couldn't agree more. I made that mistake in 2015, starting 1st June. (I used to live in the Middle East but never walked anywhere there lol)
It was already 36 deg C in Sevilla when we arrived (from 12 deg C in the UK) and got hotter! We had trekking umbrellas which were a life saver and I stocked up on hydrating powder (forget what it's called!) as my husband is definitely averse to walking in high temperatures. We carried 3L of water but often that wasn't enough and bear in mind in those temp., the water gets hot after an hour or so...
I wouldn't do it again.
PS A day or 2 before Salamanca, it turned cold and rainy! (I didn't like that either ;-))
 
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