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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, it is SOOOOO nice with the smell of the orange blossoms everywhere. Sevilla, Granada, Córdoba, Málaga, Cádiz, will all be nice. The temperature can really vary--it can be 100 degrees with calima (dust storms) from the Sahara, or it can be 55 and raining. Make sure whatever accommodations you pick have heat and AC.

I would avoid Seville the week before Easter (Semana Santa) and the week of the Feria de Seville. That is March 24-30 and April 14-20 this year.

Sevilla is claustrophobically crowded for Semana Santa and with the Feria, everything shuts down in the city so people can go party on the fairgrounds on the outskirts of town--but the feria is all closed off to outsiders/tourists. It's all individual tents and you need an invite to get in--not at all like a country fair in the US (or frankly a feria anywhere else in Spain which are much more open, e.g. Malaga's feria).

Seville's city center in general is turning into Venice: there are more tourist apartments than residential apartments, the schools are closing for lack of children, all the supermarkets and cute little shops and public primary care clinics are being closed in favor of shops that cater to tourists selling overpriced bottles of water and English breakfasts. But the streets in the center are very clean and look like Disneyworld.

Okay, I am not selling Sevilla, at all, but you might as well go before they start charging admission to the Plaza de España (unheard of! it would be like charging admission to the National Mall in DC).

Seville's food is incredibly terrible (their special dish is pringá, which is like, pureed bologna spread on toast), and food poisoning is a real issue when dining out, regardless of the class of restaurant. Also recently restaurants and cafes have started overcharging tourists a LOT so watch your bill. Or just expect to be double-charged.
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