Seville flamenco shows compared: which tablao, how long the show runs and what it costs

💡 The Short Version: Seville sells flamenco as an hour-long show. The theatre-style rooms sell the show without a table: the Museo del Baile Flamenco (€29, or €33 with the museum), Casa de la Memoria (€24) and Teatro Flamenco Triana. The dinner rooms are Tablao El Arenal (€71 with tapas, €86 with dinner, plus VAT) and El Patio Sevillano (€65 or €80, a 90-minute show). Tablao Los Gallos in Santa Cruz is €38 with a drink. In Triana, three rooms sell from €20 to €22 on GetYourGuide. Or book on GetYourGuide: Casa de la Memoriaad, sold by the venue, is €24.

The shows, compared

A tablao is a venue built for flamenco shows, often with tables for dinner. Adult prices are from each venue’s own site where it is shown; GetYourGuide prices are its lowest “from” prices.

A tablao stage at El Palacio Andaluz, with a singer and guitarists. Photo: Diego Delso, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Shows in a theatre or a museum

These rooms sell the show without a table.

Museo del Baile Flamenco

Calle Manuel Rojas Marcos 3, Santa Cruz · 1 hour · €29, or €33 with the museum · 17:00, 19:00 and 20:45

The museum, founded by the dancer Cristina Hoyos, stages “Puro Flamenco” on its own stage. The room opens 45 minutes before and the seats are not numbered, so arrive early. Ticket prices:

A change is free if you ask a day ahead, and a cancellation is free up to 48 hours before; inside 48 hours, 50% is kept. The museum also runs a Flamenco Matinée every day at 12:00, with six artists, since 2023; the museum entry is included. On GetYourGuide the Puro Flamenco Show with Optional Museum Ticketad is sold by the museum from €33, the combined ticket’s price. Seville museums has the museum’s own page.

Casa de la Memoria

Calle Cuna 6 · 1 hour · €24 · evening shows

Casa de la Memoria stages the show in a theatre in a building that dates to the 15th century. The general ticket is €24, students and residents pay €20 and children €15, and the show is not recommended for children under 6. Shows run in the evening, from 18:00 and 19:30, with extra shows at other times in some seasons. The Casa de la Memoria show on GetYourGuidead is sold by the venue at €24.

Teatro Flamenco Triana

Calle Pureza 76, Triana · 1 hour · daily · price on its booking page

A theatre of 120 seats run with the Fundación Cristina Heeren, and the takings fund the foundation’s grants. The show is daily, in Spanish and English; children under 6 are not admitted, and photos and video are not allowed (teatroflamencotriana.com). It is in Triana; see Triana for the rest of the neighbourhood.

Casa de la Guitarra and La Casa del Flamenco

Casa de la Guitarra: Calle Mesón del Moro 12 · from €20 · La Casa del Flamenco: Calle Ximénez de Enciso 28 · from €25

Both are in Santa Cruz and both sell an hour. Casa de la Guitarraad is the home of the guitarist José Luis Postigo: the ticket opens his collection of guitars, and the show is introduced beforehand. Its listing is sold by the venue at €20. La Casa del Flamencoad stages the show in the courtyard of a 15th-century palace with two dancers, two singers and a guitarist, and no microphones. Seats are not reserved, the doors open 20 minutes before, and children under 6 are not admitted.

Tablaos with a drink or dinner

Tablao Los Gallos

Plaza de Santa Cruz 11 · 75 minutes · €38 with a drink · 19:00 and 20:45

Los Gallos has run in the Santa Cruz quarter since 1966. Two shows a night, each 75 minutes with eight artists. The adult ticket is €38 with VAT included, and the site says a drink is included until 31 October. Children aged 6 to 11 pay €20 and under 6 are not admitted (tablaolosgallos.com).

Tablao El Arenal

One hour · €45 with a drink, €71 with tapas, €86 with dinner, plus VAT · 19:00 and 21:30

El Arenal has been in business since 1976. The first show is 19:00 to 20:00, with the room open from 18:00 for dinner or drinks, and the second 21:30 to 22:30, with the room open from 20:30. A children’s dinner is €55. Photography and video are not allowed (tablaoelarenal.com). On GetYourGuide the El Arenal showad is sold by the tablao from €45.

El Patio Sevillano

Avenida de las Razas 20 · 90 minutes · €30 to €80

The show runs 90 minutes without a break, every day. The ticket is €30 for the show only, €40 with a drink, €65 with a dinner of three cold and three hot tapas and a dessert, or €80 with an à la carte dinner. All include drinks with dinner (elpatiosevillano.com).

El Palacio Andaluz and La Cantaora

El Palacio Andaluz: Calle Matemáticos Rey Pastor y Castro 4 · from €36 · La Cantaora: from €80

El Palacio Andaluzad sells the show alone, with a drink or with dinner, and the ticket includes a visit to its Flamenco Dress Museum 30 minutes before the show. La Cantaoraad recreates the café cantantes of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with a general ticket with a cocktail, a VIP ticket with tapas and a dinner ticket from €80. Both are sold on GetYourGuide by the venues.

The stage at El Palacio Andaluz. Photo: Diego Delso, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Triana

Three more rooms sell an hour of flamenco from €20 to €22 on GetYourGuide, sold by the venues: Barakaad at Calle Pureza 107 (four artists, a drink included, at 19:00 and 21:00; children under 4 not admitted), Orillas de Trianaad (a small room with a view of the river; no photography, and late arrivals enter between numbers) and the Sala Almoraimaad (four artists and a drink). Triana puts them on a map with the market and the river.

With Las Setas

The operator of the Metropol Parasol sells the visit and a flamenco show at the tablao in the building as one ticket, from €48, with a preferred seat and a cocktail. Las Setas tickets has the rest.

A dance class and the peñas

Flamenco Dance Class with Optional Costumead by IShowU Sevilla is a one-hour class from €28 in a studio a 15-minute walk from the Cathedral, with a shawl and a red flower, or a scarf and a black hat, provided. Flamenco peñas, the members’ societies, sometimes open recitals to the public and some are free; each peña decides, and the rooms are small. Free things to do in Seville lists what else costs nothing.

Which show to choose

• A full hour in a theatre, no table: the Museo del Baile Flamenco or Casa de la Memoria.
• A show with the museum or a guitar collection: the Museo del Baile Flamenco at €33, or Casa de la Guitarra.
• A longer show: Tablao Los Gallos at 75 minutes, or El Patio Sevillano at 90.
• Dinner in the same evening: Tablao El Arenal, El Patio Sevillano, El Palacio Andaluz or La Cantaora.
• Cheapest: the Triana rooms and Casa de la Guitarra, from €20.
• A daytime show: the Flamenco Matinée at the Museo del Baile Flamenco, daily at 12:00.
• No photos: El Arenal, Teatro Flamenco Triana and Orillas de Triana.
• Children: Los Gallos takes ages 6 to 11; the Museo del Baile Flamenco, ages 6 to 12; Baraka, ages 4 and over.

Book the show for an evening after a morning sight: the Real Alcázar morning slot leaves the night free. Seville in one or two days shows where an evening show fits, What to book before you go to Seville covers the rest, and where to eat in Seville says where to eat first. The river-cruise operator’s evening walk ends at a flamenco venue: see Seville walking tours.