Seville Hotels With Views
Seville concentrates its most significant landmarks — the Cathedral, La Giralda, and the Royal Alcázar — in a compact historic centre that makes choosing a hotel a meaningful decision. The properties on this list were selected for the quality and proximity of their views: rooftop pools that face the Cathedral directly, suite terraces with the Giralda in frame, and one hotel that breaks from that axis entirely to face Plaza de España.
The Views
Hotels We’d Book for the View Alone
Querencia de Sevilla, Autograph Collection
The room to ask for is a Terrace suite: upper floors face the top of La Giralda from this converted Banco de Andalucía building, reopened in 2022. The rooftop pool at El Mirador de Querencia delivers 360° Cathedral and city views that get better after dark.
EME Catedral Mercer Hotel
Ask for a Gran Deluxe Views suite: the Cathedral fills your private balcony at arm’s length. Above, La Terraza del EME keeps the same landmark in frame over cocktails; the rooftop pool is the quieter alternative for guests who’d rather take it in without a crowd.
Hotel Colón Gran Meliá
The Grand Premium RedLevel Room with Terrace earns its price: a private whirlpool with unobstructed La Giralda and Cathedral views, and access to the RedLevel Lounge. The top-floor infinity pool frames the same panorama from its longest side.
Hotel Alfonso XIII, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Seville
Worth staying for the architecture alone — the atrium blends Mudéjar, Gothic, and Renaissance craftsmanship in a building inaugurated by King Alfonso XIII in 1929. For views, the Reales Alcazares suite and Grand Deluxe with Terrace both reach La Giralda.
CoolRooms Palacio Villapañés 5 GL
The room to ask for is Suite El Torreón — 85m² in the dome of an 18th-century baroque palace, with coffered ceilings and a private terrace facing the Cathedral. A rooftop pool overlooks terracotta tiles in every direction, and the CoolSpa by Alqvimia handles the rest.
Palacio Pinello
Rated 9.4 on Booking.com and just 200 metres from the Cathedral, this 15th-century Santa Cruz palace keeps things deliberately small — 21 rooms, all for adults. The rooftop terrace has La Giralda and the Cathedral lit up at close range; the private tower can be reserved for dinner.
Hotel Casa 1800 Sevilla
Worth requesting a top-floor room: the terraces come equipped with jacuzzis positioned to face the Cathedral and La Giralda directly — adjustable to temperature year-round. The rooftop pool below delivers the same sightline for guests across any category.
Meliá Sevilla
The pool here faces a different Seville — Plaza de España and the María Luisa Park rather than the Cathedral quarter. At 130m², it’s the largest outdoor pool in any central hotel; The Level rooms add private terraces with whirlpool access and the same panorama.
Hotel Posada del Lucero
The rooftop pool sits at terrace level with views of the Parroquia de San Pedro Apóstol Tower and the Old Town roofline — ask for a session at sunset. The hotel operates inside a 16th-century national monument, two minutes’ walk from the Setas de Sevilla.
Mercer Plaza Sevilla 5 GL
Opened in April 2023 on Plaza San Francisco, this 25-room Mercer property keeps its rooftop — Terrace 1912 — among the quieter view terraces in the city: three levels over Seville’s spires and tiled rooflines, with a plunge pool for guests and tapas throughout.
Hotel Fernando III
The outdoor rooftop pool looks out over domes, minarets, and La Giralda in the middle distance; La Terraza bar shares the same level and serves tapas alongside. Worth asking about the Penthouse Apartment on Calle Céspedes — a private terrace with an Old Town sweep.
Hotel Casa Del Poeta
Request a room with a private balcony: selected categories face La Giralda, and the rooftop terrace extends the same sightline to all guests. The 17th-century inner patio is the other argument — live guitar in the evening, Andalusian tile underfoot, views above.
Eurostars Torre Sevilla
All 244 rooms have city views — the only decision is orientation. The Terraza Atalaya on the 37th floor is the highest rooftop bar in Andalusia: 180 metres above ground, 360° over the historic centre, the Guadalquivir, and the Aljarafe hills at sunset.
What Travelers Ask About Seville
The most direct sightlines belong to EME Catedral Mercer Hotel, where Gran Deluxe Views suites have balconies separated from La Giralda by the width of a street. Palacio Pinello stands just 200 metres from the Cathedral, with both landmarks visible from the rooftop terrace at night. Hotel Casa 1800 Sevilla keeps the same view from its rooftop pool and top-floor jacuzzi terraces throughout the year. Querencia de Sevilla, Autograph Collection, housed in the converted Banco de Andalucía building opposite the Cathedral on its most famous square, has upper-floor Terrace suites facing the top of La Giralda. For the widest panorama that takes in both monuments plus the full Old Town skyline, Hotel Colón Gran Meliá and its top-floor infinity pool cover the broadest horizontal sweep.
Several properties make a strong case. Hotel Alfonso XIII, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Seville is the most architecturally significant — a 1929 Mudéjar, Gothic, and Renaissance landmark where the Reales Alcazares suite and Grand Deluxe with Terrace both directly face La Giralda. CoolRooms Palacio Villapañés 5 GL is an 18th-century baroque palace where Suite El Torreón — 85m² in the dome — has a private terrace facing the Cathedral, with the CoolSpa by Alqvimia below. Querencia de Sevilla, Autograph Collection, opened in April 2022, places five-star rooms opposite the Gothic Cathedral in a renovated historic building with a rooftop pool at El Mirador de Querencia. For five-star height, Eurostars Torre Sevilla occupies the top 19 floors of Andalusia’s tallest building, with all 244 rooms facing the city.
EME Catedral Mercer Hotel’s rooftop pool is directly opposite La Giralda and the Cathedral — among the most photographed pool positions in the city. Hotel Casa 1800 Sevilla runs its year-round rooftop pool with the same Cathedral sightline, and top-floor rooms add private jacuzzi terraces at the same altitude. Hotel Fernando III has an outdoor rooftop pool that looks across Old Town domes and minarets toward La Giralda, with La Terraza bar at the same level. Hotel Posada del Lucero operates a rooftop pool overlooking the Parroquia de San Pedro Apóstol Tower within a 16th-century national monument. Mercer Plaza Sevilla 5 GL, opened in April 2023, has a guest-only plunge pool on Terrace 1912, three levels above Plaza San Francisco, with views over the city’s spires and tiled rooflines. CoolRooms Palacio Villapañés 5 GL adds a rooftop pool at palace level overlooking the terracotta skyline in every direction.
Eurostars Torre Sevilla is the unambiguous answer: it occupies the top 19 floors of Torre Sevilla, the tallest building in Andalusia at 180 metres. All 244 rooms face the city, and orientation — historic centre, the Guadalquivir, or the Aljarafe hills — is the only choice to make. The Terraza Atalaya on the 37th floor is the highest rooftop bar in Andalusia, with 360° views that are particularly striking at sunset when the city’s famous golden light is at its fullest. No other hotel on this page comes close in terms of altitude.
Meliá Sevilla is the principal option, located directly alongside the square and the María Luisa Park. Its 130m² outdoor pool — the largest of any central Seville hotel — faces the pavilion and Renaissance towers of the square from the sun terrace, and The Level room categories include private terraces and whirlpool baths overlooking the same panorama. This is a deliberately different angle on the city from the Cathedral-quarter hotels: Plaza de España, the park, and the surrounding institutional buildings rather than La Giralda and the Gothic skyline.
Yes. Hotel Fernando III is a four-star option dating to 1969 with an outdoor rooftop pool that looks across Old Town domes and La Giralda, alongside a rooftop bar at the same level. Hotel Casa Del Poeta is another four-star property with a rooftop terrace facing La Giralda from selected balcony rooms, set inside a 17th-century inner courtyard. Palacio Pinello, the most highly rated hotel on this page at 9.4 on Booking.com, is a four-star Santa Cruz palace with 21 rooms and a rooftop terrace facing the Cathedral and La Giralda at close range — the adults-only format and intimate scale distinguish it from the larger five-star properties. Hotel Casa 1800 Sevilla operates at a four-star price point with a year-round rooftop pool facing the Cathedral.
The Casco Antiguo — specifically the Santa Cruz and Alemanes districts — is where the most direct views of the Cathedral and La Giralda are concentrated. Hotels like EME Catedral Mercer Hotel, Palacio Pinello, and Hotel Casa 1800 Sevilla are within 200 metres of the Cathedral, and the sightlines from their rooftops require no distance. Querencia de Sevilla, Autograph Collection sits on the Cathedral’s most iconic square. For a different perspective, the Isla de la Cartuja location of Eurostars Torre Sevilla frames the entire historic skyline from across the Guadalquivir. For Plaza de España views, Meliá Sevilla is the only hotel on this list that faces the square directly.
Hotel Casa 1800 Sevilla is the clearest case: top-floor rooms include private terrace jacuzzis positioned to face the Cathedral and La Giralda directly, with water temperature adjustable year-round. Hotel Colón Gran Meliá offers Grand Premium RedLevel Rooms with Terrace, where a private whirlpool faces both landmarks unobstructed. CoolRooms Palacio Villapañés 5 GL adds the Suite El Torreón with a standalone bathtub and private terrace access at palace-roof level. For La Giralda sightlines from a suite-level terrace, the Reales Alcazares suite at Hotel Alfonso XIII, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Seville delivers the same view in a 1929 landmark setting.
Querencia de Sevilla, Autograph Collection opened in April 2022, following a 35-million-euro conversion of the former Banco de Andalucía headquarters into a Marriott Autograph Collection property directly opposite the Gothic Cathedral. Mercer Plaza Sevilla 5 GL followed in April 2023 — 25 rooms on Plaza San Francisco with the Terrace 1912 rooftop, the second Mercer Hotels property in Seville alongside the long-established EME Catedral Mercer Hotel. CoolRooms Palacio Villapañés 5 GL opened under the CoolRooms brand in 2019, one of the more recent boutique luxury arrivals in the Old Town, alongside Palacio Pinello, which has operated in its 15th-century Santa Cruz palace for longer but maintains one of the highest guest scores in the city.