The April Fair of Seville This 2025 is already officially running. As the tradition marks, More than 250,000 bulbs have been lit to give life to the fairgrounds at 00:00 on Tuesday.
A multitude of people presence on the cover of the April 2025 Fair, Seville EFE/Raúl Caro
The lighting night of the April Fair has fulfilled all the rites, starting with the Pescaíto dinnera gala meeting in the booths in which the protagonists are the anchovies, the squid and the shrimp tortillitas, among other delicacies.
A group of people celebrates the traditional “Pescaíto Dinner” at the April 2025 Fair of April EFE/Raúl Caro
Nor has the show by Sevillanas On the cover of the fair, with the mythical singers of Hípalis, who have reviewed a good part of their successes. After its performance, the Municipal Symphony Band of Seville has taken the stage to give way to the immensity of the ignition.
Las 25,000 cover bulbs They reach 254,000 if those of the entire fairgrounds are added, a real one for which more than 1,500 hours of work have needed and that has 1,049 booths.
Several people walk through the fairground after the traditional ‘Alumbrao’ EFE/Raúl Caro
A cover inspired by the Chilean Pavilion
This year’s cover, by the architect Pablo Escudero Gisbert, is Inspired by the Chilean Pavilion Raised on the occasion of the Ibero -American Exhibition of 1929.
With about 50 meters long and 40 high, the cover moves away for the first time in years of the traditional Sevillian regionalism: in 2024 it was inspired by the Mudejar pavilion of Aníbal González and in 2024 in the Plaza de España.
A person photographs the cover of the April Fair of Seville 2025 EFE/Raúl Caro
The inauguration has also served to honor the Gypsy people for the 600th anniversary of its arrival in Spanish territory, with activist Séfora Vargas explaining that “there are still many things to overcome, many rights that we have to continue achieving, but among all it is possible.”
The fair recovers its traditional format: from Monday to Sunday
The April Fair returns 2025 to its Traditional format from Monday to Sunday After the popular consultation of last May, in which 106,384 people voted and 52% opted to return to celebrate the fishing dinner on Monday night and close the booths on Sunday.
About three thousand agents of the National Police and the Civil Guard will participate in the Security and Traffic Device that will monitor the development of the April Fair of Seville, which has begun this midnight and extends Until May 11.
