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Mercer Plaza Sevilla
Seville, Spain · Mercer Hoteles · Accessible Luxury
Two regionalist houses on the Plaza de San Francisco, looking at the plateresque flank of Seville's town hall: number 11 by Jose Espiau y Munoz in 1911, number 12 two years later, both raised for a confident city bourgeoisie and now stitched into one 25-room hotel. The conversion turned up a stretch of third-century Roman wall, which you can now look at over dinner at Shikaku, the Japanese room downstairs. It opened in 2023 with Robert De Niro's Nobu on the sign; when that partnership ended in 2024 Mercer, which had been running the place all along, put up its own name.
- 25 rooms
- Opened 2023
- Neighborhood: Casco Antiguo
- Rooms from 247 sq ft (23 m²)
- Architect: Jose Espiau y Munoz (Plaza de San Francisco 11, 1911-1912) and Juan de Talavera Heredia (no. 12, 1914); hotel conversion and interiors by daar Arquitectura
About Mercer Plaza Sevilla
- Builders found a third-century Roman wall while joining the two houses together. It was left exposed and now forms one side of the hotel's Japanese restaurant.
- The hotel opened in 2023 as Nobu Sevilla, Robert De Niro's brand, and was renamed Mercer Plaza Sevilla in August 2024 after the franchise ended. The operator never changed.
- Jose Espiau y Munoz, who designed number 11 in 1911, is the architect of the Hotel Alfonso XIII, the building most people picture when they think of Seville's regionalist era.
- The roof carries a solarium and a plunge pool lined in aquamarine tiles, and a second terrace faces the Cathedral and the Giralda straight on.
- Entry-level rooms start at 247 sq ft (23 m²).
History
Mercer Plaza Sevilla occupies three protected buildings on the Plaza de San Francisco and Calle Alvarez Quintero, behind the town hall in the historic centre. Number 11, known as the Casa Miguel Arcenegui or Casa Peyre, was designed by Jose Espiau y Munoz between 1911 and 1912 and is one of the clearer statements of Seville regionalism; number 12 dates from 1914, a work associated with Juan de Talavera Heredia and reformed in 1989, with its facade and front bay protected; Calle Alvarez Quintero 36 carries no separate listing but is built into the same complex. Both houses began as family homes for the prosperous bourgeoisie of the 1910s.
The conversion, by daar Arquitectura for the owner Millenium Hospitality Real Estate, runs to 2,725 square metres arranged around light patios in the traditional Andalusian manner, with reception, lounges, kitchen and gym on the lower floors. Archaeology came with the works: a section of third-century Roman wall was uncovered and kept on show. The hotel opened in 2023 under the Nobu Hotels flag, operated by Mercer Hoteles; when Robert De Niro's brand left in August 2024 Mercer renamed it Mercer Plaza Sevilla, its second five-star gran lujo house in the city. It has 25 rooms and suites, the street-level Bar Plaza for local cooking, the Japanese restaurant Shikaku beside the Roman wall, and two roof terraces.
The setting
The Plaza de San Francisco has been the civic heart of Seville for centuries, the square where the city held its markets, its bullfights and its autos-da-fe, and it is still where the Ayuntamiento stands with its sixteenth-century plateresque facade. The hotel looks at that facade from across the square. Plaza Nueva is next door, the Cathedral and the Giralda are three minutes on foot, Plaza del Salvador about the same, and Calle Sierpes, the old shopping spine of the city, starts at the corner. During Semana Santa every brotherhood in Seville passes through this square on the carrera oficial.
Restaurants and bars
- Mercer Breakfast — Restaurant
- Bar Plaza Restaurant — Bar
- Terrace 1912 — Restaurant
Experiences
- Rooftop terrace 1912 — Rooftop terrace with views over Seville's spires and tiled roofs, for tapas and sunset drinks.
- Explore Sevilla — City exploration, including walks through the Santa Cruz neighborhood and shopping in boutiques.
Amenities
- solarium
- cocktail bar
- rooms and spaces for private meetings and events
- 24-hour room service
- valet service
- daily turndown service
- personalized Concierge assistance
- valet parking
- airport transfers
- private tours
- flowers in your room
- car rental
- restaurant and show reservations
- museum, theatre and exhibition tickets
- babysitting
- hairdressing
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