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Mercer Sevilla
Seville, Spain · Mercer Hoteles · Accessible Luxury
Twelve rooms in an 1880 merchant's palace on Calle Castelar, in El Arenal, the quarter of the opera house and the bullring. Antonio Cruz and Antonio Ortiz, the Seville architects who rebuilt the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, spent years turning the house into a hotel and kept the parts that carry it: the classical front, the marble staircase, the arched gallery of the piano nobile, and the Andalusian patio, now glazed over and hung with a chandelier. Up on the roof there is a small pool and the skyline of the old city.
- 11 rooms
- Opened 2016
- Neighborhood: Casco Antiguo
- Rooms from 376 sq ft (35 m²)
- Architect: Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos (2015-2016 hotel conversion of the 1880 Casa Palacio Castelar)
- Interiors: Mercer interior design team
About Mercer Sevilla
- The architects, Antonio Cruz and Antonio Ortiz, are the same pair behind the renovation of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and Seville's own Santa Justa station.
- Rather than leave the old service courtyard at the back, Cruz and Ortiz moved it to a new position on the building's main axis, so guests now walk through a patio on the way in.
- Expressionist canvases by the Catalan painter Agusti Puig hang through the public rooms as a house collection rather than decoration bought by the metre.
- With twelve rooms in a private palace, the whole hotel can be taken by one party, which is how a good share of its business arrives.
- Entry-level rooms start at 376 sq ft (35 m²).
History
Mercer Sevilla occupies the Casa Palacio Castelar at Calle Castelar 26, a bourgeois palacete of 1880 built in the neoclassical manner around a central Andalusian patio. Mercer Hoteles, a Spanish group that works almost exclusively in historic buildings, commissioned the conversion from Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos, the Seville practice of Antonio Cruz and Antonio Ortiz, whose work includes Santa Justa station and the renovation of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Drawings date from 2007, construction ran from 2015, and the hotel opened in 2016 as a five-star gran lujo with twelve rooms and suites across roughly 2,000 square metres.
The project kept the classical facade, the marble staircase and the galleries around the patio, and made two decisive moves: it relocated the old rear courtyard onto the building's main axis so that the ground floor reads as a route rather than a lobby, and it put a pool and terrace on the roof. A glazed lantern covers the main patio, with a classical chandelier beneath it and a contemporary one over the new courtyard. Mercer's in-house design team did the interiors and hung a collection of expressionist paintings by Agusti Puig.
The setting
El Arenal is the strip of old Seville between the cathedral and the Guadalquivir, historically the river port, and today the quarter of the Maestranza bullring, the Teatro de la Maestranza opera house and the Torre del Oro. The hotel is one street off the Plaza Nueva and the town hall, five minutes from the cathedral and the Giralda, and close enough to the ring that the whole neighbourhood changes temperature during the Feria. It is also where the tapas bars of Arfe and Adriano start.
Restaurants and bars
- Mercer cocktail bar — Bar
- Mercer lounge — Bar
- María Luisa Restaurant — Restaurant
- FIZZ Cocktail Bar — Bar
Amenities
- Personalized attention for events
- Customised menus with local products
- Oak floors
- Luxury furniture
- Queen and King size beds
- Egyptian cotton sheets 400 thread count
- Pillow menu
- Bathrobes, slippers and Molton Brown toiletries
- Hair dryer
- TV with international channels
- Coffee maker and kettle with complimentary coffees and teas selection
- Minibar
- Complimentary Wi-fi
- In-room safe
- Breakfast service
- Laundry service
Awards
- MICHELIN One Key (2026)
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