Nick O'Brien
@NickLovesSpain
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Daily insight into Spain's endless charm 🇪🇸✨
Joined August 2011
The best snails in the world are not in France... 🇪🇸✨
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Over the past couple of years, I’ve achieved practical fluency in Spanish. If I had to start learning Spanish again from zero, I’d do it completely differently…and probably learn 200% faster. (A thread 🧵)
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What’s one thing Spaniards do better than everyone else? 🇪🇸✨
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What do you think is the most underrated city in Spain?
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What advice would you give someone walking the Camino de Santiago? 🇪🇸✨
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What is your favorite insult in the Spanish language? 🇪🇸✨
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What town or village in Spain do you always recommend someone visit? 🇪🇸✨
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Where is your favorite place in Spain for a sobremesa? 🇪🇸✨
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The magic of Sevilla! I hope you enjoyed 🇪🇸✨ Cheers, everyone! Follow me @NickLovesSpain for daily insight into Spain's endless charm ❤️
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Few cities feel so alive. And few cities have given so much to Spain’s identity.
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In Sevilla, past and present don’t just coexist. They dance together. Roman columns stand next to flamenco clubs. Moorish arches echo with Christian bells. And golden light spills onto tiled patios.
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Writers, artists, and poets have all fallen under Sevilla’s spell. Carmen, Don Juan Tenorio, and even Figaro all walk its streets — in opera and in myth.
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Sevilla is also a city of celebrations. The Semana Santa processions are solemn and powerful: a river of candles and sorrow. Then, just weeks later, comes the Feria de Abril, an explosion of color, music, and dancing.
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More recent is the Metropol Parasol, nicknamed Las Setas (“The Mushrooms”). It’s a massive modern canopy made of wood: the largest wooden structure in the world.
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In the 20th century, Sevilla built one of its most photographed sights: the Plaza de España. A semicircular marvel of colored tiles, canals, and bridges. Made for the 1929 Ibero-American Expo.
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Either way, tapas are a Sevillian art. Salmorejo. Jamón ibérico. Espinacas con garbanzos. Fried fish.
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Legend says King Alfonso X of Castile ordered wine to be served with small bites of food to prevent drunkenness. Another tale says bartenders used ham to “cover” (tapar) drinks to keep flies away.
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And then there’s the food. Sevilla claims to be the birthplace of tapas: small plates meant to be shared, savored, and never rushed. In fact, the city is home to the oldest tapas bar in the world, El Rinconcillo.
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