🦩 Visit Doñana National Park from Seville

One of the best nature activities you can do is to take a trip to Doñana National Park from Seville. This section gives you some tips on how to do it.

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Visits to Doñana from Seville

If you are in Seville for a few days there are places nearby that you can not miss. You’ve probably heard a lot about, and seen on TV, people on pilgrimage to El Rocío, or the immensity of the Doñana Park or the endless beach of Matalascañas. Now that you are in Seville it is time for you to see those places for yourself. If you fancy a guided tour with all the details, here are the best ones!.

The trip to Doñana from Seville is suitable for everyone, and especially for the most inquisitive. It will show you an important part of Spain’s natural and cultural heritage, as well as its impressive landscapes. There is no better way to start the day than by entering one of Europe’s largest nature reserves and then continuing with a visit to the village of El Rocío, an important centre of pilgrimage.

With a trip to Doñana from Seville you will discover a paradise of pine forests, marshes and dunes. A beautiful ecosystem to travel in 4×4 and discover the various places, fauna and flora. You will see birds, deer, wild boar and maybe the elusive Iberian lynx. Ideal with children.

The route

There are several options, we will talk about one of the main ones, which includes Doñana and other destinations in the area.

It must be made clear that on this trip you will not have to worry about a thing. A guide will pick you up at the door of your hotel in Seville or at a nearby point. You will board the bus and head to Doñana National Park, one of the largest in Europe and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

So as not to spoil the environment and to make the visit more comfortable, you will ride in a 4×4 with the guide, who will tell you about the history of the marshes, the forests and the abundant flora and fauna of the park while you take photos of the great variety of ecosystems. The park is home to endangered species.

After spending a few exciting hours there, it is time to head to the town of El Rocío (in some tours), a place of great fervour and veneration for the Virgen del Rocío, and with centuries of history.

The Doñana National Park occupies the right bank of the Guadalquivir River at its mouth in the Atlantic Ocean. It stands out for the great diversity of its biotopes, especially lagoons, marshes, fixed and mobile dunes and scrub. The park is home to important resident populations of threatened species such as the Iberian lynx, the imperial eagle, the marbled teal and the white-headed duck. The black vulture and red kite are also present, as well as large breeding colonies of waterfowl, herons, egrets and waders.

It is the most important wintering place for waterfowl in Spain, receives hundreds of thousands of specimens and is an important stopover on the route to and from Africa for Palearctic migrants. Although it has been affected by a series of human activities that have reduced its integrity, the Doñana National Park is a resilient system and nature remains wild and unspoiled. In the context of an overpopulated and long-inhabited continent, Doñana is one of the few national parks in Europe that can match the international importance of parks in other parts of the world. Ecotourism provides significant added value to this nature reserve by generating direct and indirect income for local communities while promoting the sustainable use of this vital wetland ecosystem.

Doñana is an animal paradise, with interesting populations of freshwater fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and many birds. Among the mammals, deer and wild boar stand out. The most endangered animals are the Iberian lynx, the imperial eagle and the marbled teal. The most travelling animals are the flamingo, the common stork and the common goose.

The beautiful Iberian lynx is currently the most endangered feline species on the planet, with around 600 in existence. Pushed to the brink of extinction by habitat loss, hunting and dwindling food, fortunately, the population has grown in recent years thanks to concerted conservation efforts. The wild lynx remains only in the mountains of Andújar and in Doñana, which hosts the last surviving population at sea level.

On your visit, you will most likely see groups of deer and large birds such as vultures and eagles. In the wetlands, you will see many waterfowl, including the flamingo. We recommend taking good binoculars and always maintaining an attitude of silence and respect for the wildlife. You will also see the so-called aviaries, which are huge trees that serve as nesting places for many birds.