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Casa Número 7. This is as close as you can get to staying in an elegant private home in Seville. Next to Santa Cruz barrio, the little inn is in a beautiful, sensitively restored 19th-century mansion where you live in style, with a butler to serve you breakfast. Small in size, Casa Número 7 is big on style and grace notes, recapturing the aura of Old Seville. It thinks itself, with justification, as a civilised oasis in the midst of a bustling city. The building envelops an old atrium and is filled with such touches as family photographs, Oriental area rugs, a marble fireplace and floral print love seats. Rooms are individually decorated in old Sevillano style, with impeccable taste and an eye to comfort. All come with good-size bathrooms with tub/shower combo. Our favourite is the spacious Yellow Room, with its “Juliet balcony” overlooking the street.

Vigenes 7, 41004 Seville. 95-422-15-81. Fax 95-421-45-27 . www.casanumero7.com.

Amenities: Honesty bar, laundry service. In room: A/C, hairdryer.