Thrift stores in Seville

Thrift stores reward the patient. In Seville, Andalusia that patience currently stretches across 8 mapped shops — 5 of them are charity shops and 3 are independent second-hand stores, so Seville gives you both flavours of thrifting in one trip.

This guide covers every thrift store we could verify in and around Seville (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Cex and Rastro Remar, plus Oxfam Intermón — each with its own personality, which is half the fun. If a shop's missing from Seville's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet — the scene is bigger than any single dataset.

The Seville thrift lineup

8 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about thrifting in Seville

3 of the 8 shops list their opening hours, which is unusually helpful for Seville — thrift stores are notorious for surprise closures. Still, call ahead if you're making a special trip to Seville; volunteer-run shops sometimes close early on quiet days.

2 shops have websites listed, worth a look before you go — some post new arrivals or sale days online.

The two mapped shops sit on 32 Avenida Luis de Morales and 57 Calle Recaredo — close enough to make a single outing of it.

The Seville thrift circuit

The efficient Seville thrifting route strings these together: Cex on 32 Avenida Luis de Morales, Rastro Remar on 57 Calle Recaredo, Oxfam Intermón, Merkatlhon, Caritas, Humana, Ocasión Plus, and Caritas — 8 shops, one logical loop, no backtracking.

Thrifting tips for Seville

A few things worth knowing before you work through Seville's thrift stores:

• Bring cash for the small shops at Cex. Card minimums are common at volunteer-run tills. A few small bills keep a bargain from getting awkward.
• Visit at opening time at Rastro Remar. Serious pickers arrive at opening. You don't have to be one of them, but the first hour has the best pick of the day's restock.
• Check the furniture first. Solid wood furniture is the thrift store's greatest bargain — it was built to last and priced to move. Measure your space before you go.
• Try everything on. Sizing across decades is chaos. The fitting room — or a brave moment by the mirror — saves you from the almost-right jacket.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Seville — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to for a thrifting run. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new shop in Seville can take a while to appear. The 8 above are only as current as the community map. A shop that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

Prices at Seville's thrift stores are set by each shop and change constantly, so we don't list them. As a rough rule, charity shops are the cheapest, independents sit in the middle, and anything labelled vintage costs more everywhere — Seville included.