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Half of every orange never becomes electricity, and the two tree counts the city's water company publishes cannot both be right.
March and November sit half a degree apart and November takes two and a half times the rain. The two shoulder seasons are not interchangeable.
Same administration, same €1.50 ticket, same six annual closures. One shuts at 3pm for 92 days a year and the other for 31, and the gap lands in high season.
Nine kilometres of shelving and 43,000 bundles in a Juan de Herrera building, between two monuments charging €15.50 and €13.00. This one charges nothing.
Extra virgin is a floor at 0.8 % acidity. This designation sets its ceiling at 0.3 %, and it will also reject an oil for being too bitter.
Two protected indications with caliber ranges that never overlap. Manzanilla is a variety with a legal definition, not a jar style, and the boundary is 141 fruits per kilo.
Easter is computed from the moon, which moves Holy Week across a 35-day window. The Feria is not computed at all, and that difference decides what can be booked early.
The first bus most visitors take costs €6.00 and the ordinary urban single costs €1.40. Three issuers, three cards, and one word that means two different things.
Four of the five reach their destination on a scheduled bus, with the line code and the fare. The fifth has no line at all, and the reason is not distance.
A regional law renamed the natural park, the UNESCO Geopark label sits on top of it, and searching the old name returns different pages from the same authority.
Six museums for €10.11, or €7.11 with an EU passport. Going on a Saturday is worth exactly €3.00 and closes most of the gap between the two.
Ten free hours on Saturday against five and a half paid ones on Sunday. Almost a third of this museum's opening week costs nothing, and none of it turns on a passport.
One city ordinance decides when a market bar may spread onto the neighbouring stall, and that single clause is what gives every Seville market its second timetable.
It advertises 9pm, sells its last 25 tickets at 8.15pm and closes the galleries at 8.30pm. For €1.50 it is the only large indoor space open through the Seville afternoon.
The two admissions that cost nothing are the only two that must be reserved in advance. And of the city's five free-entry rules, only one can ever apply to a foreign visitor.
The Seville to Mazagón bus runs once a day each way in high summer. Which lines reach which beach, who operates them and why none of them is step-free.
Carmona is a public consortium bus route with a published fare, not a ticket to shop around for. Which line to take and why the travel card halves the price.
The main floor is €12 and the upper floor a separate €6. The free Monday is still there, but it now has to be reserved online a month ahead.
Doñana's visitor centres are free and one sits a kilometre from a bus stop served from Seville. What that route reaches, and what it does not.
Entry costs nothing for EU citizens and €1.50 for everyone else. Which bus line actually runs there, and why Sunday is the worst day to attempt it.
Two attractions share one address in Plaza de la Encarnación and their tickets have nothing to do with each other. What each one costs and who runs it.
Of more than a thousand casetas at the Feria, about twenty are open to anyone. The barrier is a municipal licence rather than a lack of local friends.
Grandstand seats on the official route are not tickets a visitor can book. What the Carrera Oficial is, how its seating actually works and where to stand free.
The Alcázar charges €7.00 for its night programme and €15.50 by day. A short list of monuments stays open late, and the prices run backwards.
The Alcázar and the cathedral come to €28.50 together and the airport bus to €8 return. The full three-day total, built from each operator's published tariff.
A €15.50 Alcázar ticket covers admission across the river, though the €8.00 reduced one does not. What survives inside the old Santa Ana pottery works.
The stalls shut at 3pm but the building runs to midnight. Which half of Triana Market is open when, and why the Inquisition site below may not be.
Seville runs four separate routes to a free museum and only one depends on the date. Which one applies to a visitor from outside the EU.
The €15.50 ticket covers the palaces and gardens, not the Upper Royal Quarters. What each ticket type includes and which visitors pay nothing.
No train serves Seville airport, so the choice is a €6 bus or a fixed-fare taxi. What each costs and when the weekend rate applies.
Three Sunday times govern a cathedral visit and only one lets you climb the tower. What the ticket costs and when the Giralda stops admitting.
July in Seville runs to a mean daily maximum of 36.0°C and a mean minimum of 20.3°C. What the official climate record says about visiting in high summer.
