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Bami, Sevilla — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Bami is a trapezoid of 1950s flats in the Distrito Sur of Sevilla, laid out beside the Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío and named after a property company that was itself named for a bank.
About Bami
Where to stay in Bami
The right area depends on your trip — here's what each neighbourhood is best for.
Bami is the barrio you book when the trip is about the Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, whose gate opens on Avenida de Manuel Siurot along the western edge. Beds here are ordinary flats and small guest houses rather than hotels, and the churches and squares of Sevilla are a train ride north. Zona azul now rules Bami's kerbs.
Hospital traffic has squeezed the kerb space for decades, an underground car park opened on 15 April 2003 without curing it, and paid bays are what is left, so arrive without a car and use the Cercanías stop at Estación de Virgen del Rocío on Calle Torcuato Luca de Tena.
About Bami
What are the main landmarks in Bami?
The Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío fills the western side of Bami, opened in 1955 as the Residencia Sanitaria García Morato and grown since into a campus gathering the Hospital General, the Hospital de la Mujer and the Hospital Infantil, while the Clínica Sagrado Corazón keeps annexes among the same blocks. La Torreta rises thirteen floors. That tower stands at number 17 on Calle Castillo de Alcalá de Guadaíra, its exposed brick banded in vanilla, its eastern wing stopping two floors lower, and the four pool-and-garden blocks of Bami Sur set the pattern for everything around it.
Churches, palaces and museums belong to other quarters of Sevilla.
What is the history of Bami?
The 1950 hospital site made Bami. Work on the Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío ran from 1950 to 1955, and it was that building site, rather than a parish or a market, that pulled a barrio out of the fields beside it. The name is an acronym twice removed: the barrio took it from the property company Bami, which took its own letters from the Banco Mercantil e Industrial, and Metrovacesa absorbed that company in 2003.
Street names were drawn from castles once held by the cabildo of Sevilla, so an address here can read Castillo de Alcalá de Guadaíra after a fortress standing some 11 km east in the town of that name, with Calle Rafael Salgado among the few exceptions.
Where is Bami?
Bami is a trapezoid. Calle Torcuato Luca de Tena and the barrio of Tabladilla-La Estrella close it to the north, Avenida de su Eminencia runs along the south, Avenida de Manuel Siurot bounds the west, and on the east the Sevilla to Cádiz railway divides Bami from the Tres Mil Viviendas blocks of Polígono Sur. The Cercanías platforms of Estación de Virgen del Rocío sit on that line at the northern corner, facing the hospital across Calle Torcuato Luca de Tena.
Administratively the ground belongs to the Distrito Sur of Sevilla, the old distrito V, and through the city to Andalusia and Spain.
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Updated September 2026