El Alamillo (Seville) and Los Toruños (Cádiz) have launched night programming featuring cinema, concerts, trails and stargazing. A refreshing alternative for families during July and August.
The high temperatures push people to seek the coolness of the night, and two large metropolitan parks in Andalusia have understood this perfectly. El Alamillo, in Seville, and Los Toruños and Pinar de la Algaida, in the Bay of Cádiz, have launched a special night leisure program for July and August, with activities ranging from summer cinema to stargazing, along with magic, flamenco and flashlight scavenger hunts.
The offer, which is already underway, aims to turn natural spaces into meeting points for families and curious visitors when the sun sets. In Mallorca, where the heat is also intense, the idea of making use of parks at night could serve as inspiration for future seasons.
El Alamillo: themed nights with cinema, magic and flamenco
The Sevillian park of El Alamillo kicked off its cycle Los Veranillos del Alamillo on July 6 with a candlelight concert that lit up the night with candles and covers of The Beatles, ABBA and Queen. From then on, each day of the week has its own theme: Mondays are for night adventures with scavenger hunts and mysteries; Tuesdays are for musical bingo; Wednesdays are for magic with illusionists like Alexku, Juan Luis Melgar, Ismael Montoro and Alexis Melgar; and Thursdays are for flamenco, in collaboration with the Fundación Cristina Heeren.
Fridays are dedicated to summer cinema, featuring family blockbusters. Saturdays alternate between interactive cinema in a sing-along format, where the audience sings and dances guided by an entertainer, and Spanish song performances. On Sunday afternoons, the park's nautical centre offers kayaking and paddle surfing in two sessions, at 19:00 and 20:00 hours, with prior reservation.
For nature lovers living in Mallorca, this variety of activities shows that a park can be much more than just a daytime walking area. The combination of cultural leisure and water sports, all in one space, is a model that could be replicated in environments like Parque de la Mar or Bosc de Bellver.
Los Toruños: citizen science with chameleons and auteur cinema
In the Bay of Cádiz, the park of Los Toruños and Pinar de la Algaida has launched its Noches de Verano, with a free calendar for July and August. One of the most unique proposals is the Chameleonic Tuesdays, a citizen science activity that involves night outings to locate, geolocate and tag the park's chameleons with microchips, thus contributing to their census and study.
On Wednesdays and Thursdays, starting at 22:00 hours, night adventures are organized: interpretative walks with flashlights through the pine forest and marsh to solve puzzles and discover secrets of the forest. The activity is free but requires prior registration. Fridays are dedicated to the cosmos, with stargazing guided by the Grupo Astronómico Portuense.
The events tent at the Casa de Los Toruños hosts a film cycle on Thursdays presented by actor Bruto Pomeroy, ASECAN Award 2026, with discussions and the presence of filmmakers like Pablo Carbonell, Álex O'Dogherty or Gracia Querejeta. In total, eight feature films will be screened, mostly by Andalusian directors. The Noches Escénicas, featuring puppetry, circus and magic, complete the family offer.
This Cádiz initiative, which combines science, cinema and nature, could serve as a model for managers of natural spaces in Mallorca, where stargazing or monitoring native species like the Mediterranean turtle could also attract an audience eager for different plans.
In short, while in Mallorca alternatives are sought to combat the summer heat, the Andalusian parks demonstrate that night is a perfect ally for family leisure. Who knows if next summer we will see similar activities in the Albufera or in the Serra de Tramuntana. For now, island residents traveling to Andalusia already have a guaranteed plan.
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