Re-Read is a second-hand and independent bookshop in the Alfalfa quarter — a neighbourhood of narrow streets between the Cathedral and the river where the buildings are close enough to create their own shade. The shop is exactly the kind of Sevillano room that repays the detour: whitewashed walls, dark wooden shelving, a small reading table near the door, and a stock arranged with visible editorial intelligence rather than the indiscriminate accumulation of most second-hand shops. The selection covers Spanish literature, art, design, and travel, with a particular depth in Andalusian writing and Sevillano history. The turnover is constant — the inventory is worth more than one visit. The afternoons, when the neighbourhood quiets and the light comes through the high window in a long diagonal, are the correct hours for the kind of browsing the shop is built for.
Alfalfa, Seville, Spain