Everything you need to know
Guided tour details
To see current prices for each rate (adults, children, students, seniors and infants), select your preferred date in the booking calendar. The price shown in the calendar is always the final price.
If you book a reduced rate — child, student, senior or visitor with a disability — bring the document that proves it on the day.
The tour runs throughout the week, with several start times to choose from. Select your date in the booking calendar to see the times available on that day.
Bookings close ten hours before the start time.
The group meets in the old town, a few minutes on foot from the Cathedral.
C. Francos 19, Casco Antiguo, 41004 Seville · View on Google Maps
Please arrive about ten minutes early, so that the whole group can go in at the booked time.
Skip-the-line access to the Cathedral and the Giralda, so you go in at your booked time instead of queuing at the box office.
A guided tour in English with an official guide through the cathedral and its chapels.
Shoulders must be covered to enter the Cathedral and the Giralda. It is worth knowing before you dress for a hot day.
Bring your original, physical ID or passport. Carrying it and showing it on the day is compulsory to get in, and a photograph of it on your phone is not accepted.
After booking you will be asked for the full name and ID or passport number of everyone in the party, because access to the monument is arranged in advance.
Comfortable shoes: the whole visit is on foot, and the way up the Giralda is a long climb if you decide to do it.
The tickets are nominative and are bought in advance, so the amount corresponding to the tickets is not refundable under any circumstances.
For the rest of the price: cancel more than 48 hours before the start and you are refunded in full; between 48 and 24 hours before, half; less than 24 hours before, there is no refund.
Ways to visit
Choose how you visit
Everything on this page describes the guided tour. The same visit is also sold in other formats, each with its own group size, languages and price, and every one of them is booked right here.
Guided tour
From €35per adult
- GroupRegular group
- LanguagesEnglish
An official English-speaking guide takes you through the cathedral and its chapels, with skip-the-line access to the Giralda as well. About an hour and a half.
Check datesAudio guide, at your own pace
From €29per adult
- GroupOn your own
- LanguagesEN / ES / FR / IT / DE, your choice
Tickets to the Cathedral and the Giralda plus an audio guide you play on your phone, in the language you pick. No guide talking, so you set the pace.
This one meets at C. Arfe 3, not at the address above, and the group goes in together at a fixed time, so arriving late means losing the place. Bring your own headphones. Non-refundable once booked.
Small group, maximum 12
From €49per adult
- GroupUp to 12 people
- LanguagesEN / ES / FR / IT, chosen when you book
The same guided route, capped at twelve people, which makes it easier to hear the guide inside a building this size.
Private group
From €125per group
- GroupYour party only
- LanguagesEN / ES / FR / IT, chosen when you book
The cathedral with a guide for your party alone, priced per group rather than per person. One rate covers everyone, whatever the size of the party.
Picks you up at your accommodation if you are staying in the centre of Seville; otherwise it meets at C. Francos 19.
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A mosque, and then the largest church they dared to build
Seville Cathedral was declared a World Heritage Site in 1987 and an Asset of Outstanding Universal Value in 2010. It was raised on the site of the old Aljama mosque, and two pieces of that mosque are still standing: the minaret, which everyone now calls the Giralda, and the Patio de los Naranjos.
The church the canons wanted
For more than 150 years after the conquest the Muslim temple went on being used for Christian worship. It was in 1401 that the chapter decided to replace it, and the building work ran on until 1506. Tradition has the canons saying they wanted a church so large that anyone who saw it finished would think them mad.
The Giralda, minaret and bell tower
During the Renaissance several rooms attached to the Gothic church were rebuilt — the Sacristy, the Chapter House and the Royal Chapel — and the top of the Giralda was added by Hernán Ruíz. At 104 metres it is visible from every part of the city, and it is the monument Seville is recognised by.
Columbus, and the greatest altarpiece in the Christian world
With an official English-speaking guide you go through the interior uncovering what it holds: the remains of Christopher Columbus, carried on the shoulders of four heralds, and the vast gilded altarpiece that took the best part of a century to carve. The guide explains what you are looking at, which in a building this size is the difference between a walk and a visit.
The Patio de los Naranjos, and the climb if you want it
After the guided part inside, there is the Patio de los Naranjos, the orange-tree courtyard left over from the mosque. And if you feel like it, you can go up the Giralda on your own for the view over the rooftops — access is included in your ticket.
Important: depending on the monument’s own schedule, the weather and the pace of the group, the visit may vary in its content or in the order in which the spaces are seen. Your guide will organize the route in whatever way works best on the day.
Your questions answered
Frequently asked questions
About an hour and a half with the guide. If you then climb the Giralda and take your time in the Patio de los Naranjos, allow a while longer.
At C. Francos 19, in the old town, a few minutes on foot from the Cathedral. Come about ten minutes early so the group can go in on time.
Yes. Your booking includes skip-the-line access to the Cathedral and the Giralda, so there is nothing to buy at the box office.
Yes. Access to the tower is included, and you can go up after the guided part of the visit, at your own pace.
Yes, and it is enforced at the door: shoulders must be covered to enter the Cathedral and the Giralda.
Yes, and it has to be the original, physical document.
After booking you will also be asked for the full name and ID or passport number of everyone in the party, because the tickets are nominative and access is arranged in advance.
The tour booked on this page is given in English.
The same visit also runs in Spanish, French and Italian, each on its own dates and with its own guide, so the calendar above shows only the English departures.
This is the regular group tour, and the number of people varies with the date and the time. If you would rather be in a group of no more than twelve, or have the guide to yourselves, see the other ways to visit further up the page.
The tickets are nominative and bought in advance, so the amount corresponding to the tickets is not refundable.
For the rest of the price: more than 48 hours before the start, you are refunded in full; between 48 and 24 hours before, half; less than 24 hours before, there is no refund.
Planning your visit to Seville Cathedral
Practical questions about the monument itself, useful background before you travel.
An hour and a half covers the interior properly with someone explaining it. Add twenty minutes or so for the Giralda and the courtyard, and you are at two hours. It is a very big building and it rewards not rushing.
The Cathedral holds a tomb carried by four heralds, and Seville has argued the point with Santo Domingo for well over a century, since his remains were moved more than once. Genetic testing published in 2006 supported the Seville claim. Whether every bone made the journey is another matter, and the guides enjoy the question.
Both, one after the other. The lower two thirds are the minaret of the Almohad mosque that stood here; the belfry crowning it is a Renaissance addition. The join is visible once someone points it out.
No stairs, ramps — wide, shallow ones that turn around the core of the tower, built so that a rider could get to the top without dismounting. It is a long way up, but it is a walk rather than a climb.
The courtyard of the old mosque, where worshippers washed before prayer. It survived the demolition along with the minaret, and the orange trees are still planted on the old grid.
The Royal Alcázar faces the Cathedral across the square, the Archive of the Indies sits between the two, and the lanes of the Barrio de Santa Cruz begin just behind them.
