Everything you need to know
Guided tour details
To see current prices for each rate (adults, children and infants), select your preferred date in the booking calendar. The price shown in the calendar is always the final price.
The tour does not run every day. Select your date in the booking calendar to see whether there is a departure and at what time.
The group meets at the entrance door of the Casa de Pilatos itself, in the old town.
Pl. de Pilatos 1, Casco Antiguo, 41003 Seville · View on Google Maps
Please arrive a few minutes early, so that the whole group can go in together.
The entrance ticket and an expert guide, for about an hour.
The visit covers the ground floor and the gardens. The upper floor, which is still private, is not part of it.
It is a short visit and an easy one: one hour, all on the level, with plenty of shade in the courtyard and the gardens.
Worth combining with something else the same day. The palace sits in a quiet square about ten minutes on foot from the Cathedral.
Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before the activity. Cancellations made less than 24 hours before the start are not refunded.
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 €25per adult
- GroupRegular group
- LanguagesEnglish
An expert guide takes you through the ground floor and the gardens, with the entrance ticket included. About an hour.
Check datesPrivate group
From €120per group
- GroupYour party only
- LanguagesEnglish or Spanish, chosen when you book
The same visit with a guide for your party alone, priced per group rather than per person, and on far more dates than the shared tour.
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The palace that gave Seville its idea of a courtyard
The Casa de Pilatos is one of the most remarkable examples of civil architecture in Seville, and the one visitors most often miss. It was built in the 15th century by the Enríquez de Ribera family, one of the most influential of its day, and it mixes Italian Renaissance with the Mudejar craft of Andalusia in a way nothing else quite does.
The main courtyard
The heart of the house: semicircular arches on marble columns, and an extraordinary collection of Sevillian tiles running around the walls beneath plasterwork that would not look out of place in a mosque. It is the clearest illustration anywhere in the city of two traditions being used by the same hands at the same time.
The chapel, the ceilings and the doors
There is a private chapel with its altarpieces and religious sculpture, and beyond it the details that tell you what the craftsmen of the period could do: coffered wooden ceilings, carved doors, latticed windows.
Roman marbles and a library
The family collected, and the collection stayed. Roman and Greek sculpture stands along the galleries, there are Renaissance paintings on the walls, and the library holds manuscripts of real value. Your guide picks the pieces worth stopping at, which in an hour is the whole point.
And the name
It comes from a legend: that the distance from the house to a cross outside the city, laid out in fourteen stations, repeats the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem. Whether or not anyone measured it, the name stuck, and the house has been the Casa de Pilatos ever since.
Your questions answered
Frequently asked questions
About an hour. It is the shortest visit we run, which makes it easy to fit around something else.
At the entrance door of the Casa de Pilatos, on Plaza de Pilatos, about ten minutes on foot from the Cathedral.
Yes. Your booking covers the entrance and the guide; there is nothing to buy at the door.
The ground floor and the gardens. The upper floor is still a private residence and is not part of this visit.
The tour booked on this page is given in English.
The same visit also runs in Spanish, on its own dates, so the calendar above shows only the English departures.
No. There are only a few departures a week, and they are not always at the same time, so check the booking calendar for the date you have in mind.
Yes. Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before the activity.
Planning your visit to the Casa de Pilatos
Practical questions about the palace itself, useful background before you travel.
Because of a pilgrimage. The first Marquis of Tarifa came back from Jerusalem in the 16th century and laid out a Way of the Cross from his own front door to a shrine outside the walls, in fourteen stations, in imitation of the Via Dolorosa. The house became the starting point, and then simply the Casa de Pilatos.
They are not the same thing, and seeing both is the point. The Alcázar is a royal palace and it shows: vast, ceremonial, endlessly added to. The Casa de Pilatos is a family house, on a human scale, and it is where you see what a wealthy Sevillian actually lived in.
A great many of them. The courtyard is lined with 16th-century Sevillian tilework made in the kilns of Triana, across the river, and specialists come to Seville specifically to see it.
Yes, and the gardens are part of the visit: walled, planted with orange and palm, and quiet in a way the middle of Seville usually is not.
About ten minutes on foot, through the streets east of the centre. The walk itself is one of the nicer ones in the old town, and it goes nowhere near the crowds.
