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.
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 tickets to all three: the Royal Alcázar, the Cathedral and the Giralda.
A guided tour in English with an official guide through both monuments.
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 into the Alcázar and the Cathedral.
After booking you will be asked for the full name and ID or passport number of everyone in the party, because access to the monuments is arranged in advance.
Comfortable shoes. It is three and a half hours on your feet, and the way up the Giralda is a long ramp if you decide to do it.
When the tour ends you can stay in the gardens of the Alcázar for as long as you like, or walk back through the palace before leaving.
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 €65per adult
- GroupRegular group
- LanguagesEnglish
An official English-speaking guide takes you through the Cathedral, the Giralda and the Alcu00e1zar, with skip-the-line entry to all three. About three and a half hours.
Check datesAudio guide, at your own pace
From €59per adult
- GroupOn your own
- LanguagesEN / ES / FR / IT / DE, your choice
Tickets to all three monuments plus an audio guide you play on your phone, in the language you pick. You go in at your booked time and take as long as you like.
You collect the tickets at C. Francos 19 before going in, from an hour before your slot. Bring your own headphones. Non-refundable once booked.
Small group, maximum 12
From €89per adult
- GroupUp to 12 people
- LanguagesEnglish or Spanish, chosen when you book
The same guided route through both monuments, capped at twelve people, which makes a real difference inside the cathedral.
Private group
From €250per group
- GroupYour party only
- LanguagesEN / ES / FR / IT, chosen when you book
Both monuments 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, or at the nearest point a vehicle can reach.
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Two World Heritage monuments, one guide, one morning
The Cathedral of Seville, its tower and the Royal Alcázar are the three things almost nobody leaves the city without seeing, and they face each other across the same square. This tour takes them in one go, with priority entry to all three, so the whole visit is about three and a half hours instead of two separate mornings and two separate queues.
The cathedral, and what stood here before it
About an hour and a half inside the largest Gothic cathedral in the world, which began in the 12th century as the aljama mosque of Isbilya, the main mosque of Muslim Seville. The guide works through its treasures and its legends: the tomb of Christopher Columbus, and the vast gilded altarpiece often called the largest in all Christianity, which is as full of symbolism as it is of gold.
Up the Giralda, if you want to
The tower was the minaret of that mosque, and for centuries it was one of the tallest buildings anywhere. After the explanation of how it was built and what happened to it, there is free time to walk up the ramps to the viewpoint some ninety metres up, and look out over the whole city.
Then the Alcázar, across the square
A short break, and then an hour and a half in the oldest royal palace in Europe still in use, again with priority entry. The route takes in the palace of King Pedro I, the Patio del Yeso, the House of the Assistant, the Casa de la Contratación and the Gothic palaces, and finishes in the gardens.
And time of your own at the end
The guided part ends in the gardens on purpose, so that the last stretch is yours: stay among the orange trees and the fountains, or go back through the rooms you want to see again, for as long as the monument is open.
Important: depending on the monuments’ own schedules, the weather and the pace of the group, the visit may vary in its content or in the order in which the monuments are seen. Your guide will organize the route in whatever way works best on the day.
Your questions answered
Frequently asked questions
About three and a half hours: roughly an hour and a half in the Cathedral and the Giralda, a short break, and another hour and a half in the Alcázar.
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 entry to the Royal Alcázar, the Cathedral and the Giralda. There is nothing else to buy.
Yes. Access is included and there is free time during the visit to walk up, at your own pace.
Yes, and it is enforced at the door: shoulders must be covered to enter the Cathedral and the Giralda. The Alcázar has no dress code.
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.
Both monuments are also sold on their own, with the same guide and the same skip-the-line entry: the Royal Alcázar and the Cathedral and the Giralda. Each takes about an hour and a half.
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 monumental Seville
Practical questions about the monuments themselves, useful background before you travel.
Comfortably, and most people do. They are two minutes apart on foot. The reason it is often described as a full day is the queueing, not the walking: with timed entry to both, three and a half hours covers them properly.
The Cathedral, and for a practical reason: it closes earlier than the Alcázar on most days, and the Alcázar gardens are the better place to end up with time to spare.
In practice, yes. Both work on timed entry and the on-the-day queue at the ticket windows is the single thing visitors complain about most in the middle of the day. Whoever you book with, book before you arrive in the square.
No stairs, ramps — wide, shallow ones that turn around the core of the tower, built so 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 Archive of the Indies sits between the two monuments, the lanes of the Barrio de Santa Cruz start immediately behind them, and the Plaza de España is a fifteen-minute walk through the María Luisa park.
