Alone in the Alcazar:
Exclusive early access to Seville's royal palace
Destination
Seville, Spain
Duration
1.5 hours
Tour size
Max 30
Language
English
Overview
Walk into the Royal Alcazar an hour before it opens, with the palace and its seven-hectare gardens entirely to your group. Nine hundred years of Islamic tile, royal halls, and subtropical garden with no one else inside.
- •Enter the Alcazar before any other visitors arrive, through doors opened only for your group
- •Walk the oldest continuously inhabited royal palace in Europe room by silent room
- •Stand in the hall where Ferdinand and Isabella planned Columbus's voyage to the New World
- •Step into seven hectares of gardens, expanded by every monarch who lived here
- •Look out for the peacocks that still wander the grounds at first light
What's included
- VIP early access entry to the Royal Alcazar
- Expert English-speaking guide
- Headsets for clear narration
You will visit
- Royal Alcazar
- The Palace of King Peter I
- The Hall of the Ambassadors
- The Patio de las Doncellas
- The Sala de Audiencias, where Columbus's voyage was planned
- The Alcazar gardens
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What to expect
Plaza del Triunfo at first light
You meet your guide in Plaza del Triunfo, the square outside the Alcazar walls, while the rest of Seville is still waking up. In a few hours time, the line for general admission will form a few meters away, but your group will not be joining it. On this tour, the Alcazar opens an hour before the public, and only for you.
Inside the Palace: a Mudéjar masterpiece
The doors open and quickly close behind you. Your guide walks you through the Mudéjar palace commissioned in 1364, where Christian rulers hired Moorish craftsmen to build a royal residence in the Islamic style. The tile, plaster, and carved cedar ceilings are the most extensive Mudéjar work in Spain. At this hour, you have space to soak in every detail and hear your own footsteps cross the tile.
"The first ten minutes are why I love this tour. The palace is silent, the light comes through the courtyards, and you can hear the fountains."
Alba,
WalksDevour Seville guide
"Even as a born-and-raised Sevillana, I’ve never seen the Alcazar empty until we created this tour. It’s truly special."
Penelope,
WalksDevour Seville product designer
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