History
Discover one of the most important places of the history of Córdoba, residence of the Catholic Monarchs, Isabel and Fernando for more than eight years.
Alcázar of Córdoba
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World Heritage Monument and Exceptional Character
World Heritage Monument and Exceptional Character
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Visit the Alcázar of
the Christian Monarchs
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ALCÁZAR, MOSQUE OF CORDOBA,
AND JEWISH QUARTER GUIDED TOUR
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ALCÁZAR OF THE CHRISTIAN MONARCHS
What does this guided tour include?
1. Tickets included. We manage your tickets quickly, easily and free of charge, without waiting in annoying queues at the ticket office.
2. Authorised guides and interpreters. Enjoy a unique experience with the best tour guides and heritage interpreters.
3. Headphones. Listen clearly to the explanations of our guides with high quality headphones. We will use them whenever the group exceeds 10 people.
4. Languages. Choose the language of your visit, Spanish, English or French, and enjoy the monument in depth.
5. The most complete Alcazar tour. Enjoy all the rooms of a unique building. Stroll through its beautiful gardens and, if you dare, climb the towers and enjoy the views.
RESERVE YOUR PLACE ON THE ALCÁZAR, MOSQUE OF CORDOBA, AND JEWISH QUARTER GUIDED TOUR
What does this reservation include?
1. Tickets included: We manage your tickets quickly, free and easily, without waiting in annoying queues at the box office.
2. Authorized Guides and Interpreters: Enjoy a unique experience with the best guides authorized by the Mosque-Cathedral.
3. Headphones: Listen clearly to the explanations of our guides with high-quality headphones.
4. Languages: Choose the language of your visit, Spanish, English or French, and enjoy the monument in depth.
5. The most complete tour to the Mosque: We are the only operator that makes its regular visit in 1.5 hours.
Meeting point
Sign of the Sotos de la Albolafia, in front of the main entrance of the Alcázar
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Start time
10:15 from Tuesday to Saturday (all year around)
10:30 and 12:00 on Sundays (all year around)
18:30 all year around (except during summer months)
Departure days
From Tuesday to Saturday (all year around)
On Mondays the monument remains closed (all year around)
What do the guided tour to
the Alcázar of Córdoba include?
- Tickets included. We manage your tickets quickly, free and easily, without waiting in annoying queues at the ticket office.
- Languages. Choose the language of your visit, Spanish, English or French, and enjoy the monument with all the guarantees.
- Authorized Guides and Interpreters. Enjoy an unique experience with the best guides and heritage interpreters.
- The most complete tour. Enjoy a guided tour of approximately 1 hour with the best guides.
- Headphones. Listen clearly to the explanations of our guides with high-quality headphones.
- Extend your visit. Add the Jewish Quarter, the Synagogue and the Mosque-Cathedral to your visit to the Alcázar.
¿What will we see in
the Alcázar of Córdoba guided tour?
It’s the focus of a multitude of stories and anecdotes, where famous personalities like Christopher Columbus met to request an audience with Christian monarchs.
The monument
The Alcázar keeps its initial structure as a fortress, although inside it housed a palatial architecture typical of the personalities who lived there.
Gardens, towers, halls, monuments…enjoy a unique experience with the best historians and tourist guides of the city.
Evolution
The Alcázar of Córdoba is a building that has changed its use over the years… Do you know it was given to the Holy Inquisition and transformed into a prison?
Nowadays it is common to see civil weddings taking place inside it, as it is a unique setting and highly valued by the locals.
Private tours
If you wish to hire a private tour just for you, your family, or your group of friends…you are in the right place.
If you wish to hire a private tour just for you, your family, or your group of friends…you are in the right place.
Not only can you request a quote for your private tour visit to the Alcázar of Córdoba, you can also request a quote for the Mosque-Cathedral and the rest of the monuments of the city.
You just need to fill in this simple form and we will get back to you as soon as possible. Give us as much information as possible and leave it in our hands.
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Here are some of our other visits
Here are some of our other visits
BOOK
MOSQUE-CATHEDRAL OF
CÓRDOBA GUIDED TOUR
Add Jewish Quarter and Alcázar for only €16
BOOK
MOSQUE OF CÓRDOBA AND
JEWISH QUARTER GUIDED TOUR
Add Alcázar for only €13
BOOK
MEDINA AZAHARA
GUIDED TOUR
BOOK
MEDINA AZAHARA
AT NIGHT GUIDED TOUR
RESERVE YOUR PLACE ON THE
MOSQUE-CATHEDRAL OF CORDOBA GUIDED TOUR
What does this reservation include?
1. Tickets included: We manage your tickets quickly, free and easily, without waiting in annoying queues at the box office.
2. Authorized Guides and Interpreters: Enjoy a unique experience with the best guides authorized by the Mosque-Cathedral.
3. Headphones: Listen clearly to the explanations of our guides with high-quality headphones.
4. Languages: Choose the language of your visit, Spanish, English or French, and enjoy the monument in depth.
5. The most complete tour to the Mosque: We are the only operator that makes its regular visit in 1.5 hours.
What does this reservation include?
1. Tickets included: We manage your tickets quickly, free and easily, without waiting in annoying queues at the box office.
2. Authorized Guides and Interpreters: Enjoy a unique experience with the best guides authorized by the Mosque-Cathedral.
3. Headphones: Listen clearly to the explanations of our guides with high-quality headphones.
4. Languages: Choose the language of your visit, Spanish, English or French, and enjoy the monument in depth.
5. The most complete tour to the Mosque: We are the only operator that makes its regular visit in 1.5 hours.
RESERVE YOUR PLACE ON
MEDINA AZAHARA GUIDED TOUR
What does this guided tour include?
1. Bus to Medina Azahara. You have two options, go by your own car to the archeological site, or choose the option with the bus included.
– With bus. If you choose this option, you have two stops where you can hop on in the Paseo de la Victoria. The first one in Glorieta de Cruz Roja, the second in front of Mercado Victoria. .
– Without bus. If you choose this option we’ll see eachother in the parking lot of the archaeological site.
2. Authorized guides and interpreters. Enjoy an unique experience with the best guides and heritage interpreters.
3. Headphones. Listen clearly to the explanations of our guides with high-quality headphones. We’ll use them with groups of more than 10 people.
4. Languages. Choose the language of your visit, Spanish or English.
5. The most complete tour. Enjoy the monument in its entirety. We’ll visit all the areas of the archaeological site, the museum and the audiovisual room.
RESERVE YOUR PLACE ON
MEDINA AZAHARA AT NIGHT GUIDED TOUR
What does this guided tour include?
1. Bus to Medina Azahara. You have two options, go by your own car to the archaeological site, or choose the option with the bus included.
– With bus. If you choose this option, you have two stops where you can hop on in the Paseo de la Victoria. The first one in Glorieta de Cruz Roja, the second in front of Mercado Victoria.
– Without bus. If you choose this option, you have to go by car to the visitor reception center, leave your car in the parking lot, take the shuttle bus and wait for us at the main entrance to the archaeological site.
2. Authorized guides and interpreters. Enjoy an unique experience with best guides and heritage interpreters.
3. Headphones. Listen clearly to the explanations of our guides with high-quality headphones. We’ll use them with groups of more than 10 people.
4.Languages. Choose the language of your visit, Spanish or English.
5. The most complete tour. Enjoy the monument in its entirety.
Book
Patios de Córdoba
Guided Tour
Book
Free Tour
Centro Histórico
Book the Córdoba at night Free Tour too!
Book
Free Tour Córdoba
de noche
Book the Historic Center Free Tour too!
RESERVE YOUR PLACE ON THE
PATIOS DE CÓRDOBA GUIDED TOUR
What does this guided tour include?
1. Patios Populares. Enjoy the most famous and laureates Patios of the popular contest of may.
2. Intangible world heritage. The visit is about the Patios that participates in the festival of may, declared intangible world heritage by UNESCO.
3. Almost all year around. The owners strive to spread the festival beyond the popular contest in may.
4. Entrance tickets included. We handle your tickets quickly, free of charges and easily, without waiting in annoying lines at the ticket office.
5. Authorized guides and interpreters. Enjoy an unique experience with the best guides and heritage interpreters.
6. Languages. Choose the language of your visit, Spanish or English.
7. The most complete tour. The duration ranges between 1,5 hours and 2 hours. We’ll make the most of our time to enjoy a unique experience.
RESERVE YOUR PLACE ON THE
FREE TOUR
HISTORIC CENTER
Book the Córdoba at night Free Tour too!
What does this free tour include?
1. Free booking. Reservations are free of charge. Reserve your place at the most complete free tour of Córdoba.
2. It ‘s not for free. The guided tour is not for free, we asked you that at the end of the visit you value the guide’ s work with a tip depending on your happiness after the tour.
3. Professionals guides. Our team is not amateur, they’re official guides and professional historians. We dedicate our work to spread Córdoba and its heritage.
4. Historical accuracy. Our free tours are of the highest quality, designed so you can enjoy them to the fullest, without neglecting historical rigor.
5. The tour. We’ll walk around one of the biggest historical centers in Europe, so you cannot miss the highlights of the city.
6. Big groups. If your group is bigger than 6 persons, contact us, and we’ll try to offer you the best option at the best price.
RESERVE YOUR PLACE ON THE
FREE TOUR CÓRDOBA AT NIGHT
Book the Historic Center Free Tour too!
What does this free tour include?
1. Free booking. Reservations are free of charge. Reserve your place at the most complete free tour of Córdoba.
2. It ‘s not for free. The guided tour is not for free, we asked you that at the end of the visit you value the guide’ s work with a tip depending on your happiness after the tour.
3. Professionals guides. Our team is not amateur, they’re official guides and professional historians. We dedicate our work to spread Córdoba and its heritage.
4. Historical accuracy. Our free tours are of the highest quality, designed so you can enjoy them to the fullest, without neglecting historical rigor.
5. The tour. This tour it’s only available in Spanish, so if you dare you can practice your Spanish with us.
6. Big groups. If your group is bigger than 6 persons, contact us, and we’ll try to offer you the best option at the best price.
The Monument
When you visit the Alcázar of Córdoba you will realize that there are numerous archeological remains of pre-Christian cultures, and that this space had a really important former life.
As you know, the building is very close to the Guadalquivir River, that was known as the Betis River by the romans, in that time the river was navigable up to our city. Large commercial exchanges linked Córdoba with the metropolis, and in order to have good control of these goods, a large customs office was necessary. This port and this customs office were located in the space we know today as the Christian Alcázar…Do you wanna know more about it?
In times of emirs and caliphs, the Umayyad Alcazar was established, those walls witnessed a thousands of stories. That Alcázar was expanding over the years, coming to be located, in part, in the place that occupies us. Therefore, there was an Islamic Alcázar before the Christian one.
After the Christian conquest in 1236, the land was divided between the clergy, the nobility and the Order of Calatrava and it was Alfonso X the Wise who decided to build the current building and fortress that we know today.
Since the year 1482 the Christian Alcázar was the residence of the Catholic Monarchs, Isabel and Fernando, for more than 8 years. From here the monarchs planned the final assault on the last Muslim strongholds that offered resistance in the peninsula, the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada.
During these years numerous historical events took place, but perhaps the most relevant was the first audience that their Majesties held with Christopher Columbus, who, as you know, was trying to convince them to cover the expenses of his risky voyage to the Indies.
After the departure of the Catholic Monarchs to Granada, the building was given to the Tribunal of the Holy Inquisition. Many of the rooms became dungeons, changing its aesthetics completely.
Nowadays the Christian Alcázar of the Christian Monarchs is one of the most beloved places by the people of Córdoba, not in vain, many of them decide to celebrate their wedding inside. Strolling through its gardens and pools is a pleasure for all visitors.
When you visit the Christian Alcázar of Córdoba do not forget to look for its most representative spaces, as is the case of the Hall of the Mosaics. This spaces owes its name to the large collection of mosaics that house its walls, most of them were taken from the area of the Plaza de la Corredera.
If you are in good shape, we highly recommend to go all the way up to The towers of Los Leones and Homenaje, both of them united by a narrow parapet that runs along the north wall. There you will enjoy magnificent views of the city including the river and the Roman Bridge.
One of the most unique spaces are, without a doubt, the Mudejar Royal Baths. Despite its poor state of preservation, we can get an idea of how they were distributed, since all the rooms are perfectly visible. They were built by order of King Alfonso XI for his favorite, Doña Leonor de Guzmán.
Undoubtedly the greatest attraction of the monument are its wonderful gardens, full of pools, fruit trees and countless floral species, which give the whole an exceptional originality. It is a pleasure to see Cordobeses and tourists enjoying a stroll through its different corners.
Preguntas Frecuentes
- ¿Cómo reconocer al guía?
- Nuestro guía llevará un paraguas de color granate con letras blancas en el punto de encuentro.
- ¿Están las entradas incluidas?
- En todas las visitas guiadas están las entradas incluidas en el precio, a excepción de los tours que hacemos en la Mezquita-Catedral. En este caso damos también la opción de realizar la reserva sin entrada de la Mezquita, en caso de que el cliente ya la tenga o requiera un descuento adicional y por ello tenga que sacar su entrada desde la página web oficial de la Mezquita-Catedral de Córdoba.
- ¿Cómo reconocer al guía?
- Nuestro guía llevará un paraguas de color granate con letras blancas en el punto de encuentro.
- ¿Hasta cuántas personas pueden ir en un grupo?
- Habitualmente los grupos son reducidos para asegurarnos de ofrecer la mejor calidad a nuestros clientes. En días excepcionales, tales como festivos, o fechas concretas en el que el número de personas demandantes de visitas guiadas es más elevado es probable que el grupo pueda llegar hasta las 30 personas.
- ¿Es necesario llevar el bono de confirmación impreso?
- No, el bono puede presentarlo impreso o a través del teléfono móvil o tablet.
- ¿Qué ocurre si llego tarde a la visita?
- En primer lugar, recomendamos que avise por vía telefónica que va a acudir tarde a la visita, para darle instrucciones o cambiarle la visita de hora en caso de que se pueda. En segundo lugar, en caso de no haber notificado que acude tarde a la visita, los guías siempre darán 5 minutos de cortesía a todos los clientes antes de comenzar la visita. Si usted llegar más de 5 minutos tarde el guía habrá comenzado y perderá el derecho a su visita y, por lo tanto, también las entradas al interior de los monumentos.
- ¿Si se contratan varias visitas guiadas se nos podrá realizar descuento?
- El único descuento que aplicamos en caso de contratar varias visitas guiadas es si lo hacen mediante nuestros Packs Oferta en la web.
