Alcazar de Segovia Tickets

To avoid waiting and ensure your visit to the Alcázar, we recommend you buy your Tickets for the Alcázar of Segovia in advance.

Austere, as the Castilian kings were, elevated on the rock at the confluence of the Eresma and Clamores valleys, The Palace of the Kings of Castile seems to guard the city. Orson Welles used it in ‘Chimes at Midnight’ and Walt Disney inspired in its slender and elegant outline the Snow White Castle.

Its beautiful Tower of Homenaje, often compared to the bow of a ship sailing between rivers, is of impressive beauty. Tourists are amazed to see that the fortress forms a living part of this Castilian city, chosen as a place of residence by many of the monarchs of the Trastamara dynasty.

The Palace comprises a set of rooms in which the visitor can enjoy the medieval atmosphere that for centuries housed the palace. to the Castilian court. Main core of the castle, the different rooms show in their coffered ceilings, architectural elements and backgrounds all the splendor of thefortress-palace.

The rooms house a wide variety of furniture, paintings, stained glass, tapestries, armor, bladed and firearms, ancient artillery and flags that recall the splendor of its past. The purely architectural and decorative aspects are of great interest.

The Ajimeces Room stands out for its beauty; de la Galera, del Trono, with a striking Mudejar roof by Xadel Alcalde, de la Chimenea; del Cordón; of the Pineapples; the Royal Chamber; the Queen's Dressing Table and the Chapel in which we can see an altarpiece from the Castilian school from the first quarter of the 16th century and another dedicated to Santiago Apóstol, as well as the such as the Adoration of the Kings, painted in 1600 by Bartolomé Carduccio.

Of all of them, the Kings Room stands out with an extraordinary coffered ceiling of golden hexagons and rhombuses and an original frieze in which 52 polychrome and seated images represent the Kings and Queens of Asturias, León and Castilla from Don Pelayo to Juana la Loca.

All of these are arranged around two patios, the Clock Courtyard and the Parade Ground.

Another notable space is the Terraza de Reyes or del Pozo, with views of the Castilian plain, it receives its name because under the curb is the cistern that stored the water in case of siege Furthermore, in this place, the route of the Roman aqueduct ends.

It is also possible to go down to the Roman foundations and contemplate the rock where the monument sits.

In the bay opposite the palatial rooms is the Museum dedicated to the Royal College of Artillery, the oldest active military college in the world, founded by Carlos III, under the spirit of the Enlightenment, in 1764.