Palacio de las Dueñas tickets: €15, free Monday afternoons, and what the palace holds

💡 The Short Version: The Palacio de las Dueñas is €15 with an audio guide, open 10:00 to 18:00 from October to March and to 19:00 from April to September; access shuts 45 minutes earlier. Non-holiday Mondays are free from 16:00, booked on the palace’s own website with a €1 fee; when the places are gone, nobody is admitted. It is closed on 25 December, 1 and 6 January, and wind above 50 km/h can close it. Buy from lasduenas.es or GetYourGuide’s listingad, which the palace sells itself at the same €15.

The tickets

The palace belongs to the Fundación Casa de Alba, and its visitor page links to the ticket shop. Search results for “Palacio de las Dueñas tickets” include sites with the palace’s name in their web address that say on their own pages they are independent sellers.

• The audio guide is an app, free to download, and the ticket includes it.
• Free Monday places are limited. The ticket is valid from 16:00 until access closes, on the day. The palace’s website must be used; once the limit is reached nobody is admitted and no ticket is sold at the door.
• Phone: +34 954 214 828, Monday to Thursday 10:00 to 18:00 and Friday 10:00 to 15:00.

Las Dueñas Palace Entry Ticket and App Guide

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The entry ticket on GetYourGuidead is sold by the palace itself at the same €15, with the app guide in English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Italian. Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead. The listing asks you to bring a passport or ID card.

Other visits

The palace sells three more visits on its own site.

Tours worth paying for

The ticket already includes an audio guide. For a guide who also covers the streets around it, the small-group walking tourad is from €22.50 for two hours, and the Alcázar, Cathedral and Giralda tourad from €53.40 puts the three big monuments in one booking.

What to see

The palace was built between the 15th and 16th centuries in a Gothic-Mudéjar and Renaissance mix, and it is a historic residence of the Casa de Alba. The collection runs to more than 1,400 works, including paintings by Sofonisba Anguissola and Joaquín Sorolla. The rooms are laid out to show how the palace looked when it was lived in.

The main courtyard of the Palacio de las Dueñas. Photo: Jl FilpoC, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. The courtyards and galleries. The audio guide takes you through the courtyards, patios and main rooms, which show the Gothic-Mudéjar and Renaissance styles side by side.
2. The chapel and the art. The collection is shown in a chapel and in opulent rooms, and includes tapestries and sculpture as well as paintings.
3. The gardens blend Renaissance and Islamic styles and hold plants and flower arrangements from around the world.

The Patio del Aceite. Photo: Jl FilpoC, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What to skip: the opera and the guided visits, unless the audio guide is not enough. The general ticket covers the palace and gardens.

Hours and rules

• October to March: 10:00 to 18:00. Access and the ticket office close at 17:15, and the palace is cleared at 17:50.
• April to September: 10:00 to 19:00. Access closes at 18:15, and the palace is cleared at 18:50.
• Closed: 25 December, 1 January and 6 January. On 5 January, 24 December and 31 December it is open until 15:00, with the last access at 14:15.
• Wind: above 50 km/h the palace can close wholly or partly for safety. The notice goes up at the door.
• Not allowed: pets other than assistance dogs, food and drink, and flash photography of the interior.
• Where: Calle Dueñas 5.

Casa de Pilatos is the other private palace, and the Real Alcázar is the royal one; the Casa de Pilatos page compares all three. Free things to do in Seville gathers the Monday windows, and What to book before you go to Seville has the hours of every sight. Seville in one or two days fits a Monday afternoon at the Dueñas into a plan, and where to stay in Seville covers the areas.