Seville bullring tour: €12 for the Maestranza, its museum and chapel, and the hours on bullfight days

💡 The Short Version: A visit to the Real Maestranza bullring is €12 (seniors, students and youths €7, children €4, families €29). It covers the arena, the Patio de Caballos, the bullfighters’ chapel and an exhibition hall of paintings and prints, with an audio guide on your phone. It is open daily from 9:30, and on days with a bullfight the visit runs only 9:30 to 15:00. Or book a tour: the one-hour guided tour with a fast-track ticketad is from €27.

The tickets

The Real Maestranza de Caballería runs the visit, and tickets are on visitaplazadetorosdesevilla.com. Search results for “Seville bullring tickets” include sites with the bullring’s name in their web address that say on their own pages they are independent sellers.

• Formats: the self-guided visit with an audio guide, which the ticket’s QR code downloads in Spanish, English, French, Italian and German; guided tours for groups of 20 or more; private visits; and a format for visiting with children.
• Hours: open every day from 9:30. On days with a bullfight, the visit runs from 9:30 to 15:00. The ticket office closes 30 minutes before closing.
• Season: the Real Maestranza says the bullfighting season begins by tradition on the afternoon of Easter Sunday, which is 28 March in 2027.

Tours worth paying for

The ticket includes the audio guide, and the operator’s own guided tours are for groups. For an individual booking with a guide, the tour below is the one that includes the ticket.

Bullring guided tour with a fast-track ticket

From €27 · 1 hour · 1,981 reviews

Bullring Guided Tour with a Skip-the-Line Ticketad is run by Sevilla Única in English, with a headset. It covers the museum, the horses’ courtyard, the chapel and the arena. You meet at the Glorieta Curro Romero, a small square with a statue of a bullfighter, 10 minutes before the start; entry is not allowed once the tour has begun. Bring your passport or ID, which the guide checks for senior, student and child fares. During the bullfighting season, the listing says, the arena is seen from the seats. Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

What to see

The Maestranza is a historic monument, declared an Asset of Cultural Interest, and has been part of the city since the 18th century. It stands in the Arenal district by the river, close to the Torre del Oro. The visit is a route through four parts:

The arena of the Real Maestranza. Photo: Николай Максимович, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0.

1. The arena and its stands. The Puerta del Príncipe is the ring’s best-known gate.
2. The exhibition hall. The Painting Room has oil paintings from the 18th to 20th centuries, mainly Romantic, by artists including Eugenio Lucas, Valeriano Domínguez Bécquer and Horace Vernet. The Print Room holds almost all the historical bullfighting series of the 18th and 19th centuries, including one of the earliest known images of a bullfight, by J. Stradan, from 1578. The collection runs from Goya to Jean Cocteau.
3. The costumes and memorabilia. Bullfighters’ costumes, capes, posters, bulls’ heads and contemporary paintings make up the last rooms of the hall.
4. The Patio de Caballos and the chapel. The Bullfighters’ Chapel has an altarpiece of the Virgin of the Rosary, with offerings left by bullfighters.

The main gate of the Real Maestranza. Photo: Andbog, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What to skip: the guided tour on a first look. The self-guided ticket includes the arena, the hall and the chapel.

Practical information

• Hours: every day from 9:30; 9:30 to 15:00 on days with a bullfight. The ticket office closes 30 minutes before closing.
• Where: in the Arenal, beside the river. The guided tour meets at the Glorieta Curro Romero.
• Contact: visitaturistica@realmaestranza.com for groups and questions.

The bullring is beside the Torre del Oro, which Seville museums covers with the city’s other small museums. The Real Alcázar and the Cathedral are a short walk inland. What to book before you go to Seville has the hours of every sight, and Seville in one or two days fits the bullring into a plan. The Guadalquivir river cruises leave from the jetty beside the Torre del Oro, and Seville public transport covers the tram stop at the Puerta de Jerez.