Valencia Cathedral tickets: €12 with the Holy Grail chapel, Sundays only from 14:00 and a tower that costs €3 more

💡 The Short Version: A cathedral ticket is €12 and includes the Chapel of the Holy Chalice, the Cathedral Museum and an audio guide in 10 languages. On Sundays it opens only from 14:00 to 17:30; the morning is Mass only. There is no visit on 1 and 6 January, 19 March, Palm Sunday, Good Friday, 9 October, 8 December or 25 December. The Miguelete tower is a separate €3 ticket, 207 steps, 50 people at a time, and open daily 10:00 to 18:45, which makes it the Sunday-morning plan. The 7-day Tourist Card includes the cathedral; the 24, 48 and 72-hour cards take 20% off. The GetYourGuide “fast-track” listings are guided tours. Prices are in euros. Or book a tour: the cathedral and Holy Grail tourad is from €19.50 and the old-town walk with entry to the cathedral, San Nicolás and the Lonjaad from €49 (GetYourGuide).

Tickets and prices

Prices are from the Cathedral Chapter’s own page. Buy at the ticket desk at the entrance on Plaza de la Reina. Searches for Valencia Cathedral tickets return sites that are not the cathedral.

• What it covers. The cathedral, the Chapel of the Holy Chalice and the Cathedral Museum, with an audio guide in Valencian, Spanish, Portuguese, English, Italian, French, German, Russian, Dutch and Polish.
• The Miguelete is a separate ticket, bought at the foot of the tower, and the cathedral ticket does not include it.
• Students over 16 need a student card for the reduced ticket.
• Renfe Cercanías passengers with the +RENFE&TÚ card pay the reduced price for both the cathedral and the Miguelete.
• The Valencia Tourist Card. The 7-day card includes the cathedral and its museum, and the 24, 48 and 72-hour cards take 20% off. Neither covers the Miguelete. Valencia Tourist Card: is it worth it? has the sums, and the cathedral plus IVAM pays for the 7-day card.

Where to buy

Tours worth paying for

None of these is a way past a queue. The cathedral’s page lists no queue, and a “fast-track” label here means a guided tour. Prices are the lowest “from” prices, per person.

Cathedral and Holy Grail tour

From €19.50 · 4.6 stars from 119 reviews

Valencia Cathedral & Holy Grail Tour with Fast Track Entryad is a guided tour of 85 minutes with the ticket and a headset. It costs €7.50 more than the ticket.

Cathedral, San Nicolás and Lonja walk

From €49 · 4.8 stars from 1,267 reviews

Valencia: Cathedral, St Nicholas, and Lonja de la Seda Tourad is a 3 to 4 hour guided walk with entry to all three. San Nicolás admits no visitors on Mondays, so check what the listing offers for a Monday date. The Lonja page and the hub’s closed days say what else shuts.

What to see

The cathedral was built between the 13th and 15th centuries on a Roman temple that later became a mosque. Visit València describes its styles as Romanesque at the Almoina Gate, predominantly Gothic, with some Baroque.

The Miguelete bell tower and the cathedral from the Plaza de la Reina. Photo: Mihael Grmek, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

1. The Chapel of the Holy Chalice. The cup, carved from oriental agate, has stood in this chapel since the 15th century. The cathedral calls its identification as the cup of the Last Supper a tradition. The Jubilee Year of the Holy Chalice ran from 30 October 2025 to 29 October 2026, with the cathedral as its only site.
2. The Cathedral Museum. The ticket includes it. Visit València lists canvases by Maella and Goya and relics of the old Crown of Aragon, and the cathedral’s site gives pages to the Renaissance frescoes of the main chapel and to the Borgia Chapel.
3. The Miguelete. The bell tower, built between 1381 and 1424, is 50.85 metres high. A 360-degree view over the city rewards the 207 steps, and the terrace takes 50 people at a time. The bell El Micalet, cast in 1539, weighs 7,514 kg, and the bells are still rung by hand, a tradition on UNESCO’s intangible heritage list. Visits that coincide with the ringing are booked through the bell ringers’ guild and limited to 25 people.
4. The Water Court. The Tribunal de las Aguas, which settles irrigation disputes of the Huerta, meets every Thursday at 12:00 at the cathedral’s Apostles’ Door, in the Plaza de la Virgen. It is free to watch.

The altarpiece of the Chapel of the Holy Chalice, with the Chalice in the central niche. Photo: Zarateman, Wikimedia Commons, CC0.

The order that works: the audio guide leads you round the cathedral and the museum, and the Miguelete is independent of it. On a Sunday, climb the Miguelete from 10:00 and take the cathedral from 14:00. What to skip: the fast-track tours as a queue-saver.

The Almoina Gate, the cathedral’s Romanesque doorway. Photo: Rafa Esteve, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Hours, rules and getting there

• No cultural visit on 1 January, 6 January, 19 March, Palm Sunday, Good Friday, 9 October, 8 December and 25 December. 19 March is the last night of Las Fallas.
• The Miguelete is open daily 10:00 to 18:45, with the last entry half an hour before closing.
• Getting there: Plaza de la Reina, in the old town. Buses 4, 9, 19, 81, 94, C1 and C2 stop nearby, and the Plaza de la Virgen and the Basilica of the Virgen de los Desamparados are a few steps away.
• The one thing that ruins a visit: arriving on a Sunday morning, when only Mass is held, or on 19 March, 9 October or 8 December.

What to book in Valencia has the closed days for every sight. The Lonja and the Central Market are a few minutes’ walk away. Free things to do in Valencia lists the churches that cost nothing and the views. El Carmen covers the streets north of the cathedral, and the old town walk puts the cathedral between the Central Market and San Nicolás on a route with the opening days. Valencia walking tours compares the guided options. 3 days in Valencia puts the cathedral on the old-town day. For a bed, see where to stay in Valencia.