Alcázar Entry Ticket with a Downloadable Audio Guide App

An entry ticket with no group attached to it. The commentary comes as an app you download to your own phone before you go in, so there is nobody to keep up with and nothing to wait for.

That suits the Alcázar better than it suits most monuments. The palace is a set of enclosed courtyards, each one designed to be stood in, and the difference between a good visit and a rushed one is whether you can stop in the Patio de las Doncellas for ten minutes when the light moves. On a guided tour that decision is not yours.

The app covers the history and the main areas as you reach them, which means you can also skip what does not interest you, and go back to a room twice.

The palace is on the UNESCO list and holds two traditions in the same walls: Andalusi art, and the Castilian work that came after the conquest and chose to keep building in the same language.

Bring headphones. And note that the tickets are non-refundable once confirmed.