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TOUR GUIDES
MONUMENTS:
MUSEUMS:
DIDACTIC CENTRE OF THE JEWISH QUARTER
HOUSE-MUSEUM OF ANTONIO MACHADO
MUSEUM OF ART CONTEMPORANEO ESTEBAN VICENTE
RODERA-ROBLES MUSEUM- CASA DEL HIDALGO
ZULOAGA MUSEUM- CHURCH OF SAN JUAN DE LOS CABALLEROS
CHURCHES AND MONASTERIES:
SAN JUAN DE LOS CABALLEROS CHURCH
MONASTERY OF SANTA MARIA DEL PARRAL
MONASTERY OF THE CARMELITAS DESCALZOS
SANCTUARY OF THE VIRGIN OF LA FUENCISLA
MONASTERY OF SANTA CRUZ LA REAL
ART GALLERIES – EXHIBITIONS:
Segovia is a city full of ancient history, which origin dates back to Celtiberian tribes, who built it in a craggy rock made of limestone. The height of the cliff is over 1000 meters above sea level. The silhouette drawn on the Castilian clean sky has been compared, from the 16th century, to a ship made of stone, waiting for the two rivers that flow on its feet (Eresma and Clamores) to flood the valley, so it can sail to the vast sea of the plateau.
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Even to this day the origin of the city remains a mistery. We know for sure that it was inhabited in the pre-roman era. Rome left its indelible mark by building of the Aqueduct. Repopulated in 1088, Segovia gathers centuries of brilliant History. The textile industry and wool trading made the city thrive, layered in two physical and social levels: the fortified city, inhabited by noblemen and clergy, and the suburbs – in the Eresma and Clamores banks – where the productive activity was developed. During the 12th and 17th centuries, this prosperity brings about the building of many churches, convents, strongholds, palaces and other elements belonging to the monumental compound we can still enjoy nowadays. The economical decadence paralyses to a certain extent the artistic development, but favours the preservation of its monumental Patrimony. From the last decades of the 19th century, the city restores its remarkable legacy, and nowadays it is shown proudly to the visitor.
A city to enjoy calmly and to return to, Segovia. It has received every official appreciation for its artistic and monumental richness, for the transparency of its light, for the openness of the atmosphere wrapping it, and for the lushness of the encircling wood that, in contrast to the ochre colour of dry stone, enhances it as a green oasis
A Real Orden issued in a remote October the 11th of 1884, named the Aqueduct Monumento Histórico Artístico (Historical-artistic monument). This honourable name was given, as years passed by, to several monuments of the city. Finally in 1985 the UNESCO culminated the process in the naming of Segovia as a World Heritage Site.
ROADS
- BY BUS
BUS STATION
Paseo Ezequiel González, 12
Tel.: (+34) 921 436 782
LA SEPULVEDANA (Bus Company)
Tel.: (+34) 921 427 707
www.lasepulvedana.es
This service communicates the city of Segovia with Madrid, Avila and Salamanca (through Avila). It also connects Segovia with important villages of the region such as La Granja de San Ildefonso and El Espinar.
LINECAR (Bus company)
Tel.: (+34) 921 427 705
www.linecar.es
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This company offers regular travelling service between the cities of Segovia and Valladolid (through Cuellar). It also connects the city with villages such as Arevalo (Avila) and Aranda de Duero (Burgos). Makes it easier also to reach some villages, as La Lastrilla, Santa Maria La Real de Nieva, Coca, Riaza or Ayllon.
- BY CAR
National roads:
- N-110: Soria-Plasencia
- N-603: San Rafael-Segovia
- N-I / E05: Madrid - Irun (Santo Tome del Puerto)
- N-VI: Madrid-La Coruña (San Rafael)
Autonomic roads:
- CL-601 y M-601: Valladolid - Segovia - Madrid (through Navacerrada):
- CL-603: Segovia – Aranda de Duero
- CL-605: Segovia – Arevalo - Zamora
Dual carriageway:
- A-601: Valladolid-Segovia
Toll motorways:
- AP-6
- AP-61
- AP-51 links up with the village of Villacastin (Segovia) and Avila.
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BY TRAIN
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RENFE CERCANIAS |
AVE (High Speed Train) – SEGOVIA GUIOMAR |
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TRAIN STATIONS |
TRAIN STATIONS |
Further information:
RENFE
Tel.: (+34) 902 240 202
www.renfe.es
BY AIR
AIRPORTS
Closest airports to Segovia:
- Madrid, 87 km. Madrid Barajas Airport
Phone number: (+34) 91 393 60 00 /Fax: (+34) 91 393 62 00
- Villanubla (Valladolid), 125 km. Valladolid Airport.
Phone number: (+34) 983 259 212 - 16 /Fax: (+34) 983 560 180
- Salamanca, 164 km. Salamanca Airport.
Phone number: (+34) 923 306 031 / Fax: (+34) 923 306 082
-CITY BUSES
Line 1: San Jose – Colon
Line 2: San Lorenzo - Colon
Line 3: El Carmen - Colon
Line 4: Ctra. de Soria – Hospital General
Line 5: Nueva Segovia - Colon
Line 6: La Fuentecilla – Paseo del Salon
Line 7: Plaza de la Artilleria – Poligonos – Centro Comercial
Line 8: Zamarramala - Hontoria
Line 9 (Electric Bus): Plaza de la Artilleria - Alcazar
Line 10 (Night Bus): San Lorenzo – Paseo del Salon
Line 11: Pza. de la Artilleria – Estación AVE
Line 12: Estación de Autobuses – Estación AVE
Further information:
URBANOS DE SEGOVIA
Centro Comercial Almuzara
Juan Bravo, 8
Tel.: (+34) 921 46 27 27
Fax: (+34) 921 43 60 06
www.urbanosdesegovia.com
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-TAXI
RADIO TAXI
Cuenca, 6
Tel.: (+34) 921 44 50 00
 Visitor's Reception Centre |
Visitor's Reception Centre
Azoguejo, 1
Tel. (+34) 921 466 720 / 21
www.turismodesegovia.com
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From Monday to Sunday: from 10.00 am to 6.30 pm
From Holy Week to October: from Monday to Sunday from 10.00 am to 9.00 pm
Reservations online
www.reservasdesegovia.com
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 Bus Station Information Point |
Bus Station Information Point
Paseo Ezequiel González, s/n
Tel. (+34) 921 436 569
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From Wednesday to Sunday, from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm
 High Speed Train Station Information Point |
High Speed Train Station Information Point
Camino de la Ermita de Juarrillos, s/n
Tel. (+34) 921 447 262
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From Wednesday to Friday from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm
Saturday and Sunday from 10.00 am to
2.15 pm and from 4.00 to 5.45 pm
 Museum of Antonio Machado |
Museum of Antonio Machado
C/ Desamparados, 5
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From Wednesday to Sunday, from 11.00 am to 2.00 pm and from 4.00 to 6.30 pm
From Holy Week to October: from 11.00 am to 2.00 pm and from 4.00 to 7.00 pm
Exclusively by guided visits, scheduled at: 11.00 am, 12.00 am, 1.00 pm, 4.30 pm,
5.30 pm and 6.30 pm
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Didactic Centre of the Jewish Quarter
C/ Judería Vieja, nº 12
Tel. (+34) 921 462 396
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From Monday to Sunday, from 11.00 am to 2.00 pm and from 4.00 to 6.30 pm
From Holy Week to October: from 11.00 am to 2.00 pm and from 4.00 to 7.00 pm
 Informative Point of the City Walls "Door of San Andres" |
Informative Point of the City Walls "Door of San Andres"
Plaza del Socorro, s/n
Tel. (+34) 921 461 297
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Tourist information office of the Junta de Castilla y Leon
Plaza Mayor, 10
40001 Segovia
Tel. (+34) 921 46 03 34
Fax. (+34) 921 46 03 30
www.turismocastillayleon.com
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Everyday, from 9.00 to 14.00h. and from 17.00 to 20.00h.
TOUR GUIDES
MONUMENTS
 Aqueduct |
Unique and magnificent, the Aqueduct of Segovia is one of the most amazing masterpieces that Romans spread all along their vast empire. It was built to carry the water from the mountains to the city. Symbol in the crest of the city, it was legendarily said to be built by the Devil.
The hypothesis of its construction point to the first century, on the Flavian era, and also to the eras of Nerva or Trajano. But the lack of the exact data of its construction does not prevent the Aqueduct to be in the head of the classification of the best civil engineering works in Spain.
Extraordinary piece of work, where usefulness coexists with harmony and beauty, has worked for the city until just recent times. Through the ages, it has barely suffered any modification.
Only during the attack of Al-Mamun from Toledo, in 1072, 36 arches were damaged. They were restored in the 15th century by Fray Juan de Escobedo, monk from the monastery of El Parral.
From the ancient times, we can find two vaulted niches in the higher point, which probably contained pagan god's images. In the era of the Catholic Kings, they were replaced by the images of Saint Sebastian and the Holy Virgin. Under the niches, could be found an inscription in brass letters, relative to the foundation of the aqueduct. Nowadays, only the holes where the characters were attached remain.
SOME FACTS:
Its total length, from its origin in the Sierra de Guadarrama mountains, is 14.965 meters long. Its arches: 958 meters long. Its highest point: 28.10 meters. Total number of arches: 166.
Masterpiece of modern hydraulic engineering, it was built with huge blocks of granite stone from Guadarrama, and the method used is called "a hueso", which means that there are no concrete or mortar between the stones. They maintain its equilibrium by using an ingenious weight balance. Water ran on the channel at its top, and crossed the city underground until it reached the Alcazar. It was named Monumento Nacional (National Monument) in 1884 and World Heritage monument in 1985.
Azoguejo Square40001 Segovia
 Cathedral |
Its complete name is Catedral de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción and San Frutos.
Following the late Gothic Style, the construction begun in 1525 with the non-profit collaboration of segovian people, under the direction of the architects of the family Gil de Hontañon, but it was not consecrated until 1768. This cathedral worked as substitute to the Old one, which was placed in front on the Alcázar, and destroyed in the War of Las Comunidades in 1520.
On the outside, facing west, we can find the main façade, known as Door of el Perdon (Forgiveness), where we find a sculpture of the Holy Virgin by Juan Guas. On the outside it is set the Enlosado, a paved space used nowadays as a scenario for housing cultural activities. The tower, one of the most notable elements due to its height, has been inhabited until mid 20th century by the toller, and is a privileged sightseeing point to the city.
The Door of San Geroteo is opened to the south. He was the first bishop of the city. Facing north, we may find the Door of San Frutos, built in honour of the patron of the city at the beginning of the 17th century.
It has a three-nave floor-plan with transept covered with a dome, drawn by Pedro de Brizuela in the 18th century, with a semicircular apse on the head and an ambulatory, surrounded by chapels.
The grandeur and harmony on dimensions defines the inside spaces, with its beautiful glass stained windows from the 14th century, the choir, which preserves the Gothic set of chairs of the old cathedral, the baroque organs from the 18th century, the collection of grilles or the pulpitum, guarding the relics of San Frutos.
We can find 18 chapels on the inside, decorated with important paintings and sculptures. Some notable examples are the Romanesque Calvary inside the Chapel of El Sacramento; the triple painting of Ambrosius Benson and the altarpiece of La Piedad, from Juan de Juni, in the Chapel of El Santo Entierro, nearby the Door of San Frutos; and the Cristo Yacente from Gregorio Fernández.
The Museum of the Cathedral houses notable art pieces from Pedro Berruguete, Sánchez Coello and Van Orley; and the Cathedral Archives preserves more than 500 incunabula, among them, the Sinodal de Aguilafuente, the first book printed in Spain.
Plaza Mayor s/n40001 Segovia
Tel.: (+34) 921 46 22 05
Fax: (+34) 921 46 06 94
TIMETABLE
October-March: de 9:30 a 17:30 h
April- September: de 9:30 a 18:30 h
PRICES
General: 3 €Groups with more than 20 people: 2 €Free: Sundays from 9.30 am to 1.15 pm
 Alcazar |
Its silhouette appears as an imaginary ship over the confluence of the rivers Eresma and Clamores, laced by the scenario of ochre and blue colours of the plain and the mountains. Before entering, you will find a beautiful garden, housing the monument for the Heroes of the Spanish Independence War, Daoiz and Velarde, made by the segovian sculptor Aniceto Marinas. On the left, you can come in the Casa de la Quimica (House of Chemistry), built in the Era of Enlightenment, and used as investigation centre by the chemist Louis Proust.
A deep moat with a drawbridge gives us entrance to a fortress situated in a privileged place, which was possibly inhabited from the Celtic era. The castle, built over the remains of a Roman fortress, was successively transformed from Alfonso VI (11th century) to Felipe II (16th century). It became an Alcazar – Royal residence – in the 13th century; it obtains its final gothic appearance in Juan II and Enrique IV ages. It worked as State Prison in the 18th century, and became Royal College of Artillery in 1764. Its restoration has been continuous after the serious fire that took place in 1862, that almost destroyed the castle completely. Nevertheless, in 1882 and being Alfonso XII the king, the reconstruction works started, lasting until the present time by the Patronato del Alcazar, which has restored coffered ceilings, friezes, altarpieces and walls. Almost the entire building can be visited, including the rooms devoted to the History of Artillery, General Military Archives of Spain.
In the northern angle we can see the small tower of Alfonso X 'the wise', where the king studied the firmament, and the Tower of Juan II, 80 meters high, decorated with beautiful esgrafiados and twelve turrets. The visitor can climb to the top of the tower to enjoy the magnificent views of the city and the Pinarillo (wood that contains the Jewish cemetery), the church of Vera Cruz, the medieval neighbourhoods of San Marcos and Zamarramala, and the quarry from where most of the limestone used in building the Cathedral was taken.
Inside the monument and around the Patio de Armas - where periodically chamber music concerts are housed - and the Patio del Reloj, we can find the rooms. Particularly notable for their beauty, we must pay attention to the Ajimeces Room; the Galera Room – which coffered ceiling has been recently rebuilt – the Throne Room – with an outstanding mudejar ceiling; the Chimney Room; the Cord Room; the Pineapples Room; the Royal Chamber; the Queen's Dressing Room and the Chapel. Above everyone, the Kings Chamber stands out, containing an extraordinary coffered ceiling made of golden hexagons and rhomboids, and a curious frieze displaying 52 sitting images, polychromed, of the Kings and Queens of Asturias, Leon and Castilla from Don Pelayo to the Queen Juana I.
Plaza de la Reina
Victoria Eugenia s/n
40003 Segovia
Tel.: (+34) 921 46 07 59 (+34) 921 46 04 52
Fax: (+34) 921 46 07 55
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TIMETABLE
-April-September 10.00 am to 7.00 pm
- October-March 10.00 am to 6.00 pm
October: Wednesday and Saturday: Summer opening time.
The rest of the week: Winter opening time.
PRICES
General: 4 €Reduced: 3 € (Students, People over 65, Cultural Associations, Travel Agencies)Tower of Juan II: 2 €Guided visits: supplement 1 €Segovian people 1 €Free: 3rd Tuesday of the month, citizens of the EU (in non-festivities)Groups: appointment required.
MUSEUMS
DIDACTIC CENTRE OF THE JEWISH QUARTER (House of Andres Laguna-House of Abraham Seneor)
 Didactir Centre of the Jewish Quarter |
It is set inside the house of Abraham Seneor, where also lived the distinguished doctor Andres Laguna, personal physician to Carlos I and pope Julio III. The family crest we can find in the façade belongs to the Mexia de Tovar family. Inside this centre, and using the latest audiovisual technology, the visitor will deepen in the study of the different aspects of Jewish medieval culture, tracing an imaginary path through their history and customs. The aim of the centre is to allow a deeper comprehension on this culture, which for centuries was an important part of our society. The visitor can also find a vast collection of bibliography specialized in Hebraic issues.
C/ Judería Vieja, 12
40001 Segovia
Tel.: (+34) 921 46 23 96
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TIMETABLE
From Monday to Sunday, from 11.00 am to 2.00 pm and from 4.00 to 6.30 pm
From Holy Week to October: from 11.00 am to 2.00 pm and from 4.00 to 7.00 pm
PRICES
General: 2 €
Reduced and groups 1.50 €
Free: Wednesday
DOOR OF SAN ANDRES (Informative Space of the City Walls)
 Informative Space of the City Walls |
On the inner rooms of the Door of San Andres, on the old Guard Room, the visitor can get into the Informative Space of the City Walls where, through different panels, the history of the medieval walls is written. It is offered also the possibility of climbing to the rampart, to enjoy the sightseeing of the Jewish quarter and the military medieval architecture of the city, along with the Jewish cemetery traced on the opposite bank of the Clamores Valley. The monument is also known as Arco del Socorro.
C/ Martinez Campos, s/n
40001 Segovia
Tel.: (+34) 921 46 12 97
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MUSEUM OF SEGOVIA – Casa del Sol (House of the Sun)
 Museum of Segovia |
The Museum of Segovia, previously Regional Museum of Arts, dates back to 1842. It was made up of pieces of art coming from the convents closed by the Desamortizacion of Mendizabal which were not considered to be driven to the current Museum of El Prado.
After being placed in several buildings, the City gave the State an old building, the old slaughterhouse, working for that purpose from the time of Enrique IV, so-called Casa del Sol (House of the Sun). The exhibition is distributed in six rooms around the courtyard, where pieces of all ages are displayed. The first room, working as an introduction, is devoted to the territory’s geology and landscape, which explanations are supported in a huge model of the region and an audiovisual production.
In the second room we may find objects that belong to the period between Prehistory and the Late Middle Ages, including sections devoted to Roman world and the Aqueduct.
Among the collection, it’s worth highlighting two Celtiberian verracos (huge statues of bulls or wild boars), Roman mosaics, Visigoth enamels or a broad series of wooden paintings from castilian artists from the 15th and 16th centuries; along with interesting collections of coins moulded in the segovian Mint, glass pieces from La Granja, religious sculptures, engravings from Durero, Rembrandt and other authors, and contemporary paintings.
C/ Socorro, 11
40001 Segovia
Tel.: (+34) 921 46 06 13
Fax: (+34) 921 46 05 80
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TIMETABLE
October-June: from Tuesday to Saturday: from 10.00 am to 2.00 pm and from 4.00 to 7.00 pm Sunday: from 10.00 am to 2.00 pm
July-September: from Tuesday to Saturday: from 10.00 am to 2.00 pm and from 5.00 to 8.00 pm Sunday: from 10.00 am to 2.00 pm
PRICE
General: 1.20 €
Reduced: 0.60 €
Saturday, Sunday and festivities: Free
People older than 65, students, groups, children up to 14 years old and members of the ICOM: Free
HOUSE-MUSEUM OF ANTONIO MACHADO
 House-Museum of Antonio Machado |
It was back in 1919 when the poet Antonio Machado came to Segovia for occupying a chair in the High School of the city. From that moment on, until he left Segovia in 1932, he rented a room in a house of the Desamparados street that, as time went by, was bought by the Academy of History and Arts of San Quirce, turning it into a permanent remembrance of the poet.
It’s a museum made for the most intimate evocation. The humble house remains as nude as it should have been when Antonio inhabited the place, and still preserves the same furniture. The room he occupied remains untouched, and from the walls, as for materializing his absence, hangs a collection of old pictures, along with paintings, drawings and posters which wear the signature of artists such as Rafael Peñuelas, Jesus Unturbe, Alvaro Delgado or Pablo Picasso.
C/ Desamparados, 540001 Segovia
Tel. – Fax: (+34) 921 46 38 96
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TIMETABLE
From Wednesday to Sunday, from 11.00 am to 2.00 pm and from 4.00 to 6.30 pm
From Holy Week to October: from 11.00 am to 2.00 pm and from 4.00 to 7.00 pm
Exclusively by guided visits, scheduled at: 11.00 am, 12.00 am, 1.00 pm, 4.30 pm,
5.30 pm and 6.30 pm
PRICES
General: 2 €
Reduced and groups: 1.50 €
Wednesday Free
MUSEUM OF ART CONTEMPORANEO ESTEBAN VICENTE
 Museum of art Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente |
Opened in 1998, this museum is devoted to Esteban Vicente, an artist born in the segovian village of Turegano, educated in Madrid, sent into exile due to the Civil War, and the only Spanish member of the first generation of the New York School of American Abstract Expressionism. The collection is composed by oil paintings, collages, drawings, watercolours and sculptures by the artist, donated by him and his wife, Harriet Gotfried.
The exhibition of this Permanent Collection alternates with Temporal Exhibitions and diverse activities such as conferences, recitals and concerts.
The museum was set in the former Palace of Enrique IV Trastamara, built in the beginning of the 15th century by Juan II for his son. In 1518 it was transformed into a Hospital de Viejos (old people’s home), which chapel is preserved inside. Lately, it was converted into a Noble Arts School.
Pza. de las Bellas Artes, s/n
40001 Segovia
Tel.: (+34) 921 46 20 10
Fax: (+34) 921 46 22 77
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TIMETABLE
Closed on Monday.
Tuesday and Wednesday: 11.00 am to 2.00 pm and 4.00 to 7.00 pm
Thursday and Friday: 11.00 am to 2.00 pm and 4.00 to 8.00 pm
Saturday, Sunday and festivities: 11.00 am to 8.00 pm
PRICES
General: 3 €
People older than 65 and students: 1.50€Free Thursday, ‘Amigos del museo’ card and members of the ICOM
RODERA-ROBLES MUSEUM- CASA DEL HIDALGO
 Rodera-Robles Museum-Casa del Hidalgo |
Set up inside the Casa del Hidalgo, noblemen’s house built between the 15th and 16th centuries. Presently, it houses the collection of paintings of the Rodera-Robles Foundation, made mainly of local artist’s works and other linked in any way with the region, like the Tablada family, Unturbe, Eduardo Vicente, E. Navarro, Nuñez Losada and Nuñez de Celis, Rafael Peñuelas, or the Zubiaurre brothers. It also has paintings from famous artists such as J. Sorolla, Beruete, Fortuny and ceramics from the workshops of Zuloaga. The building shows also a Permanent Exhibition on the traditional devices for carving, and some rooms for housing Temporal Exhibitions on Graphic Design.
This was one of the buildings used in the past as Museum of the Region.
C/ San Agustin, 1240001 Segovia
Tel.: (+34) 921 46 02 07
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TIMETABLE
Tuesday to Saturday: 10.30 am to 2.00 pm and 5.00 to 7.00 pm
Sunday: 10.30 am to 2.00 pm
PRICES
General: 1.50 €
Reduced: 1 € (Groups from 10 people)
Wednesday free.
ZULOAGA MUSEUM- CHURCH OF SAN JUAN DE LOS CABALLEROS
 Zuloaga Museum |
It is set up inside the ancient church of San Juan de los Caballeros (11th-13th centuries). Structured in three naves with a three-headed apse. It also has arcades heading south and west. In the last one, it’s worth pointing out the Gothic doorway. It preserves remains of a Visigoth church (6th century)
It was saved from collapsing by the artist Daniel Zuloaga, who set up there his workshop.
In the museum, the visitor can find paintings from Ignacio Zuloaga, and oil paintings, watercolour paintings and ceramics of Daniel and his sons. Inside the church we may find also the burials of the Nobles Linajes (Noble Lineages) people, to whose founders, Fernan Garcia and Dia Sanz, the legend attributes the conquest of Madrid.
Pza. de Colmenares, s/n
40001 Segovia
Tel.: (+34) 921 463 348
Fax: (+34) 921 460 580
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TIMETABLE
From Tuesday to Saturday: 10.00 am to 2.00 pm and 4.00 to 7.00 pm
Sunday and festivities: 10.00 am to 2.00 pm
July, august and September: 5.00 to 8.00 pm
Closed on Mondays.
CLOSED ON JANUARY THE 1st AND THE 6th, JUNE THE 29th, OCTOBER THE 25th, AND DECEMBER THE 24th, THE 25th AND THE 31st
PRICES
General: 1.20 €
Saturday and Sunday: Free
People older than 65, students, groups, children up to 14 years old and members of the ICOM: Free
It was created in 1824 by the Bishop Manuel Castro Alonso, and set up in several rooms attached to the cloister. One of them is the Chapel of Santa Catalina, where we will find paintings of Flemish and Spanish painters. Either anonymous, as the Maestro de los Claveles or the Maestro de la Santa Sangre, or known, as Bernard van Orley, Marinus van Reymerswale, Pedro Berruguete, Luis de Morales, Alonso de Herrera or Antonio Maria Esquivel (the last one is the author to the historic painting "San Francisco de Borja ante Carlos V"). The collection on this room is also composed of notable pieces of gold and silver work, as well as the processional monstrance, made by the silver work master of the 17th century Rafael Gonzalez, native of Toledo.
Inside the Chapter House, covered with a marvellous renaissance ceiling that, according to the legend, is decorated with the first gold brought from America, stands out a magnificent series of tapestries, complemented with the ones hanging from the stairs leading to the Library. In there, it is set the best complement to this museum, the Archives, which holds documentation from the 13th century on, such as the library donated to the Cathedral by the Bishop Arias Davila, ancient songbooks, incunabula, and two priceless editorial jewels: the Cancionero de la Catedral, anthology of songs from Castilla and other European regions in the late 15th century, and the Sinodal de Aguilafuente, printed in Segovia by Juan Parix in 1472 and, therefore, the first book to be printed in Spain.
C/ Marqués del Arco, 1
40001 Segovia
Tel.: (+34) 921 462 205
Fax: (+34) 921 460 694
TIMETABLE
October-March: from 9.30 am to 5.30 pm
April-September: from 9.30 am to 6.30 pm
PRICE
General: 3 €
Groups over 20 pp: 2 €
Segovian people: Free.
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The magnificent temple is an actual sample of Castilian Romanesque art from the 12th century. Defined by a triple arcade of columns, three apses, and a mudejar tower occupying the space of the dome, covered by a baroque roof and rebuilt in the 14th century. We must pay special attention to the carved capitals, the marble plaque displaying the image of Saint Martin outside of the apse, and the four column-statues of the façade. On the inside, the visitor can find a triptych from the Flemish artist Adrian Isembrandt, several paintings of the primitive Castilian artist known as the Maestro de las 11.000 virgenes, a sculpture of a Lying Christ attributed to Gregorio Fernández and one of San Francisco from Pedro de Mena.
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Following the cobbled paving of the narrow San Nicolas street, we end up in a quiet spot where we find the Church of la Santisima Trinidad, built in mid 12th century over an older temple, belonging to the 11th. Its structure displays one nave and is headed by a simple apse. The tower was built over the transept. The arcade faces south. On the inside, the visitor can find a Gothic chapel belonging to the Del Campo family, and important works of art by Ambrosius Benson or Giacomo di Pontormo. This is one of the best-preserved temples of the city, with a humble and genuine interior housing important works of art.
SAN JUAN DE LOS CABALLEROS CHURCH
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Belonging to the late 11th century, is one of the oldest churches in Segovia and was probably built over a pre-Christian basilica, from which it maintains the religious space distribution. The name of San Juan de los Caballeros (of the Noblemen) comes from the fact of housing the burials of the Nobles Linajes (Noble Lineages) of the city.
In 1905 the artist Daniel Zuloaga bought and restored it, using the church as his home and workshop on ceramic, and lately into the museum of the Zuloaga family, displaying a collection of ceramic pieces and documents. The building and museum belongs in the present time to the country. In the encircling garden and enclosure, commonly known as "Los Zuloagas", cultural activities are housed in summer.
Tel.: (+34) 921 46 33 48
TIMETABLE
October-June: from Tuesday to Saturday: 10:00 to 14:00h and 16:00 to 19:00h.
Sunday: 10:00 to 14:00h.
July-September: from Tuesday to Saturday: 10:00 to 14:00h and 17:00 to 20:00h.
Sunday: 10:00 to 14:00h
PRICES
General: 1,20€
Reduced: 0,60€
Saturday, Sunday and festivities: free
Free: people older than 65 years, students, groups min. 15 pp and members of ICOM.
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This church was the result of late Romanesque architecture, presents a three-nave structure and an apse modified in the baroque period. The arcade and the tower, declared National Monument in 1896, were added in the 13th century. The tower is considered one of the most beautiful among the Romanesque ones. After suffering a fire in 1896, it was dismembered and rebuilt in the early 20th century, replacing its baroque slate roof with a tiled one. All these difficulties did not lessen the elegance of the tower, an unmistakable milestone in the silhouette of the city.
Inside the church, it’s worth highlighting a Gothic Calvary, brought from the church of Santiago, which has not survived to these days.
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One of the most important temples, model to segovian Romanesque churches because it contains all the characteristics of their kind: Islamic influence (decorations and vaults on caliphal style), arcades used as meeting points (instead of the colonnades of squares), and slender belfries drawing a peculiar profile on the city. Built following the example of the Cathedral of Jaca, its tower still preserves the remains of a former mozarabe building.
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Near to the Aqueduct we can find a hidden jewel of the Romanesque architecture. Built in the 13th century, it has one of the few sculpted tympanums of the segovian Romanesque architecture, a slender tower and a collection of magnificent paintings in its apse, dominated by a Pantocrator, and displaying scenes about the Passion of Christ and the life of its patron saints.
Tel.: (+34) 921 42 24 13
TIMETABLE
Monday to Saturday: 10:45 to 13:45h and 16:00 to 19:00h (data may change)
PRICE
Ticket: Free-will offering
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On the way to Zamarramala we can find the church of Vera Cruz, founded by the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre in 1208, although the legend attributes its establishment to the Order of the Temple.
The building, with a twelve-sided floor-plan distributed around a central room, has three apses. It is inspired in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, and its nave is very sober and thrilling, wrapped in a mysterious veil. The two floors are decorated with groin vaults, Muslim style, and still show remains of wall paintings. The church guarded in the past a relic of the True Cross (known as lignum crucis), and belongs presently to the Order of Malta.
Tel.: (+34) 921 43 14 75
TIMETABLE
Spring-Summer:
Tuesday evening to Sunday: 10:30 - 13:30h and 16:00 - 19:00h.
Fall-Winter:
Tuesday evening to Sunday: 10:30 - 13:30h y 16:00 - 18:00h.
PRICES
Ticket: 2 €
Groups bigger than 20 pp: 1,25 €
Tuesday evening: Free
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Convent of the Corpus Christi (Former Main Synagogue)
It has been a sacred place for two religions: Christian and Jewish. It was used as synagogue until 1410, when it was seized from the Jewish community.
The praying room, built in the 14th century, has a rectangular floor-plan divided into three naves, with late additions of the presbytery and the choir. The nave division is solved by two rows of five horseshoe arches each. We can marvel at the beauty of its capitals.
It was the principal of the five synagogues the Jewish community had in the city. It contains notable altarpieces moved from the dissolved convent of San Francisco.
It is peculiar to find such a mixture of both religions combining Christian decoration (composed on various altarpieces devoted to San Francisco de Asis) and paintings, and the architecture of the former Main Synagogue of the Jewish Quarter of Segovia.
The building suffered a fire in 1889, and was completely restored in 2004, recovering its original appearance. Nowadays, it houses a convent of the Order of Saint Clara.
Tel.: (+34) 921 46 34 29
TIMETABLE
From Wednesday to Sunday: 11:00 - 13:00h and 17:00 - 19:00 h
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Enrique IV, who had in the building a hunting palace, donated it in 1455 to the Franciscan monks. When that order left in 1488, it was occupied by nuns belonging to the Order of Saint Clara. Tracing an angle with the Plateresque façade, decorated with the praying sculptures of the Catholic Kings, we find the doorway of the temple, carved in renaissance Gothic style on three layered arches: segmental, ongee and clover-shaped, under Moorish eaves.
Inside the temple we can find two pieces of art that justify our visit to the monastery: a spectacular coffered ceiling closing the Main Chapel, and a breathtaking altarpiece unique in its genre, a Flemish piece from the 15th century displaying, through diverse scenery, the Passion of Christ.
On the monastic part opened to visitors, we will able to visit the Vestry, the Throne Room and the Chapter House, covered with amazing coffered ceilings; the Refectory, containing a beautiful pulpit decorated in the mudejar style; and the Gothic-mudejar cloister. Three triptychs made on pipe sand from the Utrecht school, and several collections of documents, sculptures, paintings and furniture complete the visit.
Tel.: (+34) 921 42 02 28
TIMETABLE
Tuesday to Saturday: 10:00 - 14:00h and 16:00 - 19:00h.
Sunday: 10:00 - 14:00h
PRICE
General: 2 €
Groups bigger than 20pp: 1.50€
Groups need to arrange a date previously
MONASTERY OF SANTA MARIA DEL PARRAL
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This monastery, built by command of Enrique IV in 1447, though the legend attributes its foundation to his Court favourite Juan de Pacheco, Marquis of Villena, is composed by a conjunction of buildings laid out around several cloisters (Gothic, Mudéjar and Plateresque-styled).
Deserted after the Desamortizacion of 1836 and victim to sacking, its rebuilding came after being declared Monumento Nacional in 1914 and being occupied again by monks from the Hieronymus Order in 1927.
Over the façade of the church, unfinished, we may highlight the coat of arms of the Pacheco family, and a graceful tower crowned by a Plateresque crest, made by the segovian artist Juan Campero. The inside shows a single-nave floor-plant, tribune to the feet, lateral chapels and a polygonal apse, following the example of the typical constructions from the Hieronymus, built by Juan Guas.
Among the exceptional works of art inside this temple stand out the doorway to the vestry, the grave of Beatriz Pacheco and the Apostle Group surrounding the high apse windows, made by the sculptor Sebastian de Almonacid. We must also pay attention to the Plateresque set formed by the main altarpiece carved in wood, and the monumental sculptures of Juan Pacheco and his wife, Maria de Portocarrero, carved by the sculptors Juan Rodriguez and Lucas Giraldo.
Tel.: (+34) 921 43 12 98
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TIMETABLE
Tuesday evening to Sunday: 10:00 - 12:30h and 16:15 - 18:30h.
PRICE
Ticket: Free-will offering
MONASTERY OF THE CARMELITAS DESCALZOS
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Located in the vicinity of the Sanctuary of the Virgen of la Fuencisla, and close to the Church of Vera Cruz, the convent is a brilliant example of the 17th century architecture.
A stone stairway, imitating the ascension to the Mount Carmel, drives us into the convent, founded by San Juan de la Cruz in 1586 over a previous Trinitary one, settled in 1206. The mystic writer ruled the monastery from 1587 to 1591 and his sepulchre is found on the inside, maybe too luxurious, in contrast with his humble and modest life. He loved to climb the carved path up the cliff, called Peñas Grajeras, where we can still find a little chapel advocated to Santa Teresa, spiritual shelter of the Saint. The old trunk of a cypress tree, that San Juan himself planted, are still rooted in the ground.
The remains of the Saint lay in a luxurious sepulchre, intended as a reflection not of his life, but of his grandeur as writer and mystic. It was designed by Felix Granada, and set in 1927, as homage to the two hundred years of his canonization.
Outside of this chapel the visitor will find, to the left, the modest church in which apse is displayed a modern and gigantic altarpiece, composed by nine paintings inspired on the poetic Works of San Juan de la Cruz, painted by the Mexican Carmelite Gerardo Lopez Bonilla, on the occasion of the visit of the Pope Juan Pablo II in 1982.
Tel.: (+34) 921 43 13 49 / (+34) 921 43 19 61
TIMETABLE
April -September: 10:00 - 13:30h and 16:00 - 20:00h.
October-March: 10:00 - 13:30h and 16:00 - 19:00h
Closed on Monday mornings
PRICE
Ticket: Free-will offering
SANCTUARY OF THE VIRGIN OF LA FUENCISLA
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She is the patron virgin of the Comunidad de Ciudad y Tierra de Segovia. Built between the years of 1598 and 1613 by Francisco de Mora, being too small the renaissance enlargement of the primitive medieval chapel. In the apse we can discover an altarpiece of the sculptor De la Torre, as well as a notable baroque grille closing the presbytery and donated by the Gremio de Pañeros (Union of Textile Workers).
Tel.: (+34) 921 43 31 85
TIMETABLE
October – Mach: 8:30 - 18:30h.
April - September: 8:30 - 20:00h.
PRICE
Free
MONASTERY OF SANTA CRUZ LA REAL
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Belongs to the 13th- 15th centuries. It is a convent from the Order of St Domingo originally built in a Romanesque style (1218). It was rebuilt under the government of the Catholic Kings to honour St Domingo de Guzman with a convent, over the Penitential Cave of the Saint. We can see on the outside a Gothic doorway from the 15th century, work of Juan Guas. In the present times, houses the Instituto Empresa Universidad.
ART GALLERIES – EXHIBITIONS
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Built in the 15th century, it belonged to the La Hoz family, whom family crest is shown repeatedly in the façade. The diamond peak decoration (from where the building takes its name) has a defensive and ornamental purpose. Tracing an angle with the façade, it opened in the ancient times the Door of San Martin, main access to the city fortress in medieval times, and demolished in 1883. In the present times, it houses the School of Arts and an art exhibition gallery.
C/ Juan Bravo, 33
40001 Segovia
Tel.: (+34) 921 46 26 74
Tel.: (+34) 921 46 00 41
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TIMETABLE
October-March: Monday to Friday: 12:00 - 14:00 h. and 18:00 - 20:00 h.
April-September:12:00 - 14:00 h. and 19:00 - 21:00 h.
PRICE
Free
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Built in the 16th century, it was originally used as grain silo of the city (posito), which coat of arms is repeated in the façade. It preserves the original structure typical to its function. In the present time it houses the Archives of the City and several multiple purpose rooms.
Plaza de la Alhóndiga, 1
40001 Segovia
Tel.: (+34) 921 46 27 79
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www.segovia.es
TIMETABLE
- Exhibition Rooms: depending on the exhibition opening times.
- Municipal Archives: Monday to Friday: 9:00 to 15:00 h.
PRICE
Free.
It is an old house from the 15th century (that is what its popular name means), old Tordesillas family courtyard and an excellent example of urban nobility house. Antiguo patio de los Tordesillas, ejemplo de residencia nobiliaria urbana. The plateresque arcade was built in the 16th century.
Juan Bravo, 32
Tel.: (+34) 921 46 26 45
Fax:(+34) 921 46 26 45
TIMETABLE
Commercial opening hours: 10:00 to 14:00h and 17:00h to 20:00h
PRICES
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Built in the 14th-16th centuries, as a stronghold, it was reformed by Francisco de Eraso, secretary to King Felipe II, in the mid 16th century. Inside, we find a Renaissance courtyard, and a garden on the back part surrounded by a gallery. It houses the exhibition rooms of the regional bank, Caja Segovia.
Plaza San Martín, 5
40001 Segovia
Tel.: (+34) 921 46 24 61
www.obrasocialcajasegovia.com
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TIMETABLE
Tuesday to Friday: 18:00 to 21:00h.
Saturday, Sunday and festivities: 12:00 to 14:00h and 18:00 to 21:00h.
PRICE
FreeSEGOVIA MINT - Real Ingenio de la Moneda
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Particular example of industrial architecture, it was founded in 1583 by the King Felipe II. Juan de Herrera designed its structure and directed the building works. This was the first mechanical mint of the State. During its most productive era, it had 14 hydraulic waterwheels, used for propelling a sophisticated set of machinery for moulding.
TOWER OF ARIAS DAVILA
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Dates back to the 15th century, when it was the palace of the Arias Davila family. The tower is covered with many different designs of esgrafiado. It preserves original coffered ceilings, and houses nowadays the Regional Delegation of Treasury Department.
ARTILLERY ACADEMY – Former Convent of San Francisco
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Belongs to the 15th-19th centuries. Built over the former church of San Benito, the building preserves the Gothic-Renaissance cloister. In 1862, it was occupied by the Royal College of Artillery.
JEWISH CEMETERY
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This was the graveyard of the Jewish Quarter of Segovia. Is located all over a hill known as “el Pinarillo”, along the Clamores valley. Human-shaped graves and funerary mounds carved in stones have been preserved until the present day.
Registration and reservation:
Centro de Recepcion de Visitantes – Central de Reservas
(Tourist Reception Centre – Reservation Centre)
Azoguejo, 1. Tel.: (+34) 921466720
On-line reservations: www.reservasdesegovia.com
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Foreign language groups: reservation required.
World Heritage Route: it is, perhaps, the most representative route of the city. It drives the visitor along the main streets of the ancient city. The route starts on the feet of the Aqueduct, walking by the main street of the city - Calle Real-. The first stop is the sightseeing point of la Canaleja and close to the surprising Casa de los Picos (Peak’s House). Leaving behind the Medina del Campo square and the Romanesque church of San Martin we will reach the Corpus Square dominated by the former Main Synagogue, converted nowadays into the Catholic Church of Corpus Christi. Later on, we will find the Main Square, the Cathedral, and further on the House-Museum of Antonio Machado and the Canonjias quarter. The guide ends with an inner explanation of the Alcazar.
Estimated length: 2 hours and a half.
Through the Jewish Quarter of Segovia: it is a route traced through the narrow and winding streets of the Jewish Quarter, recalling the historical legacy of the city visiting the former Main Synagogue, the Centro Didactico de la Juderia (Didactic Centre of the Jewish Quarter) and the Door of San Andrés.
Estimated length: 2 hours and a quarter.
The Eresma: Patrimony and landscape of a valley: The Eresma valley has a well deserved fame not only because of the mysticism of the Holy Places it houses, but also for the grandeur of its panoramic views of the Alcazar and the valley. The valley houses with great pride religious monuments such as the Church of the Vera Cruz (copy of the Holy Sepulchre Church of Jerusalem) or the Hieronymous Monastery of El Parral (with its cloisters and church). The route ends in the Square of San Lorenzo, living example of our medieval past.
Estimated length: 2 hours and a half.
Little charming museums in the Knights’ Quarter: the north-western side of the Old City houses the Knights’ Quarter, where noblemen lived from the 11th century. The whole tour will be spilled with churches or private houses like the Zuloaga Museum, the Rodera Robles Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Arts Esteban Vicente.
Estimated length: 2 hours and a quarter.
Segovia outside the walls. “In the shadow of the Arches” This route rediscovers the Aqueduct and brings us the possibility of getting inside its cleaning houses, ending in one of our most singular monasteries, San Antonio el Real, former hunting palace of Enrique IV. The tour also offers us the visit to the church of San Justo, famous for its Romanesque wall paintings and the sculpture of The Christ of los Gascones.
Estimated length: 2 hours and a quarter.
Along the City Walls: We will walk through centuries of history to learn about the diverse cultures that lived in Segovia, and we will marvel at the amazing views from the broad stone viewpoints. The tour includes the entrance to some of the wall doors, such as the Door of San Andrés, were the visitor can find the Centro de Interpretacion de la Muralla (Interpretation Centre of the City Walls) and the Door of Santiago, as well as the Jardin de los Poetas (Poet's Garden).Estimated length: 2 hours and a half.
Sightseeing Tour of Segovia by Bike: Accompanied by a tour guide, we start walking from the Centro de Recepcion de Visitantes (Tourist Reception Centre) to begin with a calm route by bike from the Heights of La Piedad to the San Lorenzo quarter. All along the way, we will enjoy with marvellous landscapes and exceptional sightseeing.
Estimated length: 2 hours and a half.
Legendary sightseeing tour: Discover, travelling by the tourist bus, how the night brings the hidden legends that have forged the personality of this city.
This tour is designed for families, bringing joy for both through numerous games and activities. Let's enjoy Segovia in an amusing way! Travel through History hand by hand with a peculiar character, the muleteer Claudio: from ancient Rome, by building the Aqueduct, to the Middle Ages, participating actively in the proclamation of Isabel la Catolica as Queen of Castilla, nearby the Main Square.
Estimated length: 1 hour and a half.
Notes:
- These guides are not designed for prearranged groups.
- We recommend wearing comfortable shoes.
- Inscription allowed until 15 minutes before the scheduled start.
- Singularly, the routes and hours may change for reasons beyond the control of Turismo de Segovia.
- The adverse weather may determine the execution of the tours.
Prices:
General: 12,50€
Reduced: 9.20€ (children from 6 years old, students younger than 25 years and retired people with any documentation justifying the condition)
Free: children younger than 5 years old, except in the Legendary Sightseeing Tour where the free age is until 3 years old)
These prices include the tickets to the main monuments. Participants should wear the badge given at the beginning of the tour, and also must preserve the ticket to the end of the tour. The starting point is set in the Centro de Recepcion de Visitantes with a minimum participation required of 4 people and a maximum number of 40, except in the Sightseeing Tour by Bike where it will be of 10.
The user who wishes to use the service of bicycle rental, can register in any of the Tourist Offices of Segovia.
To rent a bicycle, the user must own a cell phone and send a sms writing the code of the bicycle, the code of the padlock and the secret code given in the registration process.
In less than seconds, the system will unlock the padlock and it will allow the user to ride the bicycle and enjoy the ride.
Price: 3€ per day.
Service available from March to October.
The visitor will contemplate the city as nobody has seen it before. From the Aqueduct to Casa Cándido. From the Alcazar to the Church of Vera Cruz. And the Segovia Mint, the Jewish Quarter, the riverbank quarters, the neighbourhood of Zamarramala... in an hour, you will be able to run through 2.000 years of history listening to recorded explanations in 6 languages so, wherever you come from, you will be sure of not missing a detail.
Estimated length: 1 hour.
Ticket sale: Central de Reservas - Centro de Recepcion de Visitantes (Reservation Centre – Tourist Reception Office), by the feet of the Aqueduct.
From July the 1st to September the 5th.
Languages: Spanish, English, French, Japanese, German and Italian.
LEAVING HOURS FROM THE AQUEDUCT:
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- General: 5,70€
- Reduced: 4,25€ (Children from 3 to13, and people older than 65)
- Groups bigger than 20 people: 4,50€
- Free: Children younger than 2 years old.
http://www.urbanosdesegovia.com/index2.htm
The audio guides will allow the user to design his own tour through Segovia. Comfortably, at his own pace and time.
The visitor has several routes proposed in the device, gathering the most emblematic places of the city. We offer a pleasant description of the monuments, historical events, its main characters, etc.
Audio guides are sound files available in an MP3 device available for rent by Turismo de Segovia.
The recordings will be available in several languages.
Prices:
1 day: 10€
2 days: 15€
3 days: 20€
THE ERESMA AND THE CLAMORES VALLEYS
Turismo de Segovia offers the possibility of visiting the city by taxi. The route proposed is approximately one hour long, including the most important places of the city. The Tourist Taxi will show the visitor to discover the places that allow Segovia to be a World Heritage City. Along with the reservation, the visitor will receive all the documentation necessary to follow the explanations on the route, and get make the experience worthwhile.
*Tours along the region, under reservation and depending on availability.
The Great Roman Aqueduct of Segovia is the most important, loved and broadly known monument by both the segovians and the visitors.
In this microsite the visitor may find wider and more detailed information on the monument, as well as the activities, events and the latest news. You may also find information on the guided visits designed to enjoy and learn about our Aqueduct.
In this site you will find information about the diverse museums and centres to visit in the Jewish Quarter of Segovia, the activities and events that take place through the year (housed in the Didactic Centre of the Jewish Quarter or in the quarter itself), historical information, videos about the activities or featuring important personalities related to the Jewish environment, etc
Inside the segovian kitchens, typical ingredients collected from the fertile surrounding soil have been cooked for centuries, resulting in delicious recipes.
Bread, excellent due to the quality of grain cultivated in our fields; milk, the basis for our cheese; the beans of La Granja; the tender lechazo (roasted young lamb) or the roasted suckling pig, complete our offering of meat, along with thousands of products obtained from the pig. Rivers make other contributions to our meals, such as the delicious trout, or by irrigating our orchards, full of nutritious seasonal fruits and vegetables. We finish our menu with delectable desserts like rosquillas, florones, hojuelas or the famous ponche segoviano.
A traditional segovian meal is not complete without the exquisite wines produced in our region as the White wines from Nieva (Blanco de Nieva) or the Red wines from Valtiendas (Tinto de Valtiendas).
Learning Spanish in Segovia means submerging into not only the language, but also into the castilian culture. Visitors from all around the world come to Segovia, declared by the UNESCO World Heritage Site, attracted by its famous Light, beauty and history.
In this section you will find the newest information on the courses offered from the Empresa Municipal de Turismo de Segovia, such as the most useful data for students, Pictures or videos of the latest courses that took place in Segovia.
Inside this space you will find the information about all the activities specifically designed by the EMT for families with small children: dynamic guided visits, games, useful information, pictures, drawing contests, etc.
ACCESSIBLE SEGOVIA
The microsite of Accessible Segovia is focused to provide information to people with any kind of physical or intellectual handicap. You will find in it complete information about adapted spaces and establishments, parking, guided visits, activities and events related with accessibility in Segovia.
RESERVATION CENTER OF SEGOVIA
Tourist Reception Center of Segovia
Azoguejo, 1-40001 Segovia
Tel: (+34) 921 46 67 21
Fax: (+34) 921 46 67 24
www.reservasdesegovia.com
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The Central de Reservas (Reservation Centre) is an initiative started by the Empresa Municipal de Turismo created with the purpose of providing the touristic offer of the city with a powerful and homogeneous marketing mechanism.
Through the website the visitor will be able to contract all kind of reservations and ask all kind of questions in a simple way, due to its easy access inside the products’ menu: useful information, accommodations, restaurants, adventure tourism, services (guided visits, electric bicycles, museums and monuments combined tickets, audio guides, etc), travel packages, tourist information, special offers, links, and all the information on cultural offerings.
SEGOVIA CONVENTION BUREAU
C/ Juderia Vieja, 12. 40.001 - Segovia
Tel.: (+34) 921 46 05 90
Fax: (+34) 921 46 67 08
The SGCB is a department inside the Empresa Municipal de Turismo that is specialized on promoting, favouring and gaining business tourism. It was created as an answer to the needs of professional congress organizers, and everyone interested in Segovia as a venue to their congresses, offering diverse services attending to the interests of each organizer.
The SGCB offers punctual information on infrastructures and services, and permanent support all over the process of organization and development.
SEGOVIA FILM OFFICE
C/ Judería Vieja, 12. 40.001- Segovia
Tel.: (+34) 921 46 03 54
Fax: (+34) 921 46 67 08
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“Segovia is a city which beauty makes it seem more appropriate for cinematographic fiction than for the real world”
A welcoming city, with an ancient history woven by different cultures, daughter to an old Aqueduct made of stone and water, in which channel life has been reflected since the world was young, and still waiting to a script to make the great show of cinema come back to its streets, squares, houses… and answer, always with a smile, to the love that the cinema declared to the city a long time ago…
LINGUISTIC TOURISM
SPANISH LANGUAGE COURSES
Concejalía de Turismo
C/Judería Vieja 12
40001. Segovia. España
Learning Spanish in Segovia means not only to submerge into the language, but also in the castilian culture. Travellers coming from all over the world come to Segovia, declared World Heritage Site by the UNESCO, attracted by the fame of its beauty, light and history.
There are several courses offered by the EMT including complementary activities such as guided visits through the city and its surroundings, workshops, cultural and sports activities, official certificate or diploma, library, computer room, etc. as well as full board accommodation in families’ homes.
1· Spanish courses for preparing the DELE.
2· Spanish courses for teachers of Spanish language.
3· Spanish courses combined with adventure tourism.
4· Spanish courses for tourism professionals.
5· Intensive Spanish Courses.
6· Spanish course ‘Castles and Monasteries – travelling to the Middle Ages’
The whole process can be formalized online, through:
www.turismodesegovia.com o www.reservasdesegovia.com
