Guided Tours Ávila 2 prices and offers 2025

If you want to spend your weekend in a city with a rich cultural, historical and gastronomical heritage, Ávila is the place for you. This city offers the possibility of climbing the mighty wall that surrounds the city, a historic centre declared World Heritage by UNESCO, a multitude of palaces, convents and temples, and to top it all off, you can enjoy a delicious Avila T-bone steak!

As there are many monuments in this city, we recommend taking a guided tour. It is undoubtedly the best option for discovering every corner of the city accompanied by a local guide who will explain the city's most hidden curiosities and secrets.

It is best to leave behind the old idea that guided tours are a 'boring way' to get to know a new city. Luckily for everyone, the experts in this type of guided tour have been renewing themselves and their methods of explaining. They are well equipped to reach all audiences, of any kind, in an entertaining and even fun way. That's why we want to make it easier for you. Read on to see the detailed list of the most popular guided tours in the city of Ávila so that you can choose the one that best suits you and your companions' preferences.

What to do in Ávila?

- If you plan to visit Ávila for the first time, we recommend that you take a guided tour of the historic centre of the city. With this type of tour, you can visit some of the city's most emblematic monuments. The Ávila city walls, considered one of the best-preserved walled enclosures in Europe, the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, considered the first Gothic cathedral in Spain, the Basilica of San Vicente, the Plaza del Mercado Chico market square and the four-post viewpoint, considered the most famous in the province. These guided tours of Ávila usually last approximately 2 hours, during which time you will explore the city's most beautiful streets.

- If you come with children, we recommend a dramatised guided tour. It is a different and unique way to get to know the most famous monuments of Ávila entertainingly. We will meet actors who will represent the most famous characters of the city, through which, the youngest members of the family will be able to soak up the history and culture of the city in the simplest possible way.

- If you spend a night in this city, we recommend you to take a guided tour of Avila by night. During the day, this city has a great charm, but when night falls, the beauty of the city doubles. We will be able to see the walls, the cathedral or the market square illuminated beautifully, highlighting all those details that we do not appreciate during the day, and the local guide who will accompany us will tell us the legends and the darkest secrets of the city. All this, together with the company of the moon, makes the perfect ingredients to fall in love with Avila.

- If you want to enter the ship of mystery, you have to take this guided tour through the mysteries and legends of Ávila. This guided tour usually takes place at night, as it creates the perfect atmosphere to let yourself get carried away by these positive vibes. This type of route usually takes place around the walls of Avila, the cathedral or around locations in the city where different films have been filmed. You will discover all the mysteries surrounding the city's most emblematic figures, such as San Juan de la Cruz and Santa Teresa de Ávila.

- If you are a nature lover, we recommend you take a guided tour of the botanical trail of El Barraco, located about 30 km from the city centre. So if you come to Avila for several days, it is a perfect way to enjoy one of the most beautiful natural environments in the whole province.

In this activity, you will be with an expert botanical guide who will teach you to differentiate the different botanical species present in the central system. In addition, you will visit beautiful places such as the Iruelas Valley nature reserve, Burguillo reservoir, and the protected areas for birds, where you will observe endangered species. We can't think of a better way to reconnect with nature than this guided route.

We hope we have helped you clarify your ideas to select the guided tour that best suits you and your companions. All you have to do is book the one you like the most and come to Ávila on the day of your choice. Enjoy an incredible cultural and architectural heritage, and of course, finish the day eating a delicious Avila T-bone steak!