Alcazar of Segovia

UNESCO World Heritage Site (Old Town Of Segovia And Its Aqueduct, Inscribed 1985), A Royal Castle On The Confluence Rock, Largely Reconstructed After The 1862 Artillery College Fire · Segovia, Castile and Leon

A castle on the prow of a rock ridge where two rivers meet, which is why it is shaped like the bow of a ship and why every photograph of it is taken from the valley below. It began as a Moorish fort, became the favourite residence of the Castilian kings, and Isabella walked from here to the square in 1474 to be proclaimed queen - the moment that starts the union of Spain. It later served as a state prison and then a royal artillery college, and in 1862 that college burned the building down. What stands now is substantially a nineteenth-century reconstruction, including the slate spires that give it the silhouette people travel for, and that should be said plainly rather than glossed. The Throne Room ceilings, the armoury and the climb up the Torre de Juan II are the interior. It is the third thing in Segovia after the aqueduct and the cathedral, and it is the one children remember, which is not nothing in a town whose other two are a Roman aqueduct and a late Gothic cathedral.

Plaza Reina Victoria Eugenia, Segovia, Castile and Leon, 40003, Spain

NO OPENING TIME HERE WAS CHECKED. The structure: open daily with SEPARATE SUMMER AND WINTER SCHEDULES and last admission before closing. THE TORRE DE JUAN II IS A SEPARATE SUPPLEMENT and CLOSES IN HIGH WIND, which on an exposed rock ridge above a thousand metres is not rare. A FREE WINDOW runs on certain days for EU citizens. The valley viewpoint is public and open at all hours, and the building is floodlit after dark.

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