A reservation now stands between the free Monday and the door at Casa de Pilatos. The visit is still free and still on Mondays, but it has to be booked online, and places open a month ahead.
The main floor of Casa de Pilatos costs €12 and the upper floor costs a separate €6, which puts the whole palace at €18.
How much are Casa de Pilatos tickets?
€12.00 for the main floor and €6.00 more for the upper floor, with no discounted combined ticket, so the complete palace comes to €18.00. It opens every day from 9am to 6pm. Monday is free, but the visit must be reserved online, with places released a month ahead.
Two tickets, and no combined price
The palace is sold as two products rather than one, according to the Fundación Casa Ducal de Medinaceli. Buying both costs €18, and there is no reduction for taking them together.
- Main floor, €12. Courtyards, ground-level halls and the garden, with a guide service or audio guide included.
- Upper floor, €6. Original furniture and the painting collection, in a separate ticket.
- Both floors, €18. The complete route, at the sum of the two with no grouped discount.
- School group, €8. A per-person rate booked through the palace directly.
- Child up to 11, free. Accompanied by an adult.
Where that lands against the rest of the city is worth knowing before buying. At €12 the main floor sits below the €13.00 online rate of Seville Cathedral and the Giralda; at €18 the complete palace clears the €15.50 general ticket of the Real Alcázar by €2.50 and becomes the most expensive single admission of the three.
The free Monday now has to be reserved
The Fundación keeps the free visit on Mondays and has added one condition that changes how the day is planned. The ticket has to be reserved online in advance, and places are released a month before the date. Arriving at Plaza de Pilatos and joining a queue is no longer how it works.
That reservation window is the practical part. A month of lead time means the free Monday is a decision taken while booking flights, not one taken on the morning itself, and it competes with every other visitor doing the same. The €12 main-floor ticket remains available at any time for anyone who misses the release.
The free slot exists because the law requires it
Andalusian heritage law obliges whoever owns a property listed as a Bien de Interés Cultural to allow free public visits on at least four days a month, at days and times announced in advance. Those times must be published both at the building itself and on the heritage portal, according to the Junta de Andalucía.
That is the origin of the Monday, and it explains a pattern that otherwise looks arbitrary. Privately owned monuments across Andalucía carry free slots they never advertise as offers, because the slot is a legal minimum rather than a promotion. It also explains the shape it takes: a fixed day with counted places, instead of a discount spread across the week.
The same logic sits underneath other free access in the city, though the mechanism differs. The regional museums exempt by nationality accreditation rather than by day, as set out in the guide to Seville’s free museums, and the Real Alcázar de Sevilla exempts by birth or residence in the municipality, a criterion detailed in the guide to who enters the Alcázar free.
A palace that is still a residence
Casa de Pilatos belongs to the Casa Ducal de Medinaceli, and the foundation that carries the family name runs it alongside other monuments. That ownership is the reason the upper floor is a separate ticket rather than a continuation of the route.
The €12 covers the part built to be seen: the central courtyard with its arcades, the tiled dados, the ground-level halls and the garden. The €6 covers rooms still furnished as living space, with original furniture and paintings in position. A visitor drawn by Mudéjar architecture has bought everything they came for at €12; a visitor drawn by domestic interiors has not.
It opens on the day half the city closes
Casa de Pilatos opens every day of the week from 9am to 6pm. Nine hours a day with no weekly closing is unusual in Seville, and it matters most on the one day that removes several alternatives at once.
Monday is when the regional museums close and when the Itálica archaeological site closes, and it is also the day of the free visit at Casa de Pilatos. On a Monday in Seville the surviving options narrow to the Cathedral, the Real Alcázar and this house, and only the last of the three drops to €0.00 that day.
For a visitor counting admissions across a stay, that single move is worth €12 against the three-day Seville budget, where entrance fees are the line that runs away fastest. The heat makes the same choice twice as useful in summer, since the courtyards and the garden are shaded and the July mean daily maximum reaches 36.0°C.
The nine-hour window is generous by the standards of what else is open. Itálica runs from 9am to 3pm on Sundays and holidays, six hours rather than nine, and the regional museums shut at 3pm through their summer window. Casa de Pilatos holds the same 9am to 6pm span all year and on every day of the week, which makes it the one fixed point to plan the rest of a day around rather than the piece that has to be squeezed in.
A compulsory reservation for a ticket that costs nothing is not a quirk of Casa de Pilatos. It is the pattern behind both of the city’s free visits, compared against every other entrance in the guide to Seville monument tickets and which ones need booking.
Frequently asked questions about Casa de Pilatos tickets
How much are Casa de Pilatos tickets?
The main floor is €12 and the upper floor is a separate €6, which puts the complete palace at €18. There is no discounted combined ticket. Children up to 11 accompanied by an adult enter free, and school groups pay €8 per person.
Is Casa de Pilatos free on Mondays?
Yes, but the free visit now has to be reserved online in advance, with places released one month ahead. The Fundación Casa Ducal de Medinaceli announced the change, and turning up at Plaza de Pilatos without a reservation no longer works.
Why is Casa de Pilatos free at all?
Because Andalusian heritage law requires it. Any property listed as a Bien de Interés Cultural must allow free public visits on at least four days a month, at times announced in advance and published both at the building and on the Junta de Andalucía portal.
What does the upper floor of Casa de Pilatos add?
The original furniture and the painting collection, in rooms that the Casa Ducal de Medinaceli still holds as a residence. The €12 main-floor ticket covers the courtyards, the tiled halls and the garden, which is the architecture most visitors come for.
Does Casa de Pilatos close on any day of the week?
No. It opens every day of the week from 9am to 6pm, which is nine hours daily with no weekly closing day. That sets it apart from the regional museums in Seville and from the Itálica archaeological site, all of which close on Mondays.
Is an audio guide included in the Casa de Pilatos ticket?
Yes. The individual ticket includes a guide service or an audio guide, either a physical device or a downloadable one, in Spanish, French, English, Portuguese, German, Japanese and Italian. Seven languages, at no supplement over the €12 main-floor price.
Book the Monday a month out, or budget €12. The number that catches people is the €18 for both floors.