Most visitors to Plaza de la Encarnación believe they are buying a ticket to a single site. They are standing on two, run by different organisations, priced eight times apart, and neither ticket admits to the other.
The Antiquarium costs €2 and occupies the basement of the same building as Las Setas de Sevilla, whose general experience starts at €16. Everything that follows comes from what each operator publishes.
How much does it cost to go up Las Setas in Seville?
From €16.00 for an individual ticket and from €48.00 for a family one, with the walkway open 9.30am to 1am and last entry at 12.15am. In the basement of the same building, the municipal Antiquarium costs €2.00, twenty-four times less for a Roman, Visigothic and Islamic site.
Two operators, one address
Las Setas de Sevilla is the commercial operation of the rooftop; the Antiquarium is a municipal archaeological site run by the ICAS, the city’s culture institute. They sit in the same structure on Plaza de la Encarnación and share nothing beyond the postcode.
That separation is what makes the free-entry rules easy to mix up. The residence-based exemption belongs to the Antiquarium below, not to the rooftop above, and applying one operator’s conditions to the other is how a visit goes wrong at the counter. Only the €2 site publishes exemptions at all; the €16 and €48 tiers carry none.
| Attraction | Operator | Price | Free entry |
|---|---|---|---|
| Las Setas, general experience | Setas de Sevilla | from €16 | Not published |
| Las Setas, combined experience | Setas de Sevilla | from €48 | Not published |
| Antiquarium | ICAS | €2 | Born or resident in Seville, under-16s, disabled plus companion |
What the €16 actually buys
The general experience starts at €16 according to Setas de Sevilla and covers three things: the 360-degree rooftop viewpoint, the multisensory film Feeling Sevilla and the Aurora light show. Estimated visit time runs from 60 to 90 minutes.
A second tier, the combined experience, starts at €48 and adds the Setas flamenco tablao show with preferred seating and a cocktail. Both are advertised as starting from those figures, which means the published number is a floor rather than a fixed price. The gap between the two tiers is €32, or twice the general admission again.
The basement is municipal and costs €2
The Antiquarium preserves Roman, Visigothic and Islamic remains uncovered during the works that produced the square as it stands. The ICAS sets admission at €2, with free entry for people born or resident in Seville who show a DNI, for under-16s and for visitors with a disability accompanied by one person.
That residence criterion matches the one the Real Alcázar applies, as set out in the guide to its free-entry rules: municipality rather than diocese or province. Both municipal sites in the city draw the same boundary.
For a visitor from outside, €2 puts the Antiquarium alongside the regional museums as the cheapest paid heritage in the centre, as covered in the guide to Seville’s free museums and their access routes.
Monday is the day the cheap half disappears
The rooftop runs from 9.30am to 1am with last entry at 12.15am. The Antiquarium opens Tuesday to Saturday from 10am to 8pm, with public access closing at 7.30pm, and on Sundays and public holidays from 10am to 2pm, with access closing at 1.30pm, according to the ICAS.
Two consequences follow. From 8pm onwards only the upper half operates, and on Mondays the basement does not open at all. Anyone planning both on the same day has to start underground and work upwards, because the reverse order runs into a closed desk. On a Sunday the window is narrower still, since the basement stops admitting at 1.30pm while the rooftop keeps going for another eleven and a half hours.
The same pattern of cheap municipal heritage repeats across the river. The Triana ceramics centre charges €2.10 and admits free on presentation of a general Real Alcázar ticket, with its sixteenth-century kilns standing on the ground floor.
Four things to check before buying
- Which desk. A Setas ticket does not open the Antiquarium and the reverse is also true.
- Which day. The Antiquarium shuts on Mondays; the rooftop does not.
- Which month. The Aurora show runs April to October only, at no change in price.
- Which figure. Both Setas tiers are advertised from €16 and from €48 rather than at them.
The light show has a season
Aurora, included in both Setas tiers, runs from April to October between 9.30pm and 1am. That is a seven-month window inside a venue that opens every day of the year, and outside it the ticket still covers the viewpoint and the film but not the third element the experience advertises. The show also starts three and a half hours before the last entry at 12.15am, so a late slot still catches it.
The price does not change with the season, so a ticket bought outside those seven months delivers two of the three components listed for the general experience. That distinction is set by the month rather than by the hour of arrival, and it applies to the €48 tier as much as to the €16 one.
The €2.00 Antiquarium sits near the bottom of the municipal museum block, a long way from the €16.00 rooftop in the same building. Where it falls against every other museum in the city is in the guide to what Seville’s museums cost.
Three names for parts of the same thing
Setas de Sevilla is the name of the tourist operation and the viewpoint. Metropol Parasol is the name of the architectural project that produced the structure. Antiquarium is the archaeological site in the basement, with its own operator and its own ticket desk.
The three are not interchangeable when searching for tickets. A Setas ticket does not open the Antiquarium, and an Antiquarium ticket does not reach the rooftop. The archaeological remains that give the basement its name were uncovered during the works that produced the square, which is why one structure ended up carrying two unrelated visits.
The €16.00 rooftop and the €2.00 basement are the two ends of the city’s price scale, with six other monuments in between. The ordered list, with the operator behind each one, is in the guide to what every Seville monument costs and which need booking.
Frequently asked questions about Las Setas tickets and the Antiquarium
Does the Las Setas ticket include the Antiquarium?
No. They are separate attractions with separate operators and separate tickets. The Setas experience starts at €16 and covers the rooftop walkway, the Feeling Sevilla film and the Aurora light show. The Antiquarium below costs €2 and is run by the city’s ICAS.
How much does the Antiquarium cost?
The ICAS sets admission at €2, with free entry for people born or resident in Seville who show a DNI, for under-16s, and for visitors with a disability plus one companion. It is among the cheapest paid heritage sites in the centre.
What are the opening hours at Las Setas?
The viewpoint runs from 9.30am to 1am with last entry at 12.15am, and the visit is estimated at 60 to 90 minutes. The Aurora light show operates from April to October, between 9.30pm and 1am.
Is the Antiquarium open on Mondays?
No. It opens Tuesday to Saturday from 10am to 8pm with public access closing at 7.30pm, and on Sundays and public holidays from 10am to 2pm with access closing at 1.30pm. It also shuts on 25 December and on 1 and 6 January.
Why is the Las Setas price listed as from €16?
Because the operator advertises both tiers as starting from a figure rather than at a fixed one. The €16 general experience and the €48 combined experience are floors, so the amount charged for a given slot can sit above the number published.
One structure, two ticket desks, twenty-four times between them. The cheaper desk shuts first and skips Mondays.