Alcázar of Córdoba Guided Night Tour

This guided night tour reveals the years that led to the Discovery of the New World as Navegantes by Naturaleza Encendida transforms the Alcázar into an immersive journey through ambition, exploration, and royal power.

Getting started

Meet your guide at the Alcázar before your scheduled evening tour. Once your group is assembled, enter the monument together and begin your 1-hour guided visit in English or Spanish. From the very first steps inside, the illuminated fortress sets the stage for an experience unlike a typical daytime visit.

What to expect

Alcázar of Córdoba

This isn't a traditional monument visit. It's a chronological journey through the events that unfolded within these walls during the 1480s, when the Alcázar served as the Catholic Monarchs' provisional court. As you move through the fortress and illuminated gardens, your guide reveals how the final years of the Reconquista, the captivity of Boabdil, the birth of Infanta Maria, and Christopher Columbus's time in Córdoba became threads in the story of the Discovery of the Americas.

Features:

• Step into the Catholic Monarchs' court: Explore the fortress where Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand planned the final campaigns of the Reconquista and laid the foundations for Spain's next great chapter.

• Follow Columbus before the voyage: Discover the lesser-known years when Columbus lived in Córdoba, sold maps to make ends meet, met Beatriz Enríquez de Arana, and sought royal support for his daring proposal.

• Walk through an ocean of light: Stroll through illuminated gardens where projections, music, water, and centuries-old greenery recreate the spirit of legendary voyages in a striking open-air setting.

• Experience history through art and technology: Instead of exhibits and display cases, the Alcázar itself becomes the storyteller, blending historical research with immersive visual effects to bring the past vividly to life.