Sunset Visit with Legends and the Pérez y Toyuela Mansion

At six in the evening, when the day visitors' cars are already heading down towards Teruel, a guide from El Andador in a red T-shirt waits in Albarracín's Plaza Mayor. For two hours you walk around the old town with the city's legends, its viewpoints and the night-time lighting, and enter the Pérez y Toyuela mansion, a noble house that can only be visited with this company. It costs from €12 per person.

Inside the Pérez y Toyuela mansion

The mansion was the residence of one of Albarracín's most important families in the 17th and 18th centuries, and today works as a house museum. El Andador opens it on two of its visits: this sunset one and "Albarracín + Casona Plus", by day, for €9. No other visit in the town goes inside. Entry to other monuments, such as the cathedral or the castle, is not included: those are run by the Fundación Santa María.

The two hours, step by step

You meet at 18:00 in the Plaza Mayor, at Calle Portal de Molina, 4, where El Andador has its office. The group is small and the explanation is in Spanish. The walk goes up and down steep stone streets, with stops at viewpoints and at the corners where the legends are set, and in winter it ends after dark. The website rates it as suitable for all ages and admits dogs on a lead, as long as they do not disturb the group and you clean up after them.

When you book on its website you choose the day and the site calculates the price according to ages: adults and over-10s, children under 10 and little ones under 5. The visit does not run every day: the booking calendar marks the dates with a departure. Cancellation is free up to 24 hours before, by notifying the company, which refunds the amount.

Who enjoys it most

If you sleep in the old town, at the Posada del Adarve or Casa de Santiago, you leave the visit with your bed five minutes away. With teenagers it works better than a morning visit: there are stories, little light and empty streets. Anyone coming from Teruel to spend the afternoon goes back along the A-1512 at night, about 40 minutes of mountain road.

El Andador has been running visits since 1999. By day it has "Albarracín Monumental", 1 h 15 for €7.50, and a short version, "Esencial", for €6. In Teruel it repeats the idea with "Teruel Atardecer de Patrimonio y Leyendas", at 18:00 from the top of the Escalinata, for €11.

Cold at 1,100 metres

In November and December it gets dark before the visit ends and Albarracín, above 1,100 metres, freezes easily. Bring a coat, a hat and footwear that grips on polished stone. Afterwards, for dinner in the town, La Peculiar opens on Friday and Saturday evenings.