Golfines de Abajo Palace, with a guide

Where the Catholic Monarchs stayed

Almost all the palaces of the monumental city are seen from outside. This one is seen inside, and furnished. The Golfines de Abajo palace, on Plaza de los Golfines, between the Santa María co-cathedral and Plaza de San Jorge, was the home of one of the most powerful lineages of Cáceres and the residence the Catholic Monarchs chose when they passed through the city. Since September 2015 it has been a museum and holds the legacy of Tatiana Pérez de Guzmán el Bueno.

It is not a museum of display cases: you walk through the rooms of a noble home with its furniture and works of art, from the 16th to the 20th centuries, arranged as in a lived-in house.

What you see in the hour's visit

The visit goes with a guide and in a small group, and lasts about an hour. It passes through the Armoury, built in the first half of the 16th century, with the family's heraldry and a portrait gallery; through the collection rooms; and through the upper gallery, where an original oratory remains with an 18th-century tile altar frontal. The guide also tells of the house's archive, with more than 9,000 documents and volumes, the oldest from the 14th century, among them account books of Isabella the Catholic. It is being digitised and part of it can be consulted online.

Hours: mind Sunday and summer

You can only enter with a guided visit, at a fixed time. From October to April they leave Tuesday to Saturday at 10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 13:00, 16:30, 17:30 and 18:30; from May to September, the afternoon ones move to 17:00, 18:00 and 19:00, and from 1 July to 15 September the 17:00 one is dropped. On Sunday there are only morning visits, from 10:00 to 13:00.

It is closed on non-holiday Mondays, Sunday afternoons, 24, 25 and 31 December, 1 and 6 January, 23 April (Saint George), 30 May (Saint Ferdinand) and during WOMAD and the Three Cultures Medieval Market. If you go on those dates, check first.

Price and tickets

General admission costs €3. Over-65s and groups of more than 15 pay €2; university students and higher-vocational students under 26 and people with disabilities pay €1, and under-12s go in free. Reductions are verified at the box office. Tickets are bought on its website or at the box office, which opens Tuesday to Saturday in the morning and afternoon, and on Sunday from 10:00 to 13:00.

With children

There is a family visit with riddles and challenges so that little ones go round the house playing. Ask the dates when you buy.