Guided Visit to Xàtiva Castle with Love Xàtiva Tours

Xàtiva Castle can be explored on your own with an audio guide, but it is big and its stones tell a lot: two castles, a parade ground between them and centuries of sieges. With Love Xàtiva Tours you see it in an hour and a quarter with a guide who puts in order what is in front of you.

What the guide covers

The route goes through the parade ground, the Socorro gate, the chapels of Sant Jordi and Santa María, the area of the cannons and the round tower, the Arab gardens and the prison. It is about 660 metres each way and as much back inside the complex, between 252 and 300 metres above sea level, with stretches of up to 33% gradient. The company considers it partly suitable for people with reduced mobility; pushchairs and wheelchairs have limited passage on much of the route.

Days, price and what you pay separately

It runs on Saturdays at 10:45 in Spanish, and on Fridays there is an English session; other times and private groups, to be confirmed. It costs €10 for adults and €6 for ages 8 to 15, VAT included. It runs with a minimum of eight registered: you sign up by WhatsApp on 601 36 75 15 and booking and payment open when the group is complete.

The castle entry is not included. The tourist office publishes it at €6 with the municipal museums, and Love Xàtiva Tours indicates a discounted price if you buy it together with its tour: ask when you book. The ride up is not included either: on foot along the Castell road, on the shuttle on Sundays and public holidays from October to May or on the summer tourist train. The meeting point is the castle reception, ten minutes before.

How to fit it into the day

The castle opens at 10:00, so at 10:45 it is still cool. The visit ends around midday: you have time to go down to the old town and visit the Fine Arts Museum, open until 14:30, before lunch. The Collegiate Church closes on Saturdays at 13:00; if you want to see it, leave it for Sunday. If it rains, the company allows you to postpone the outing to another week.