If You Are Going To Seville, You HAVE To Do This!

When booking tickets for the Seville Cathedral, I saw that they now offer a roof walk tour.    Buy those tickets as soon as possible, because it is special and amazing.

We love going on the rooftop of the Milan Duomo.  It's weird, because there is a lot more ornate carvings and aspects of interest on the Milan Duomo, and yet the rooftop tour of the Seville Cathedral brought us more joy.  (Don't get me wrong -- if you are going to Milan, you absolutely need to do the rooftop tour there too).

I think there is two reasons for this feeling of joy:

1.    They limit the number of people (20 is the maximum at this point) on each tour, and the number of tours each day.

2.  You spend time both inside and outside of the Cathedral, but the whole time is spent being up high.

Look, I'm not ungrateful or negative about going up to the top of the Duomo not just once, but twice (2022 and 2024).  It's amazing.  But being part of a small group, with an easily understood guide speaking English made it special.  Our guide was great (already forgot his name) and easy to understand.  Using the Whispers made him easy to hear, even when he was the other side of the cathedral.

It's only 20 Euros per person, and you have a full 90 minutes of climbing circular stone staircases, going out on balconies on the inside of the cathedral for views you've never imagined, and then outside to the roof.

It's amazing to be on the same level with high up stained glass windows inside and then flying buttresses outside.  Then you keep weaving in and out of the cathedral, seeing the inside from different perspectives, and the roof and views also from different perspectives (I know "Different Perspectives" sounds like an SNL skit of "Point/Counterpoint" but it's not.  This is a family publication, so I won't link to the original Dan Akroyd/Jane Curtain SNL skit on YouTube, but if you have a search engine, you can probably find it pretty easily yourself).

The views of Seville are great as well.  The only negative of the tour is that the sky was fully cloudy early on, and mostly cloudy later in the tour, so the photos didn't pop as much as they would with blue skies, but I'm skeptical I can really blame that on the Cathedral or the tour guide.

I have a slight case of acrophobia -- only when I'm at the edge of a steep drop.  Well, encouragingly, that wasn't a problem, because even Spanish lawyers will no longer let you get close to any kind of dangerous situation.

I could write more, but I won't -- there's plenty of pictures below here that should convince you to take this tour.