Cádiz Cathedral Tickets: 2026 Prices, Opening Hours & Tower Climb

Do not throw away your paper ticket once you pass the main turnstile. It has to be shown at three separate doors around Plaza de la Catedral and El Pópulo:

• 1. The New Cathedral (Catedral Nueva): Built over 116 years (1722–1838), the three-nave interior transitions from Vicente Acero's dynamic Guadix-and-Granada-inspired Baroque ground plan to Torcuato Cayón, Miguel Olivares, Torcuato Benjumeda and Juan Daura's cool Neoclassical upper levels. Look for the choir stalls transferred from the Carthusian monastery of Santa María de las Cuevas in Seville.
• 2. The Subterranean Crypt (La Cripta): Reached by stairs inside the cathedral beneath the high altar. Designed by Vicente Acero between 1722 and 1730 in brick and local marine piedra ostionera, its flat circular vault sits below sea level and carries a distinctive acoustic echo. Here lie the tombs of Cádiz composer Manuel de Falla and writer José María Pemán, alongside bishops and the sculptural ensemble by Alejandro de Saavedra.
• 3. The Torre del Reloj (Clock Tower Viewpoint): Entered from a separate street door on the exterior facade (to your right as you exit the cathedral). Completed in 1845, the eastern bell tower rises 54 metres from the street and 58 metres above sea level, making it the highest architectural viewpoint in the city.
• 4. The Casa de la Contaduría (Museo Catedralicio): A two-minute walk behind the cathedral apse in Plaza Fray Félix, right next to the medieval Iglesia de Santa Cruz (Old Cathedral) and the Roman Theatre.

When you finish exploring the nave and the crypt, walk back out onto Plaza de la Catedral and look immediately to your right at the base of the eastern clock tower (Torre de Levante or Torre del Reloj). Show your cathedral ticket at the street-level booth to start the Cádiz Cathedral tower climb.

If you have climbed tight Gothic spiral staircases in northern Europe, the ascent here is a pleasant surprise. Almost the entire climb up the 54-metre tower uses a wide, gently graded stone ramp winding around the inner core, with a short staircase only for the final stage into the circular belfry. From the arched openings at the top, you look straight across the glazed yellow tiles of Juan Daura's dome, down into the excavated seats of the Roman Theatre on the Campo del Sur, and across the rooftops to Torre Tavira. Keep an eye on your watch: the overhead bells chime every quarter-hour.

Many visitors walk away from Plaza de la Catedral without realising their €10 ticket also opens the Casa de la Contaduría in Plaza Fray Félix. Walk along the cobbled flank of the cathedral into the medieval quarter of El Pópulo, where the museum occupies rooms around the 1500 Mudéjar patio built over the Roman theatre cavea beside the Iglesia de Santa Cruz. Inside the Sala de las Custodias and adjoining rooms are monumental 16th-to-19th-century goldsmith works including the 18th-century Custodia del Millón by Vicente Gómez de Ceballos, liturgical vestments such as the 16th-century Terno de San Pedro, the Cruz de Tablas recalling the 1596 assault, and chryselephantine sculptures of Saints Servando and Germán made in the Philippines. Because it opens Tuesday to Saturday from 10:00 to 16:30 only, always visit it before late afternoon.

1. Step 1, Nave & Choir (35 mins): Buy your ticket at the main entrance on Plaza de la Catedral and tour the main chapels and choir stalls.
2. Step 2, The Crypt (15 mins): Descend the stairs beneath the main altar to see Vicente Acero's circular oysterstone vault and the tombs of Manuel de Falla and José María Pemán before tour groups crowd the central rotunda.
3. Step 3, Casa de la Contaduría (25 mins): If you are visiting Tuesday to Saturday before 16:00, walk two minutes up to Plaza Fray Félix while the treasury museum is still open.
4. Step 4, Torre del Reloj Climb (25 mins): Return to the front facade (or do the climb right after the crypt if visiting after 16:30) and ascend the clock-tower ramp for late-afternoon Atlantic light over the dome and the Campo del Sur.