The Alhambra deserves to be fully experienced

Alhambra private tour guide. Complete your experience if you already have tickets

Buy your own official alhambratickets and book your private guided tour of the Alhambra with Cicerone

Alhambra private tour guide English with scheduled entry; around 2.5–3 hours, scenic stops, personalized pace, and stories.

If you have already bought your official alhambratickets, you can still turn your visit into a much richer experience. With a private English-speaking guide, you will understand what you are seeing, follow the best route for your entry time, and avoid feeling lost among the crowds.

How to Book with Us?

Write to us at hellocicerone@gmail.com

Please mention the title of this tour, the number of participants in your group, and your preferred date to take the tour with us.  Please, also inform us of the time of your tickets for the Alhambra and the Generalife. We will get back to you as soon as possible with a personalized quote.

By booking via email, we confirm availability before any payment, can adjust schedules and details to your preferences, and send you all the information in writing so you can feel confident about what you are booking.

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Perfect if…

• You have managed to buy Alhambra tickets by yourself but don’t want to miss the stories behind the palaces and gardens.
• You prefer to walk at your own pace, stopping for photos and questions whenever you like.
• You want someone local to take care of timings and directions so you don’t have to worry about logistics.

Discover the wonders hidden in the Alhambra at your own pace

Our guides bring the monument into life but always thinking of you. In this way, the tour becomes the one in a lifetime guided tour that you were searching for. You will be able to even feel why the Alhambra is the best representation of the artistic, cultural and scientific development of Al-Andalus.

With a personalised itinerary, specially adapted to your interests, our guide will help you to discover all the fantastic spots hidden around the Alhambra, its magical stories as well as the history of the monument and the city of Granada.

Besides, wandering around the Generalife gardens, with its aromatic plants, flowers and fountains will be a unique experience for your senses.

Our guides choose the best spots with wonderful views and move around the complex skipping lines and knowing where to stop so that can feel alone with your private guide in the Alhambra. Forget about feeling lost amid crowds.

What is included on the guided tour?

This depends on whether the tickets include the Nasrid Palaces or not.
With the general ticket, we will guide you through: Palace of Carlos V, Nasrid Palaces: Palace of Mexuar Golden Room and Patio, Court of the Myrtles, Hall of Ambassadors, Court of the Lions, Carlos V rooms, Generalife Gardens and Palace.

If you would like to know more about the monument and what your guide will be sharing with you, please follow this link.

Why hire an Alhambra private tour guide?

  • The Alhambra is such a special and unique place that it deserves to be experienced fully, with no half measures. Learn the history of the Alhambra through the architecture and symbols to be seeing in the fortress and gardens.
  • Our trained guides are professionals who are besotted with the Alhambra: they’re eager to show you all the secrets the monument harbor.
  • Up to 30 participants, we adapt to your group length.
  • Best spots for great pictures and memories.

Practical information

Meeting Point

Main entrance pavilion. Esplanade. "Punto de encuentro/meeting point" signpost.

Duration

Around 2,5- 3 hours

Languages available

English, Spanish, French and German.

What is included

Guided tour.

Audio devices service is included, if the size of the group requires it.

Tickets not included.

Cancellation policy

Customer will have a total refund if cancellation is requested 48 hours before the tour or earlier.
No refund will be applicable if customer requests cancellation later or if there is a no show.
Cancellations request must be made by sending an email to hellocicerone@gmail.com

From 240€

Price varies by group size

Special Requests

If you have any questions or special requests, please do not hesitate to contact us at hellocicerone@gmail.com or call us at +34-607691676 / +34-958561810

We are looking forward to welcoming you in Granada!

FAQs

Will our private guide accompany us inside the Nasrid Palaces, Generalife and Alcazaba, or only explain from outside?

What do I need to send you before the tour?

Does the guide service include Alhambra tickets?

What happens if our Nasrid Palaces entry time is very early or very late — can you adapt the guided route to that schedule?

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