Torres De Serranos And Torres De Quart: Free Sundays And What The Ticket Buys

The Torres de Serranos and the Torres de Quart are the two surviving medieval gate towers of Valencia's walled old city, and both climbs follow one municipal ticket rule: free on Sundays and public holidays between 10:00 and 14:00, EUR 2 otherwise (EUR 1 reduced), and free with the Valencia Tourist Card. Looking at either gate from the street costs nothing at any time, because the gate and the climb are two separate facts.

The Torres de Serranos stand at the top of the Ciutat Vella, where the old road out of the city pointed toward the Serrania hills, and they give the tower its name. The Torres de Quart sit further west, guarding the road that once ran toward Quart de Poblet. Between them they are what remains above ground of the wall that closed the medieval city, a wall whose Roman, Islamic and Christian traces are the subject of the Walls of Valencia walk, a free tour that meets at Torres de Serrans and runs 2 hours 30 minutes in English and Spanish, rated 4.9 out of 5 across 16 GuruWalk reviews. That walk is listed on this site but not carded in this guide.

Both towers are municipal monuments, run by the Ajuntament de Valencia, and that single fact explains almost everything about their tickets. The city's own information pages for the two gates, on Torres de Serranos and Torres de Quart, carry the same schedule and the same price lines, and this guide follows them. What the gates share with the Lonja de la Seda, L'Almoina and the Museu Faller is the Sunday and holiday rule, covered in detail below. What they do not share with anything is the weather clause: the towers are the only monuments on the municipal list whose climb depends on the sky.

How Much Does It Cost To Climb The Torres De Serranos And Torres De Quart?

The climb costs EUR 2 for a general ticket and EUR 1 reduced, from Monday to Saturday between 10:00 and 19:00. On Sundays and public holidays the climb is free, with the free window running 10:00 to 14:00 on that day. A Valencia Tourist Card, a paid product from EUR 17, covers the climb on any day the towers are open. No other discount, age rule or free category is published for these two climbs.

That is the whole price structure, and it is worth being blunt about it because the two towers are so often described as simply "free". They are not. The free claim is true only under the Sunday and holiday condition, and that condition has real bite: a visitor who arrives on a Tuesday pays EUR 2, and a visitor who arrives on a public holiday that falls on a weekday pays nothing. Valencia's holiday calendar puts at least one such weekday holiday in almost every season, and 9 October 2026 is a Friday, which makes it a free-climb day that is not a weekend.

The Valencia Tourist Card is the one route to a free climb on a paid day, and it is a paid product, from EUR 17, so it only makes sense alongside the rest of a sightseeing plan. The 24, 48 and 72 hour cards do not include the Cathedral or IVAM, a limitation worth knowing before any arithmetic is attempted. The Cathedral's cultural visit is EUR 12 on its own ticket, and its Miguelete bell tower is a further EUR 3 that no card covers, so the towers' EUR 2 is among the smallest monument tickets in the city.

The street-level view is the genuinely free part, and it is not a consolation prize. Both gates are large enough that their exteriors, the stonework and the arches, read clearly from the pavement, and the Plaça dels Furs side of the Serranos gate gives the classic upward view of the twin towers. For a visitor planning the rest of the old city, the free walking tours listed on Free Things To Do In Valencia cover this ground without a ticket, and three of them suit the towers especially well.

All are GuruWalk listings run by independent local guides, and each is free, pay what you want: a visitor reserves a spot and tips the guide what the walk was worth at the end. The sections below say where each walk's ground sits against the two gates, so the cards can be matched to the part of the old city a visit covers.

When Are The Towers Free? The Sunday And Public Holiday Rule

The towers are free on Sundays and on public holidays, between 10:00 and 14:00 on those days only. On every other day the EUR 2 ticket applies, EUR 1 reduced. A holiday that falls on a weekday triggers the same free window, so 9 October 2026, a Friday, is a free-climb day. This is the municipal regime, shared with the Lonja de la Seda, L'Almoina and the Museu Faller.

It is not the rule the churches or the state museums follow, and the distinction matters. The free window is four hours long, from 10:00 to 14:00, and it is the same window at both towers. A Sunday visitor who wants both climbs in one free day has the same four hours for each, which is comfortable but not endless. The rule is the Ajuntament's, and it does not leak into other regimes: the Cathedral runs its own EUR 12 cultural visit with worship windows that are a separate matter, the Museu Nacional de Ceramica is a state museum free Saturday from 16:00 and all Sunday, and IVAM is a regional museum free all day Sunday and Wednesday 16:00 to 19:00. Mixing them up is the single most common planning mistake in Valencia, and the Sunday landscape across all the museums is laid out in Which Valencia Museums Are Free On Sundays.

The 9 d'Octubre holiday deserves its own line because it is the clearest example of the rule working on a weekday. The 2026 programme, published by the city, runs the Procesion Civica from Plaza del Ayuntamiento at 12:00, a mascleta about 14:00, the Bajada de Gloria at 15:45 and the Entrada de Moros y Cristianos at 17:00, all in the street with no ticket stated. On that Friday the municipal sites, both towers included, run holiday hours, the Cathedral's cultural visit is closed, and CaixaForum is free. A visitor in Valencia on that specific date gets a free climb and a free civic festival in the same day.

The towers also sit at the edge of the old town's commercial streets, and a free-window visit pairs naturally with the Ciutat Vella walks. The Silk Road in Valencia tour, rated 4 out of 5 across 72 GuruWalk reviews, meets at Mercado Central and runs 1 hour 30 minutes in English and Spanish, tracing the silk trade that made the quarter rich; the route passes monuments and museums whose entries the guest pays out of pocket, with no figure stated for those tickets here because none is published in the record. It is a GuruWalk listing run by an independent local guide, free to reserve with a tip at the end.

What Does The Ticket Buy Inside The Towers?

The ticket buys the climb: the walk up through the gate's interior, the wall-walk level and the open upper platform of the tower. It does not buy a museum in any meaningful sense, and neither tower houses a collection. The climb closes in rain, fog or strong wind, and it closes without daylight, so the ticket is weather-dependent in a way no other municipal monument in Valencia is.

That weather clause is the part of the record visitors most often miss. The Lonja de la Seda does not close for rain, and neither do the museums, but an open platform high on a stone gate does, and the municipal record states the closure plainly: rain, fog, strong wind, or the absence of daylight end the climbing day. A visitor holding a Sunday plan should hold a wet-weather backup too, and the rain options that never close, the Mercado Central among them, are gathered in What To Do In Valencia When It Rains.

What the platform gives back is the old city laid out below: the Ciutat Vella roofscape, the Cathedral's Miguelete, and the line of the old wall's course where the modern city has swallowed it. The official pages for these towers cover the ticket, the hours and the weather rule, and say nothing about a view inventory. What is certain is the geometry: two gates, two platforms, and a short flat walk between the towers through the old quarter, past the Lonja de la Seda.

The Lonja is the natural third stop on any towers day, and it runs on the same municipal Sunday rule: free on Sundays and public holidays 10:00 to 14:00, EUR 2 (EUR 1 reduced) otherwise, Monday to Saturday 10:00 to 19:00, and free with the Tourist Card. Its Gothic trading hall is the city's UNESCO-listed monument, and its spiral stair by Pere Compte opens only on special occasions. One walk starts right there: the Free Monumental Tour of Valencia, a freetour.com listing run by guide Paraguas Rojos, in English and Spanish, 1 hour 45 minutes, rated 9.4 out of 10 across 280 freetour.com reviews, meeting at the Lonja de la Seda itself.

The pairing is hard to beat on a Sunday: free tower climb in the morning, the Lonja's free window in the same four hours, and a free tour of the monumental quarter in the afternoon. The La Lonja De La Seda guide carries that monument's full rule set, including the ticketed weekday entry and the Tourist Card coverage, so it is not repeated here beyond the one summary sentence above.

How Do The Torres De Quart Compare With The Torres De Serranos?

The Torres de Quart are the smaller, quieter pair, further from the main old-town circuit, and they run the identical ticket, the identical Sunday and holiday free window and the identical weather closure. The Torres de Serranos are the larger, better-known gate, the meeting point for several free walking tours, and the one most visitors see first. Choosing between them is mostly a choice of itinerary, not of quality, because the municipal rule does not differentiate.

The practical difference is the walking-tour geography. The Serranos gate is a meeting landmark for a string of free tours on this site's roster, which makes it the natural anchor for a first visit: arrive early, look at the gate, climb if the sky allows, and let a walk take the rest of the old town from there. The Quart gate has no walk on the roster meeting at it, so it suits a visitor threading it into a route toward the Ciutat Vella's western streets or arriving from the Turia Gardens side, where the old wall's course is easiest to imagine.

For visitors who want the wall itself rather than the gates alone, the honest answer is that most of it is gone, and the two towers are the standing proof of what existed. The Walls of Valencia walk, meeting at Torres de Serrans, is built around exactly those traces and remains, Roman, Islamic and Christian, and it is the roster's only walk whose subject is the fortification itself. It runs 2 hours 30 minutes in English and Spanish and is rated 4.9 out of 5 across 16 GuruWalk reviews, a small review pool stated plainly rather than dressed up as anything more.

Which Free Walking Tours Start At The Towers?

Several walks on this site's roster meet at Torres de Serrans or Pont de Serrans, all free, pay what you want, and three run in English: the Complete Express Free Tour (4.97 out of 5 across 860 GuruWalk reviews), the Time Capsule History Tour (4.83 out of 5 across 442 GuruWalk reviews) and Discover Valencia with Rapunzel (4.94 out of 5 across 201 GuruWalk reviews). Meeting at a monument is not entering it.

None of these walks includes the climb, and that matters. A free tour that meets at the towers uses them as a landmark, a backdrop and a first history lesson, and the walk's record says nothing about entering any monument. The climb is the visitor's own ticket, on the visitor's own schedule, and the Sunday free window is the one part of the day the walks cannot arrange for you.

Not every old-town walk starts at the gates, and one of the roster's most-reviewed English walks starts deeper in. Free Tour Valencia Essentials meets at Plaça de la Mare de Déu, the square behind the Cathedral, and runs 2 hours 30 minutes in English and Spanish, rated 4.73 out of 5 across 5,030 GuruWalk reviews, the largest review pool of any English-capable walk on this site. It is a GuruWalk listing run by an independent local guide, and it suits a visitor who has already climbed the towers and wants the squares and the stories between them.

The wider old town, its squares and its side streets, has its own Valencia Old Town guide on this site, which carries the full neighbourhood picture beyond the gates. Between the two, a visitor can build a full free day: the towers in the Sunday window, a walk from the gate, and the quarter's squares in the afternoon.

How To Plan A Towers Visit Around Valencia's Holiday Calendar

Plan the climb around a Sunday or a public holiday and it costs nothing; plan it around the festival calendar and the free day comes with a festival attached. The fixed anchors are 9 October, which in 2026 falls on a Friday, and the Fallas window of mid-March, when the street monuments are free to see from the pavement. The towers' own hours never change for the festivals.

The holiday route is the one this guide would point a first-time visitor toward, because the free climb and the free street programme stack. On 9 October 2026 the civic procession leaves Plaza del Ayuntamiento at 12:00, the mascleta sounds about 14:00, and the Moros y Cristianos entrada follows at 17:00, all open to the street. The towers run holiday hours that day, which means the free 10:00 to 14:00 window, and the Cathedral's cultural visit is closed, so the day belongs to the outdoors.

Fallas deserves a careful sentence because it is the city's biggest free spectacle and it is often mis-stated. The festival is free in the street: the monuments stand in the neighbourhoods and the mascleta sounds daily at 14:00 sharp at Plaza del Ayuntamiento from 1 March, with the Cremà on the night of 19 March. Entering the Special Section monument enclosures and the Ninot Exhibition is ticketed, with no amounts published in the record. The full pattern, and nothing beyond it, is in the Las Fallas Valencia guide.

The one caution for autumn and winter planning is the weather clause, restated here only as a pointer: the climb closes in rain, fog or strong wind and without daylight, so a festival day with a clear morning is worth taking early. The Ayuntamiento's own page for the towers states no last-entry rule, and none is invented here.

Common Questions About The Torres De Serranos And Torres De Quart