Free Tour Alcalá Insólita (only for adults)
CompluTour Guided visits at Alcalá de Henares and Madrid, offers touristic visits in Spanish guided by official guides and historians.
Pickup
Plaza de los Santos Niños, corner with San Juan Street. Don't confuse us with the others! OUR UMBRELLA IS WHITE.
Description
GUIDED TOURS IN ALCALÁ DE HENARES NO. 1 ON GOOGLE AND TRIPADVISOR SINCE 2019
IMPORTANT: MINORS ARE NOT ALLOWED - EXPLICIT LANGUAGE AND THEME / Participation of groups of more than 6 people is not permitted on free tours, regardless of whether several reservations have been made from different emails. The fee for booking and participation of groups of 6 to 10 people on free tours is €9/person VAT included and €5/children under 7 years of age VAT included, to be paid before the tour begins via an electronic payment method. No additional amount will have to be paid either upon arrival at the meeting point or at the end of the tour. Contact us for more information.
If you already know Alcalá de Henares and you are almost an expert, we suggest that you take this tour to one of the lesser-known areas of the city, the Christian quarter. We will begin our route in the Plaza de los Santos Niños, the place where two of our protagonists, the children Justo and Pastor, were beheaded. Next, we will look up to discover the Roman inscriptions hidden in the Cathedral-Magistral, and then walk through the ancient Alcalá "red light district" revealing the lesser-known ins and outs of the old brothel.
The War of Independence in the Henares River region will also be one of the topics we will address, led by one of its most popular and beloved heroes in the Cervantine population: El Empecinado.
We will discover several convents full of history, curiosities and traditions that are still alive, while we follow the trail of duels, fights and murders that took place in dark alleys, cases of witchcraft, renowned inquisitorial trials and even the origin of the oldest profession in the world.
All this and much more awaits us on the Alcalá de Henares Insólita Free Tour.
What you will learn about the unusual Alcalá de Henares:
The intimate life of Ferdinand VII
The Empecinado and the War of Independence
Roman inscriptions of the Magistral Cathedral
The origins of prostitution
Former Hospital of Santa Maria la Rica
Archbishop's Prison
The Alcalá "red light district"
Convent of the Augustinian Nuns of Saint Mary Magdalene
The Inquisition in Alcalá and much more…
Important Information:
* MINORS ARE NOT ADMITTED
* Groups of more than 6 people are not allowed to participate in the free tour. Minimum group size to start the tour: 4.
*The tour is done entirely on foot and is fully accessible.
*No ticket or entrance fee is required, the monuments mentioned are visited externally.
*Reservations from travel agencies or wholesalers are not accepted.