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Palacio de Liria: tickets, hours and how to visit
The Madrid home of the Dukes of Alba, with paintings by Goya, Titian and El Greco. Choose your ticket, check the hours and plan your visit.
In short
- The Palacio de Liria is open on Monday from 10:00 to 14:00 and from Tuesday to Sunday, and on public holidays, from 10:00 to 14:00 and from 16:00 to 19:00. The last entries are at 12:45 and at 18:00.
- You can choose an entry ticket with an audio guide, or a guided tour in Spanish.
- Your ticket is personal, with a QR code. Photos are not allowed inside: you can take them only in the garden, after the visit.
- Every Monday that is not a public holiday there is a free session at 10:00, with two tickets per person, booked online.
A palace that survived a fire
The palace was built between 1767 and 1785 for the Duke of Berwick and Liria, and the name comes from Liria, in Valencia, where the fourth duke was born. In November 1936, during the Civil War, a fire left only the façades, although most of the works had been saved.
The Duchess Cayetana rebuilt it between 1948 and 1956, on designs by Edwin Lutyens, and it reopened on 13 June 1956. It has been open to visitors since 19 September 2019.
Goya, Titian and a library of manuscripts
The collection includes a portrait gallery of the dukes and paintings by Titian, El Greco, Murillo, Zurbarán, Rembrandt and Rubens. One of them is Goya's Duchess Cayetana in a white dress. The library keeps manuscripts, among them the Alba Bible and letters of Columbus. In the back garden there is a cemetery for the family's pets.
Which ticket for the Palacio de Liria?
Want to go at your own pace? Take the entry ticket with the audio guide, in English, French, Portuguese or Spanish. Do you speak Spanish and like a story with music and voices? The guided tour is for you.