• Plaza Mayor de Trujillo - The official guided tour starts at Trujillo’s stunning Plaza Mayor, which is adorned with artisan-merchant portals and grand Renaissance palaces. These feature typical lodges and corner balconies, some still owned by the descendants of the noble families who lived there in the 15th and 16th centuries. Notable families include the Dukes or Marquises such as Slate, Vargas, Carvajal, Orellana, and Chaves. The plaza is guarded by the Church of San Martin de Tours, the “Council Houses,” the “Royal Weight House,” and the “Chain House,” all flanked by defensive towers and dominated by the famous equestrian statue of the Conqueror Francisco Pizarro.
• Estatua Ecuestre de Francisco Pizarro - The iconic equestrian statue of Francisco Pizarro, a native of Trujillo and conqueror of the Inca Empire, stands proudly in the Plaza Mayor. Crafted from solid bronze, it weighs approximately 6,500 kg. This statue was a gift to the city from its creator, American sculptor Charles Rumsey, in 1927 and was unveiled two years later.
• Palacio del Marques de la Conquista - The Marquis de la Conquista Palace, a title bestowed by Emperor Charles V to Francisco Pizarro, is Plateresque in style. It was commissioned by Pizarro in his will, and his heiress daughter, the Inca princess Francisco Pizarro Yupanqui, along with her uncle and husband, Hernando Pizarro, fulfilled this wish.

The spectacular corner balcony features the immense shield of the Marquisate, carved in granite, depicting significant aspects of the Conquest of the Inca Empire. Busts of Francisco Pizarro, his wife, daughter, and brother Hernando are prominently displayed on either side of the balcony. The facade is adorned with a repeated series of the Pizarro family crest, represented by two bears reaching for pine cones on a slate floor.

• Casas del Concejo de Trujillo - The Casas del Concejo, or former Town Hall, located in the Plaza Mayor of Trujillo, was a multifunctional building comprising the Consistory, the Archive of Scribes, the Chapel of Good Government, and the Royal Prison, accessed via a vaulted passageway known as the “jail canyon.”

Commissioned at the end of the 15th century by Isabella the Catholic and renovated during the reign of Charles I, the nobility who held political power began constructing their palaces around it, shaping the Plaza Mayor. Today, this building houses the Courthouses.

• Palacio De Los Orellana Toledo - Also known as the Palace of the Marquises of Piedras Albas, it features an original lodge with three Florentine-influenced scarzan arches, as the owner’s wife and co-director of the city was related to the Piccolomini family and Pope Pius II. The building is topped with a beautifully carved Gothic cresting in granite.
• Palacio de Carvajal Vargas - Palacio de San Carlos - The Palace of the Dukes of San Carlos, Renaissance in style and four stories high, features a stylized portico gallery on the third floor, consisting of three half-point arches and Ionic columns. A corner balcony framed with two bicephalous eagles, an imperial symbol, is a privilege granted by Emperor Charles V, along with the title of Dukes of San Carlos. The structure is topped by seven unique tower-shaped chimneys and a spiral staircase with a pinnacle. Built in the 16th century by the first “Major Mail of the Indians,” Don Lorenzo Galíndez de Carvajal, the private monopoly was inherited by the family until the 18th century when it became a public service under the crown. Today, it remains with the direct descendants, now Dukes of San Carlos.
• Iglesia de San Martin - The Church of San Martín de Tours existed as a small hermitage in the 14th century and was expanded in the 16th century by Trujillan architect Sancho de Cabrera, maintaining a single nave. Other notable local stonemasons, such as Alonso and his son Francisco Becerra, architects of corner balconies, convents, churches, and cathedrals, also contributed. Its unique side door dates back to the 15th century, featuring a trilobed Elizabethan Gothic arch, while its main door is Renaissance.

Inside, it houses a 17th-century Baroque altarpiece, an 18th-century Baroque organ, a large 13th-century Romanesque wood carving of Our Lady of the Crown, and a striking Gothic wood image of the 14th-century “Christ of the Waters.”

• Palacio de Orellanas-Pizarro - Built in the 16th century by Juan Pizarro de Orellana, a cousin of the Conqueror who also participated in the American gestation. Upon his return, he constructed this palace on an old military house with defensive towers, featuring a beautiful loggia, a Renaissance balcony, and a typical cover characteristic of the architects Becerra. Inside, it boasts a spectacular Plateresque cloistered courtyard.

This palace was converted into a contracting house, linked with the one in Seville, where those departing for America could arrange their papers directly.

D. Miguel de Cervantes also stayed here for a time after being released from his prison in Algiers, where he came to offer his shackles to the Virgin of Guadalupe.

• Casa-Fuerte de Luis de Chaves “el Viejo” - This strong house for military use, with defensive towers, was built on the Arab wall, next to one of the seven entrance doors to the medieval village, flanked by the military tower of this house and the bell tower of the church of Santiago, from which the curfew was given in the evening.

It hosted the Catholic Monarchs on several occasions, in 1477 to pacify civil strife between the nobles, and in 1479 during the War of the Succession against the Beltraneja. When John II of Aragon died while Isabel and Fernando were staying here, they held funerals in the Church of Santa María elder de Trujillo, summoning the Council that recognized Fernando as the new King of Aragon and Sicily, signing a document recognizing the union of this crown with that of Castile and the new monarchs as Kings of Spain, known as the “So much Monta.” Here, the peace of the War against the Beltraneja and Portugal was also signed.

• Castillo de Trujillo - This Muslim Alcazaba, built between the 9th and 10th centuries, was used purely for military and defensive purposes, not residential, so it lacks rooms but has two walled outdoor spaces. The first, square in shape, serves as a yard of arms, and the second, polygonal in shape, is the Albacar, for animal protection. The first contains a 10th-century cistern and a hermitage that hosts the city’s Patron Saint, the Virgin of Victory.

During the time of Peter I “the cruel,” the wealth of the Crown was kept here, as it was one of the safest fortresses in the kingdom. It also served as a refuge for the Beltraneja until she had to surrender it to Isabella the Catholic and flee to Plasencia, where she was able to marry her uncle, the King of Portugal, as the wedding initially arranged in Trujillo did not succeed.

• Iglesia de Santa Maria la Mayor - This was the most significant religious building in the city, where the main lineages and the most illustrious Conquerors who shaped their medieval past are buried. Among others, the tomb of Captain Diego García de Paredes stands out, celebrated in “Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes as the “Extremeño Samson” for his physical strength, and the subject of several legends.

Built in the 13th century after the reconquest, in late Romanesque style, it preserves its apse and Romanesque tower, which fell during the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 and was rebuilt in the 20th century by a Trujillan stonemason, who finished it by placing a shield of the Athletic Club of Bilbao.

In the 16th century, the temple was enlarged, featuring an artistic Plateresque choir and its main altarpiece by the Salmantine Gothic painter Fernando Gallego. The church witnessed the funeral of King John II of Aragon and, several years later, the funeral of his son Ferdinand the Catholic.

• Aljibe Hispano-Musulman - This cistern belonged to the annexed Fort-House of Fernán Ruiz de Altamirano, likely a former Muslim Alcázar. It features Arabic tracery, with three naves on master walls and arches supported by pilasters, covered with three half-barreled vaults. The materials used in its construction include granite ashlars, masonry, and sandstone.

Measuring 10 meters deep, 13 meters long, and 12 meters wide, it is a large quadrangular space with remnants of oil that the Arabs used in paint to seal and protect the surfaces and keep drinking water.

It was sealed for several centuries, likely during a time of war, to prevent enemy use or poisoning, until it was rediscovered by chance in the 20th century.

• Tourist Passport with discounts on entrance fees to monuments
• Discounts at restaurants
• Discounts on typical products of the region

A very complete panoramic GUIDED TOUR, of about two hours duration, accompanied by an OFFICIAL TOURISM GUIDE, through all the places of tourist interest of the Monumental Historical Complex of Trujillo, its magnificent Plaza Mayor and its unique Medieval Village.

Our OFFICIAL TOURIST GUIDES, with extensive professional experience, will tell you in an entertaining and entertaining way the stories, exploits, legends and curiosities of celebrated Trujillons who conquered the New World and Cultural Heritage that have made Trujillo, “Cradle of Hispanidad and Conquistadors”, one of the most beautiful municipalities in Spain and in Perfect City by UNESCO, to live a historical, legendary and monumental experience, enjoying every step.

When you take our OFFICIAL GUIDED TOUR, you will get THE TOURIST PASSPORT OF TRUJILLO, which includes:

• DISCOUNTS ON TICKETS TO MONUMENTS
• DISCOUNTS IN TYPICAL LOCAL RESTAURANTS
• DISCOUNTS IN REGIONAL TYPICAL PRODUCTS STORES

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.