- Category
- Excursions and Day Trips
- Duration
- 6 hours
- Location
- Madrid
Segovia Excursion from Madrid
Explore Segovia with an Expert
For a full-fledged multicultural experience, we recommend our Madrid to Toledo day trip—Toledo being known as "City of Three Cultures."
A Closer Look at Segovia's History
Looking for another historian-led day trip from Madrid? Try our Madrid to El Escorial tour.
FAQ About the Segovia Day Trip from Madrid
You meet in Madrid at the Moncloa bus station. Your confirmation email will have the exact meeting point into. The tour ends in Segovia. Your bus tickets are open-ended, so you can return to Madrid at your leisure. Most visitors choose to stay in Segovia, get lunch, and explore on their own.
You will meet in Madrid and take the bus with your expert. The journey is about 1 hour.
We can potentially organize a private walk on a special theme. Please contact us for more information.
For private tours, sure. Just mention this in the notes section of the booking, and we'll get in touch with a quote.
This tour is fairly walking-intensive and the route may include narrow sidewalks and cobblestoned streets. Please contact us to discuss in more detail your mobility concerns so that we can best advise. We are also happy to design a private, customized tour for visitors with mobility concerns.

Professor Marta López Beriso is an active scholar and educator in the field of Art History. She teaches at various American universities in Madrid. She holds degrees in Art History and Arcaheology (B.A. Université de La Sorbonne-Paris IV), Arts and Culture Administration (M.A. Universidad de Barcelona), and a PhD in Art History, expertise in History of Photography (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). Her publications include articles and papers published in catalogues, scholarly magazines and guides for the general public. She is also the founder and director of “Aulas de Arte”, a private non-profit organization, dedicated to educational services in museums, nationwide and internationally. She is the former Adjunct Director at the Esteban Vicente Contemporary Art Museum, Segovia, as well as Director of Education at Museo Picasso Málaga. Born and raised in Madrid, she has studied in Paris and also worked in New York at the beginning of her professional career, at MOMA. Back in Madrid she feels the city as a cosmopolitan insider. She knows both the historical and traditional Madrid she discovered with her mother and grandmother as well as the most contemporary and alternative side of the city.

Enrique has lived in Madrid since he was three and at an early age he had already discovered his love for art when he went to visit "the most viewed painting of all times" Guernica, by Pablo Picasso. This led him into study art history, where he specialized in Nineteenth Century Spanish painting, and began a doctorate in History focusing on the Death penalty in Spain from 1800 until1975. Well travelled, art and history lover and true "local" passionate about the history of his beloved city, he will be a great match for anyone looking for authentic in-depth history or art tour.

Sean has a 5 year History degree from UAM (Madrid) where he specialized in late medieval Castilian history. He also spent a full year at NUI (Maynooth, Ireland) researching the history of the Irish Colleges in the continent during the early 1600's. He later moved on to the study of the hispano-portuguese colonial presence in Asia and worked for the Spanish Association for Pacific Studies at UCM, Madrid. He's been a visiting professor at KYUDAI (Fukuoka, Japan) and has lectured at many seminars and conferences in Spain during the early 2000's precisely in the field of Southeast Asian studies. In the meantime Sean has been actively working as a tour guide in Spain running cultural tours for English-speaking travelers. He is currently working mostly as a local guide in Madrid.
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