Sacra Capilla del Salvador

About Sacra Capilla del Salvador

Francisco de los Cobos, the most powerful official at the court of Charles V, commissioned the chapel in 1536 as a family pantheon beside his palace. Diego de Siloé drew the plans and Andrés de Vandelvira directed the work from 1540; it was consecrated in 1559. Part of the Úbeda and Baeza World Heritage Site since 2003, it still belongs to the Fundación Casa Ducal de Medinaceli.

The façade, carved by Esteban Jamete, shows the Transfiguration above the portal. Inside, a single nave and a monumental grille lead to a domed rotunda whose altarpiece holds Alonso Berruguete's Transfiguration, damaged in 1936. Vandelvira's sacristy, with Jamete's caryatids and sibyls, is one of the richest Renaissance interiors in Spain.

Tickets cost €7 with an audio guide (ages 8–15 €4), and individuals enter free on weekdays from 09:30 to 10:00, except holidays. No booking is needed. Hours change by month: usually from 09:30 Monday to Saturday and from 12:00 on Sunday, with a midday break on some days. Allow under an hour. Park outside the old town and walk; wheelchair users should ask staff about access.

Use the free half-hour at 09:30 on a weekday, or come late in the day after the tour groups. Check the current timetable first, and allow time for Plaza Vázquez de Molina and its palaces, including the town hall in the Palacio de las Cadenas.

Sacra Capilla del Salvador in pictures

What you’ll find

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• Free entryFree visit (09:30–10:00)Free
• Monument visitSelf-guided visit (€4–€7, from 09:30)Ticket

Nearby places to visit

Two existing museums are a few minutes' walk away: the St John of the Cross Museum (200 m), in the oratory where the mystic died, and the Archaeological Museum of Úbeda (300 m), in a Mudéjar house. Baeza Cathedral (9 km) and the Palacio de Jabalquinto (9 km) complete the Renaissance pair of towns. Near Linares, the Iberian and Roman city of Cástulo (23 km) can be seen on the same day, and the Castillo de la Yedra (34 km) guards Cazorla at the gateway to the Sierra de Cazorla natural park.