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title: "How many steps up La Giralda, Seville Cathedral? 17"
description: "17 steps up La Giralda, Seville Cathedral in Seville, Spain. Open to climb. What that count reaches, the height climbed, and how it compares."
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# How many steps to the top of La Giralda, Seville Cathedral?

**Steps to the top of La Giralda, Seville Cathedral: 17**

Reaching the bell chamber at 70 m — the rest of the ascent is 35 ramps, not stairs · open to climb

The useful correction in this list: the Giralda has almost no steps. It is climbed by 35 gently rising ramps, built wide enough for the muezzin to ride a horse to the top when the tower was a twelfth-century minaret, with only a short flight of about 17 steps at the very end into the bell chamber. That makes it by far the easiest of Europe's major tower climbs and the only one a wheelchair user might in principle manage, though the surface and the crowding still rule it out. Publications that quote a step count for the Giralda are usually counting the ramps.

## The numbers

- **Steps:** 17
- **Reaches:** the bell chamber at 70 m — the rest of the ascent is 35 ramps, not stairs
- **Public access:** Open to climb
- **Where:** Seville, Spain
- **Height climbed:** 70 m — 230 ft
- **Average rise per step:** 4118 mm

## What the climb is like

About 20 minutes on a continuous ramp. No spiral staircase; much easier than any comparable tower.

> Published counts for the same structure routinely disagree by five to ten per cent, and nearly always for one of three reasons: whether intermediate landings count as steps, whether the final platform step counts, and where the climb is deemed to start. The figure here says what it reaches.

## How it compares

*Only the ones marked open to climb can actually be walked.*

- The Motherland Calls (Mamayev Kurgan): 200 steps
- Wembley Stadium (Royal Box): 107 steps
- Lincoln Memorial: 57 steps
- La Giralda, Seville Cathedral: 17 steps

*La Giralda, Seville Cathedral ranks 56 of 56 here by step count.*

| Structure | Steps | Reaches | Access |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The Motherland Calls (Mamayev Kurgan) | 200 | the base of the statue, from the foot of the memorial complex | Open to climb |
| Wembley Stadium (Royal Box) | 107 | the Royal Box, where trophies are presented | Restricted — events or permit only |
| Lincoln Memorial | 57 | the statue chamber, from the plaza at the Reflecting Pool | Open to climb |
| La Giralda, Seville Cathedral | 17 | the bell chamber at 70 m — the rest of the ascent is 35 ramps, not stairs | Open to climb |

## Common questions

### How many steps to the top of La Giralda, Seville Cathedral?

17, reaching the bell chamber at 70 m — the rest of the ascent is 35 ramps, not stairs.

### Can the public climb La Giralda, Seville Cathedral?

Open to climb. About 20 minutes on a continuous ramp. No spiral staircase; much easier than any comparable tower.

### How high is that climb?

70 m, about 230 ft, which averages 4118 mm per step.

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