Best hostels in Segovia

Segovia's old town compresses two thousand years of stone into a walkable crescent between the Roman aqueduct and the Alcázar, and nearly every hostel and budget bed falls inside that crescent or just below the aqueduct's arches along Avenida del Acueducto. This is not a city that splits neatly into rival quarters the way Madrid or Barcelona do: the cathedral, the Plaza Mayor, and the roast-lamb mesones all sit within the same fifteen-minute walk, so the real question is not which neighborhood but which altitude: high inside the walled old town, where streets narrow and suitcase wheels catch on cobbles, or low near the aqueduct plaza, where the bus station and the cheaper beds cluster. One area dominates the traveler inventory, and the budget tier here punches well above its price.

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   Segovia

   Walled old town between the Roman aqueduct and the Alcázar, central Segovia

   Budget beds inside a compact, walkable medieval quarter where the aqueduct, cathedral, and roast-lamb row are all within a ten-euro taxi of each other, or more likely, a flat stroll.

   Light catches the granite arches of the aqueduct at the eastern gate of the old town, and from there the whole traveler map of Segovia unfolds uphill along Calle Real toward the Plaza Mayor and the cathedral. Hotel Apartamentos Aralso sits inside this compact core and holds a 9.4 at about $63 a night: a score that would headline a mid-range tier in most Spanish cities, landed here in budget territory. Skip the glossy chain options down by the AVE rail station in Guiomar; the locals know that sleeping inside the walls means the mesones on Calle Cervantes and the floodlit aqueduct are a short walk, not a taxi fare. The bus station on Avenida del Acueducto connects to Madrid's Moncloa in under ninety minutes, so day-trippers crowd the Plaza by noon and drain out by evening: book a bed inside the walls and you inherit the quiet city they leave behind. This is the area for a traveler who wants stone underfoot, not resort amenities.

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      Hotel Apartamentos Aralso

      All great when we arrived showed us all kinds of things to do and where to eat, the room is very cosy and the very quiet area

      9.4/10 rating ~$63/night
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