• Four ways onto the wall: Puerta del Alcázar, Carnicerías, Arco del Carmen and Puente Adaja, so you can do one stretch or link them
• Last entry 45 minutes before closing (30 at the Alcázar gate), so arrive early on short winter days
• Summer evenings on the wall: from late March to October 25 the Carnicerías and Carmen sections stay open until 10pm on Fridays to Tuesdays

Ávila is ringed by a complete medieval wall with 87 towers, and you can walk along the top of about 1.7 km of it, looking down into gardens and across the rooftops to the plain. Kids can spot Roman tombstones and carved stone boars reused as building blocks in the east wall, then cross the river to Los Cuatro Postes, where the whole walled city fits in one view.