Mortality & Mourning Candlelight Tour

Mortality & Mourning: Women in Black Candlelight Tour
This October experience the newly re-imagined candlelight tour, Mortality and Mourning: Women in Black. This hauntingly elegant experience builds on last year’s popular event, offering a deeper and more personal look into the ways women shaped and were shaped by grief, death, and mourning in Old St. Augustine.
Where: Ximenez-Fatio House Museum
When: Fridays & Saturdays, October 2-31, 2026 | 6:30pm and 7:30pm
Explore the 228-year-old Ximenez-Fatio House Museum draped in mourning. Uncover the roles women played as caretakers of the dead, keepers of memory, and practitioners of spiritualism from the Second Spanish Colonial Era through the Victorian Age. Through powerful stories, period customs, and historic mourning attire, this immersive tour casts new light on how women lived with loss in the 19th century.
Tickets: $25.00
With the purchase of your ticket, you will receive a coupon code giving you a 25% off discount for our Everyday Self-guided Audio tour. This will give you the chance to learn the house’s full history and see it in the daylight as well as by candlelight.
To learn more about the tour and to purchase your ticket(s), click the event website link.