If you've driven past Tovrea Castle and wondered what it's like inside, now may be your chance.
State of play: The lottery for fall tour tickets begins Sunday and runs through June 15.
Winners get the right to purchase tickets for the September-December tour season. Tickets are $22.
Tours last about 75 minutes and only cover the main floor and basement because of fire code issues and a lack of sufficient exits on the upper floors, per the Phoenix New Times.
You can also sometimes find last-minute tickets online. Check regularly for availability.
Flashback: The origins of the castle, one of the Valley's most distinctive and visible landmarks, date back to 1929.
Alessio Carraro, an Italian immigrant, land developer and gold miner, intended it to be a hotel at the center of a resort.
Then the Great Depression hit, and Carraro sold the property to cattle baron Edward Ambrose Tovrea, who died shortly after. His widow Della lived there until her 1969 death.
The City of Phoenix bought the site from the Tovrea estate in 1993.
