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Want your visits to make sense without renting an audio guide? These pages give the keys to reading Barcelona’s finest sites, in the real order of the visit. They also say which ticket opens what, and the best time to come.
- Architecture and Modernisme · checked on 04/11/2026
Sagrada Família, against the light
Twelve stops in the basilica, on the Nativity side in the morning or the Passion side in the evening.
- Architecture and Modernisme · checked on 04/11/2026
Casa Batlló, the house of light
Twelve stops from the façade to the dragon roof, the light well floor by floor, and which ticket opens what.
- Architecture and Modernisme · checked on 04/11/2026
La Pedrera, the house without load-bearing walls
Seven stops from the façade to the warriors’ garden, the roof feature by feature, and which visit to choose.
- Architecture and Modernisme · checked on 05/11/2026
Casa Vicens, Gaudí’s first house
Eight stops from the gate to the roof: the 1883 summer house, its oriental smoking room, the 1925 wing and which visit to choose.
- Architecture and Modernisme · checked on 04/11/2026
Park Güell, the failed housing estate
Ten stops from the dragon stairway to the Calvari: Güell’s failed garden city, what Gaudí and Jujol made there, and how to get in.
- Architecture and Modernisme · checked on 04/11/2026
Sant Pau, the garden hospital
Twelve stops in Domènech i Montaner’s Modernista hospital: pavilions, tunnels, gardens, and six centuries in six dates.
- Architecture and Modernisme · checked on 04/11/2026
Palau de la Música Catalana, the glass hall
Ten stops, from Blay’s façade to the muses on the stage. The daylit hall, the Catalanist manifesto, the Millet scandal, and which visit to choose.
- History and heritage · checked on 05/11/2026
Barcelona Cathedral, Gothic twice
Twelve stops, from the 1913 façade to the 1298 nave. The Golden Fleece choir, the roof terraces, the cloister of the thirteen geese, and when to come.
- History and heritage · checked on 05/11/2026
Museu Picasso, a painter’s apprenticeship
Eleven stops from childhood drawings to the Meninas, in five palaces on Carrer de Montcada, then two traces of Picasso in the old town.