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HALLMARKS AND HIGHLIGHTS IN BARCELONA

CAMP NOU

The visit to the Camp Nou Experience includes: visit to the museum, trophy area, multimedia room, Messi room, and a tour where you will get to see the visitor team’s locker room, the tunnel, mixed zone, press room and pitch.

PARC DE MONTJUÏC

Venues such as the Fundació Miró, Archaeology and Ethnology Museums, as well as the National Art Museum (MNAC) can all be found in the Montjuic area. The MNAC is in the Palau Nacional, the central building from the 1929 World Expo, where you can discover a thousand years’ worth of Catalan art.

SAGRADA FAMÍLIA

In 1882, Gaudí took the reins of an ambitious project to create the most fascinating church of all time. The Gospel in architectural form, the Sagrada Familia (Sacred Family) has become the symbol of Barcelona.

TIBIDABO AMUSEMENT PARK

At the highest point in Barcelona, the Tibidabo Amusement Park has been one of the hallmarks of the city for more than a century. The collective unconscious of several generations of Barcelonians holds the park as a place of leisure, surprises and fun.

TRIUMPHAL ARCH

In the upper end of Passeig de Lluís Companys, the Arc de Triomf stands as the entrance of the 1888 World Expo, dominating what was, back then, the Sant Joan Hall that led to the fair at the Parc de la Ciutadella.

PARC GÜELL

Parc Güell is the result of an attempt of creating a garden city of sorts within the area of the Vila de Gràcia. Behind this ambitious project was Eusebi Güell, patron of Antoni Gaudí.

GOTHIC QUARTER

The Town Hall as well as the Palau de la Generalitat, the Cathedral of Barcelona, and Gothic churches like Santa Maria del Pi or Sant Just i Pastor.

PORT OLÍMPIC

Nautical sports, beaches and many seafood-based restaurants are some of the main attractions of this most Mediterranean area of Barcelona.

LES RAMBLES

Being one of the best-known streets in Barcelona, it is home to the Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona’s Opera House), the Palau de la Virreina or the Mercat de la Boqueria.

PARC DE CERVANTES

Since 2001 it has been home to an international rose contest, where new varieties are presented and added to the collection, now already 245-strong, with around 10,000 plants.

PAVELLONS DE LA FINCA GÜELL

It was Eusebi Güell’s desire to enlarge the family’s leisure estate that led to Antoni Gaudí being appointed as the director of the project, which was the beginning of a fruitful sponsorship.

PARC DEL LABERINT D’HORTA

It was designed by Italian engineer Domenico Bagutti in 1792, by request of the estate’s owner, Joan Desvalls, Marquis of Llupià and Alfarràs.

PARC DE L’ESPANYA INDUSTRIAL

A navigable canal, the giant statue of a dragon, lawns and Mediterranean trees, and sports fields. Ideal for a relaxed day out with the family, and away from the city noises.

PARC DE COLLSEROLA

Beyond the well-known image of the Tibidabo, there are protected woods and ploughed fields that are the home of many species, both plants and animals. Nature just 15 minutes from the big city.

LA PEDRERA – CASA MILÀ

A modernist building at the heart of Passeig de Gràcia, and one of the key pieces in Gaudí’s career. It was the architect’s last civil work, and built between 1906 and 1912.

CASA VICENS – GAUDÍ

The work of Antoni Gaudí, it was the first important project of the architect after his degree as an architect in 1878.

COLONIA GÜELL

The development of Colonia Güell began in 1890 at the initiative of the businessman Eusebi Güell in his estate Can Soler de la Torre, located in the municipality of Santa Coloma de Cervelló, now the Baix Llobregat.

CASA-MUSEU GAUDÍ

Located within Parc Güell, the Casa-Museu was Gaudí’s residence from 1906 to 1925.

PALACIO GÜELL

The Palau Güell is one of the first important projects Gaudí received at the beginning of his career. Eusebi Güell wanted Gaudí to build him this peculiar urban palace as an extension of the family house he had on the Ramblas in Barcelona.

CASA BATLLÓ – GAUDÍ

Casa Batlló is a UNESCO World Patrimony and an icon of Barcelona, an essential stop to get to know Gaudí’s work and modernism at its best.

CASA AMATLLER – PUIG I CADAFALCH

Casa Amatller, together with the neighbouring Casa Batlló, by Gaudí, and Casa Lleó Morera, by Domènech i Montaner, forms part of Barcelona’s “apple of discord”.

CASA CALVET – GAUDÍ

Modernist style building designed by Antoni Gaudí built between 1898 and 1900 and located at 48 Caspe Street. It is currently a restaurant.

CASA COMALAT – SALVADOR VALERI

The architect Salvador Valeri i Pupurull worked on the construction of the Comalat house between 1909 and 1911, clearly influenced by Gaudí’s organic forms.

CASA DE LES PUNXES – JOSEP PUIG I CADAFALCH

Casa Terradas, popularly known as Casa de les Punxes – House of the skewers, in Catalan – is a building designed by the modernist architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch.

CASA FELIP – TELM FERNÁNDEZ I JANOT

Designed in 1905 by the architect Telmo Fernández Janot and built between 1911 and 1913. The building, in a crowded modernist style, is catalogued as a cultural asset of local interest.

CASA SAYRACH

At the corner between Enric Granados Street and Diagonal Avenue there was a late modernist building, built in 1918, when almost no architect worked in this style.

CASA THOMAS – LLUÍS DOMÈNECH I MONTANER

Designed by the modernist architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, commissioned by the industrialist José Thomas.

CASA “LLEÓ I MORERA” – DOMÈNECH I MONTANER

The project was commissioned in 1902 by Francesca Morera to reform the old Rocamora House from 1864, which housed the Sociedad de Fomento del Ensanche.

TORRE BELLESGUARD AND VIADUCT

Built between 1900 and 1909, the Casa Bellesguard is located in the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district, in the same place where Martí l’Humà (King Martin the Elder, last king of the lineage of Barcelona) had a castle built for him, taking up residence in 1410.

NATURAL SCIENCE MUSEUM OF BARCELONA

A modern building with part of the zoology, botany and geology collections of Barcelona’s Science Museum, an institution over 130 years old.

PARC DE L’ORENETA

The Parc de l’Oreneta (Park of the Swallow) is the ideal place to go with children. A children’s playground aside, the parc boasts a miniature steam railway, 635 metres long, with its own small station, crew, 11 steam locomotives and 3 carriages.

REFUGEE 307

When the war began, the basements and the subway network were the first places to be used as defence and protection. But when the bombings intensified their onslaught, these refuges were built with the help of common people.

MONASTERY OF SANTA MARIA DE PEDRALBES

The Museum-Monastery of Pedralbes includes the church and the monastery, its main feature being the spacious, three-storey Gothic cloister, around which the main rooms are laid out: the refectory, the dormitory, the abbey, the chapterhouse, and the day cells, one of which contains the wonderful mural paintings by Ferrer Bassa.

MUSEU PALMERO

Today, the permanent collection at the Museu Palmero consists of 125 paintings created by Maestro Palmero, which revolve around the characters of Cervantes’s Don Quixote.