8-Hour Barcelona Private Tour

Highlights

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Itinerary

1. Start of the Tour from your Hotel, the Port or the Barcelona Airport. The itinerary can change depending on the starting/ ending place and the preferences of the client.

2. Plaza Catalunya is a centric square in Barcelona, one of the city's nerve centers. It has an area of 5 hectares. It constitutes the point of union between the old town of Barcelona and the Ensanche (one of the city's districts).

   10 min

3. Paseo de Gracia is one of the main avenues in Barcelona. It's full of commercial and business areas; it also includes lots of important examples of Modernist Architecture, such as the Casa Batlló or la Pedrera by Antoni Gaudí, and other houses by great Catalan architects like Lluís Domènech i Montaner. These buildings are considered to be part of the World Heritage by the Unesco. The avenue is located in the center of Barcelona, the Ensanche, and it connects Plaza Cataluña with the Calle Mayor de Gracia to the west.

   25 min

4. The Casa Lleó i Morera is a Modernist building built by the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner. It's located in the number 35 in Paseo de Gracia.

   10 min

5. The Casa Amatller is a Modernist building adjacent to the Casa Batlló and near the Casa Lleó i Morera. It was projected by the architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch between 1898 and 1900.

   5 min

6. The Casa Batlló is a building designed by Antoni Gaudí, the greatest exponent modernist Catalan movement. The construction was between 1904 and 1906. It is located in the number 43 of Paseo de Gracia, in the named "Manzana de la Discordia" (literally "Apple of Discord"). This name was born due to the concentration of modernist buildings by different architects: la Casa Amatller, la Casa Lleó i Morera, la Casa Mulleras and la Casa Josefina Bonet.

   5 min

7. The Casa Milà, commonly known as "La Pedrera" is a Modernist building by Antoni Gaudí, built between 1906 and 1910. It is one of the most visited buildings in Barcelona, with 20 million visitors since its opening to the public in 1987.

   10 min

8. Plaza del Cinco de Oros, previously known as Plaza de Juan Carlos I, can be found in the Ensanche District. It is located in the intersection between the Diagonal Avenue and Paseo de Gracia.

   Passes by

9. The Sagrada Familia is a Catholic basilica projected by Antonio Gaudí. The construction began in 1882 and it is still under construction. It's considered Gaudí's masterpiece. One of Spain's main attractions and the most visited church in Europe, just after Saint Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. When its construction concludes, it will be the tallest christian church in the world.

   30 min

10. The Hospital de la Santa Cruz y San Pablo, projected by Lluís Domènech i Montaner, is a modernist hospital. It was built between 1902 and 1930 in two phases: the first one by Domènech i Montaner himself (1902 - 1913), during which 13 modernist building were built; the second one, by the architect's son Pere, starting in 1920, who built 6 more buildings with a milder modernism. With its main building and its numerous pavilions, the Hospital de San Pablo is, with the Instituto Pere Mata in Reus (also by Domènech i Montaner), one of the greatest modernist complexes in Catalonia. Even though the original project was not built in its totality, its notoriety was recognized with a great number of prizes and it was even considered part of the World Heritage by the Unesco in 1997.

    10 min

11. The Parque Güell is a public park with gardens and different architectural elements located in the upper part of the city of Barcelona. Conceived as a residential complex, the park was designed by Antoni Gaudí, the greatest exponent of Catalan Modernism, commissioned by the businessman Eusebi Güell. Built between 1900 and 1914, it was inaugurated as a public park in 1926. The Parque Güell shows Gaudí's artistic plenitude: this work belongs to his naturalist era (first decade of the XX Century), a period when the architect perfected his personal style inspired by the organic shapes of nature. In the Parque Güell, Gaudí used all of his architecural genious and put into practice a lot of his innovative structural solutions, that later would be characteristic of his organic style and would culminate in the Sagrada Familia.

    40 min

12. The Casa Vicens is a modernist building located in the Calle de las Carolinas 18-24 (Gracia District). Work by Antoni Gaudí, it was his first relevant project after he got his degree as an architect in 1878. It was built between 1883 and 1888. When the Casa Vicens was built, Gracia was still independent to Barcelona with its own city hall, it was considered a village. Today it's part of Barcelona. This building belongs to Gaudí's orientalist era (1883 - 1888), period during which the architect built a series of works with an evident oriental taste, inspired by the art of the Middle East and the Far East (India, Persia and Japan), as well as the Islamic Hispanic art, mostly Mudejar and Nasrid styles. The building was declared an Official Asset of Cultural Interest the 24th of July 1969, and part of the World Heritage in 2005.

    10 min

Cancellation

Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.

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How it compares in Barcelona

• Its from-price is 1479% above the median of the 3008 experiences we list in Barcelona.
• It is longer than most of them.
• By number of reviews it ranks 942 of 3008.
• The operator lists free cancellation on it.

About Barcelona

Barcelona sets Gaudí's fantastical buildings and a medieval Gothic Quarter between Mediterranean beaches and green hills, with food and nightlife to match.

Antoni Gaudí's work defines the city's image. The Sagrada Família rises over the Eixample, Casa Batlló and Casa Milà line the elegant Passeig de Gràcia, and Park Güell's mosaic terraces look out over the rooftops. The Gothic Quarter keeps its cathedral, narrow lanes and hidden squares, and El Born adds the Picasso Museum and the soaring church of Santa Maria del Mar.

Top-ranked sights in Barcelona: Sagrada Família, Montserrat Mountain, Gothic Quarter (Barri Gòtic).

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