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We’ve compiled the best of the best in Barcelona - browse our top choices for the top things to see or do during your stay.
Founded in the 10th century, this is one of Europe's earliest medical complexes, and contains some of Barcelona's most impressive Gothic architecture...Read More
This 1911 neo-Mudejar Art Nouveau masterpiece, originally built to house a factory by Josep Puig i Cadafalch (architect of Casa de les Punxes...Read More
View Tours and ActivitiesUsually referred to as "La Pedrera" (the Stone Quarry), this building, with its wavy, curving stone facade undulating around the corner of the...Read More
Barcelona's cathedral is a repository of centuries of the city's history and legend—although as a work of architecture visitors might find it...Read More
Barcelona's opera house has long been considered one of the most beautiful in Europe, a rival to La Scala in Milan. First built in 1848, this...Read More
View Tours and ActivitiesOn Carrer Amadeus Vives, just off Via Laietana, a 10-minute walk from Plaça de Catalunya, is one of the world's most extraordinary music halls...Read More
Gaudí built this mansion in 1886–89 for textile baron Count Eusebi de Güell Bacigalupi, his most important patron. (The prominent four bars...Read More
View Tours and ActivitiesThis little square is as compact a nexus of history as anything the Barri Gòtic has to offer. Long held to be the scene of Columbus's triumphal...Read More
View Tours and ActivitiesCreated for the 1929 International Exhibition, the Spanish Village is a sort of open-air architectural museum, with faithful replicas to scale...Read More
View Tours and ActivitiesAmong the more recent tourist attractions in Barcelona, the Recinte Modernista (Modernist Complex) is set in what was surely one of the most...Read More
Barcelona's oldest monastic church was originally outside the city walls ( del camp means "in the fields") and was a Roman cemetery as far...Read More
An example of early Catalan Gothic architecture, Santa Maria del Mar is extraordinary for its unbroken lines and elegance. At what was then...Read More
Barcelona's most emblematic architectural icon, Antoni Gaudí's Sagrada Família, is still under construction some 135 years after it was begun...Read More
The 15th-century city hall on Plaça Sant Jaume faces the Palau de la Generalitat, with its mid-18th-century neoclassical facade, across the...Read More
The neo-Gothic Casa Amatller was built by Josep Puig i Cadafalch in 1900, when the architect was 33 years old. Eighteen years younger than Domènech...Read More
View Tours and ActivitiesGaudí at his most spectacular, the Casa Batlló is actually a makeover: it was originally built in 1877 by one of Gaudí's teachers, Emili Sala...Read More
View Tours and ActivitiesLike something out of an amusement park, this former umbrella shop was whimsically designed (assembled is more like it) by Josep Vilaseca in...Read More
The interior of this 15th-century building, home of the Municipal Archives (upstairs), has superb views of the remains of the 4th-century Roman...Read More
This house occupies what were once the grounds and buildings of a 14th-century Carthusian convent—though the convent itself is long gone. The...Read More
With its charming ivy-covered and palm-shaded courtyard, this property was once a vocational school and a home for the children of the destitute...Read More
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