Barcelona

Barcelona is one of the most visited cities in Europe, combining Gaudí’s architecture with beaches, tapas bars and a lively street life. Explore the Gothic Quarter, take the cable car up Montjuïc and visit the National Art Museum of Catalonia. Architecture lovers should see Casa Vicens, Casa Amatller and the Palau de la Música Catalana, while art fans head to the Picasso Museum. Football fans can tour Camp Nou. Start planning with our Barcelona travel guide.

Monuments in Spain

The story of Casa Amatller - A chocolate fortune, a Flemish gable and a home frozen in 1900

Next door, the crowds queue for a dragon. Here, a chocolate maker's family left their slippers, cameras and teacups exactly where they were.Casa Amatller is the house that chocolate...
Natural Attractions in Spain

First visit to Park Güell? The Monumental Zone, the dragon stairs and the best entrance

What do a failed housing estate, a mosaic dragon and a bench that snakes for more than 100...
Monuments in Spain

Best time to visit Barcelona Cathedral - Free worship hours, the rooftop terraces and the thirteen geese

Thirteen white geese patrol a Gothic cloister in the middle of a city of almost two million people....
Monuments in Spain

Should you book a guided tour of Palau de la Música Catalana? The stained-glass skylight, the stage muses and how to see a concert

Most concert halls switch off the daylight before the music starts. This one was built to let the...
Museums and Art Galleries in Spain

MNAC map and route - Romanesque apses, Gaudí furniture and a rooftop over Barcelona

Some of the paintings inside were peeled off church walls high in the Pyrenees, rolled up and carried...

Inside the Barcelona Aquarium - An 80-metre shark tunnel, penguins and a submarine ride to the deep

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A moving walkway hums under your feet, while a long shadow lined with ragged teeth slides silently across the glass above your head.Barcelona Aquarium,...

Barcelona travel guide - Gaudí masterpieces, Gothic lanes and a 3-day plan

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After 144 years of construction, its most famous church has just become the tallest in the world. You'll need far less time to fall...
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