Barcelona Gaudí & Modernisme Architecture Walking Tour - Led by a Practicing Architect

Walk through Barcelona's Modernisme architecture
with a practicing architect

On this roughly 3-hour morning walking tour, you explore buildings from the Modernisme era in Barcelona with a practicing architect as your guide. All guides are working architects, and most are also architecture professors and critics, so they explain the buildings you visit in depth with broad knowledge. The tour starts next to Joan Brossa's sculpture in front of the Comedia Cinema, at the intersection of Passeig de Gràcia and Gran Via.

See Gaudí's residential buildings, including Casa Batlló and Casa Milà

Admire Antoni Gaudí's three great residential buildings: Casa Calvet, Casa Batlló and Casa Milà. Follow Gaudí's journey from social concerns to complete devotion to the sacred, until he finally became known as 'the last great cathedral builder'.

Learn about the turning points in his career, such as his Manhattan project, the last commission from his patron Eusebi Güell, and his first steps with the Sagrada Família. You will also hear about the architectural essence and visual power that made Gaudí the most famous Spanish architect and an inspiration to the Surrealists.

Explore works by his contemporaries and hidden courtyards

Admire other Modernisme buildings such as the Fundació Antoni Tàpies and Casa Lleó Morera designed by Domènech i Montaner, and Casa Amatller designed by Puig i Cadafalch. Learn how modern urbanism began and how hidden courtyards became public gardens.

Receive an architecture city guide after the tour

The walking tour ends at Casa Milà. After the tour, you will receive an architecture city guide created by a local partner team. It introduces places to enjoy a drink and more buildings worth seeing.

※ The tour does not enter the buildings and focuses on their exteriors.
※ The tour is cancelled only if the weather poses a safety risk.