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Essential Barcelona: from La Rambla to the Sagrada Família

A route to understand Barcelona in a morning: its most famous promenade, its market, the square that joins the old and new city, and three Gaudí buildings that changed architecture.

  • 6 stops
  • 4.2 km
  • 2 h 30 min
  • Free
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The Sagrada Família and its Nativity façade from Plaça de Gaudí

The route

Stop by stop

  1. 1 La Rambla and the Miró mosaicAn old stream bed turned into Barcelona's most famous promenade, with a Miró under your feet.
  2. 2 La Boqueria MarketEight centuries of buying and selling beside La Rambla, under an iron roof from 1914.
  3. 3 Plaça de CatalunyaThe hinge between the old city and the Eixample, born on wasteland outside the walls.
  4. 4 Casa BatllóAn ordinary house that Gaudí turned into scales, bones and masks, on the Block of Discord.
  5. 5 La Pedrera (Casa Milà)A house without a single straight line, mockingly nicknamed «the quarry» by the people of Barcelona.
  6. 6 Sagrada FamíliaA church begun in 1882 that Gaudí knew he would never see finished, and today the tallest church in the world.

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What you’ll discover

Essential Barcelona: from La Rambla to the Sagrada Família

La Rambla and its market

A Miró underfoot, the Liceu opera house and eight centuries of trade at La Boqueria.

Gaudí on Passeig de Gràcia

Casa Batlló and La Pedrera, two ways of reinventing a house.

The Sagrada Família

The church begun in 1882 that is now the tallest in the world.

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