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Things to do in Barcelona on foot: self-guided walking tours

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Things to do in Barcelona on foot: self-guided walking tours

Real places, told on your phone by someone who was there, as you walk to them.

1: walk
8: places
4.6 km: on foot
1: guide

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The Barcelona walk

Gaudí's Last Walk Home

Barcelona · 114 min · 4.6 km · 8 stops · ★ 5.0

Gaudí's Last Walk Home

Antoni Gaudí

Told by Antoni Gaudí

the Sagrada Família's architect

The architect of the Sagrada Família walks you back into the old city.

Basilica of the Sagrada Familia

Mercat de la Boqueria

Barcelona Cathedral

Barcelona Cathedral

Plaça de Catalunya

Plaça de Catalunya

Font de Canaletes

Font de Canaletes

Plaça Sant Jaume

Plaça Sant Jaume

“My name is Antoni Gaudí, and I built in this city for fifty years. They call me a genius now. In my lifetime they called my work a quarry, and drew cartoons of it in the newspapers. Walk with me from the church that ate my life down into the old streets where…”

Basilica of the Sagrada FamiliaCasa BatllóMercat de la Boqueria

This month: Rain comes in now, sudden and hard some days. Keep to the covered market when it falls, the iron roof earns its keep.

Walk with Antoni Gaudí

Show the 8 stops ▾The stops ▴

1Basilica of the Sagrada Familia — Gaudí's unfinished expiatory temple, begun in 1882 and funded from the start by donations alone. Ticketed, with timed entry and queues; book ahead. The whole walk works from the public pavement outside.
2Plaça de Catalunya — The vast square where the medieval city met the nineteenth-century grid, urbanised in 1902. A public square, always open and free. Busy; watch your bag.
3Font de Canaletes — The ornate lamp-post fountain at the head of La Rambla, named after the old city wall's water pipes. Public drinking fountain, free, always accessible.
4Mercat de la Boqueria — Barcelona's great market hall, trading on this spot since 1217 and roofed in iron in 1914. A working public market — free to walk through. Closed Sundays; calmest before ten in the morning.
5Bàrcino — Joan Brossa's 1994 metal letters spelling the Roman name of the city, beside the old walls. Open street, always visible, free.
6Barcelona Cathedral — The thirteenth-to-fifteenth-century cathedral of the Holy Cross and Saint Eulàlia, with its goose-filled cloister. Entry to the cathedral and cloister is ticketed; the walk's telling works entirely from the open square outside.
7Plaça Sant Jaume — The administrative heart of Barcelona and Catalonia, with the city hall and the Generalitat palace facing each other. A public square, always open and free. The two palaces are working government buildings; both open to visitors only on limited days.
8Museu Picasso — Five adjoining medieval palaces on Carrer Montcada holding 4,251 works by Pablo Picasso. Museum, ticketed; free entry on some evenings and first Sundays. Closed Mondays. The street and the palace fronts are free to anyone.

When to go: Early morning or after five. Passeig de Gràcia bakes at midday, and the Boqueria is calmer before ten; the market is closed on Sundays.

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