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Travel guides, landmarks and museums in Barcelona: what to see and do.

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the Gothic gallery in the courtyard of Palau Aguilar, home of the Museu Picasso, with pointed arches on slender columns and an openwork stone parapet
Museums & masterpieces

Museu Picasso in Barcelona: the young Picasso, in five Gothic palaces on Carrer Montcada

9 min read
the white roof terraces of the Fundació Joan Miró with large curved concrete skylights and Barcelona in the background
Museums & masterpieces

Fundació Joan Miró: the white museum Miró wanted to be “a living place”, opened in Franco’s last year

8 min read
the Plaza Mayor of the Poble Espanyol with the stone town hall of Valderrobres, its arcades and street lamps, and an iron railing in the foreground
Monuments & landmarks

Poble Espanyol: the village of the 1929 Exhibition that was meant to be demolished

8 min read
the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion with its flat white roof, travertine walls, a slender steel pillar and a stone bench
Monuments & landmarks

Mies van der Rohe Pavilion: the 1929 building taken down after the Exhibition and rebuilt in 1986

7 min read
the stone façade of Palau Güell seen from below, with its two parabolic arched gateways, the coat of arms with the phoenix between them and the gallery above
Monuments & landmarks

Palau Güell: Gaudí’s palace with stables under the street and a starry sky over the hall

9 min read
the façade of Casa Vicens with its bands of green and white tiles, red brick and turrets, among the palms of the garden
Monuments & landmarks

Casa Vicens, Gaudí’s first house: yellow flowers, a dwarf palm and a Moorish smoking room

9 min read
the hall of the Palau de la Música Catalana seen from the stalls, with the organ, the stained-glass walls and the golden skylight in the ceiling
Monuments & landmarks

Palau de la Música Catalana: the glass concert hall a choir built for itself

9 min read
the Administration pavilion of Sant Pau lit up in the evening, with the clock tower and the entrance avenue
Monuments & landmarks

Sant Pau: the hospital Domènech i Montaner built like a city

10 min read
the undulating stone façade of La Pedrera lit up in the evening, with its wrought-iron balconies and the trees in front
Monuments & landmarks

La Pedrera: Gaudí’s house without a main staircase or load-bearing walls

11 min read
the façade of Casa Batlló covered in coloured fragments, with its white mask-shaped balconies and the scaly roof
Monuments & landmarks

Casa Batlló: Gaudí was meant to demolish it, and remade it from the inside instead

10 min read
the mosaic bench on the square of Park Güell, with the chequered tower of the entrance pavilion and Barcelona stretching down to the sea
Monuments & landmarks

Park Güell: the failed luxury estate that became Gaudí’s park

11 min read
the vault of the Sagrada Família seen from below, with the columns branching out and the golden skylights over the crossing
Monuments & landmarks

The Sagrada Família is not a church to look at: it is a machine for light

15 min read