You'll be amazed at the Crypt, where the Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí experimented with many architectural solutions before building the Sagrada Familia (World Heritage Site, 2005).

In addition to Gaudí's building, the Colonia Güell gives visitors the opportunity to: 

• Explore its streets while admiring the most important Catalan art-nouveau, or modernista buildings in the life of the village, which are of great architectural interest.
• Visit the Interpretation Centre inside the former workers' cooperative. The centre has a permanent exhibit that provides the keys to understanding the village as a whole and the church in particular.

The Colonia Güell has been declared a Property of Cultural Interest and is one of the largest industrial complexes in Catalonia. Here people worked and learned skills in a new integrated urban design that was innovative for its time.

The Colonia offers visitors a wide variety of tourist services including guided tours, audioguides, dramatised tours, etc. and other general services, including rest areas, car and bus parking, etc.

What does your booking include?: 

• General admission + Audioguide system: admission to the Gaudí Crypt + Interpretation Centre and guide and map to the Colonia Güell + audioguide system.
• General admission + Audioguide system + Transport: admission to the Gaudí Crypt + Interpretation Centre and guide and map to the Colonia Güell + audioguide system + Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Cataluña (Return ticket) .

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Very near the Sagrada Família, you'll find an art-nouveau gem, the Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau. Designed by the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, it was built between 1905 and 1930.

After housing the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (one of Europe's oldest healthcare centres) for more than eight decades, a restoration project commenced on the old pavilions in 2009. This process has restored the beauty of one of the iconic works of Catalonia's home-grown art nouveau, modernisme.

The tour begins in the exhibition space in the Sant Salvador Pavilion takes you on a journey throughthe history of medicine in Barcelona. The upper floor of the building concentrates particularly on the figure and work of Lluís Domènech i Montaner. Sant Salvador Pavilion marks the start of a recommended route around the outdoor spaces of the Art Nouveau Site that reproduce the garden city model designed in the early 20th century.
You can also enter the Sant Rafael Pavilion and see its interior, moreover, you can take the underground tunnels communicating the various buildings and visit the most representative heritage spaces of the Administration Pavilion.

What does your booking include?:

• Self-guided tour of the Sant Pau Recinte Modernista.

 

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Tucked away among the narrow streets in the northern end of the Ribera district, you'll find a unique modernista building, the Palau de la Música Catalana, which combines sculpture, mosaic, stained glass and wrought iron on its magnificent façade.

You can enter the building through the entrance adjacent to the foyer, a new area which provides a meeting place and is open to the public every day, or through the lobby which is flanked by two lamps characteristic of the Barcelona of the period, and is the former main entrance.
In the Orfeó Català's modernista rehearsal room, you'll be able to watch a 15-minute audiovisual about the history of the Palau de la Música Catalana and society in the early 20th century.
The main part of the building is the concert hall, with its harmonious proportions, sumptuous décor and vast central skylight which fills the space with light. You'll have the unique opportunity to walk on the stage and see the auditorium through the eyes of the performers.
To end your tour, you'll visit the Sala Lluís Millet, which is named after the founder of the Orfeó Català. Its huge stained glass window reveals the row of columns on the balcony of the façade.

What does your booking include?:
According to the chosen option: 

• Tour of the different areas inside the Palau de la Música Catalana.
• Tour of the different areas inside the Palau de la Música Catalana + 20-minute organ concert or similar.

 

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