Tour details
Meeting Point
When: Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 10 am from September. You can choose to do the morning tour at 10 AM or afternoon at 3:15 pm.
The tour will start from plaça Catalunya, in front of Hotel Olivia Plaza. Please arrive 15 minutes before departure time. Look for the guide with the orange umbrella!
Ask for your quote
Guide, transport and entrance fee to Sagrada Família (worth 18€).
In your language
English. This tours is also available in French from 2021
Itinerary
Plaça Catalunya > Passeig de Gràcia > drive past the façades of Casa Batlló and La Pedrera > Eixample > Sagrada Família guided visit + free time > Plaça Catalunya.
What can Barcelona Experts offer you?
Why do our customers book this tour?
- Fast track entrance to the Sagrada Família.
- The tour is in your language.
- Sagrada Família has so much that without a Licensed guide at the end of a visit you will left with many questions.
Please note
- This tour involves some walking.
- Dress code inside the temple:For safety, no hats are allowed inside the nave or the museum except for religious, health or belief-related reasons. Visitors may not enter barefoot.As it is a Catholic church, visitors must dress appropriately, following these restrictions:
- No see-through clothing
- Tops must cover the shoulders
- No plunging necklines or exposed backs or bellies
- Shorts and skirts must come down to at least mid-thigh
- Visitors will not be allowed to enter with special clothing to celebrate any sort of festivities, nor with any decorations designed to distract or draw attention for artistic, religious, promotional or any other purposes.
What to expect
Antoni Gaudí was a visionary architect during Barcelona’s modernist period early 1900. He graced Barcelona with nearly all its extraordinary buildings. No less than 7 have been listed as World Heritage Sites by UNESCO, including Sagrada Família and Casa Batlló.
Open your eyes, heart and mind – wonder at how Gaudí used nature as his source of inspiration, you will find that what seems like chaos is actually based in sophisticated mathematics. Each detail is full of surprises waiting to be discovered.
You will drive too along Passeig de Gràcia, a broad elegant avenue that was built for and by the wealthy Barcelonians and they have never left; luxury and design shops line the street along with major banks and the stock exchange. Architectural details include modernist lampposts and Gaudí’s tiles for the pavement and a myriad of grand buildings:
- La Pedrera, Casa Milà. Check out the wavy façade with its extraordinary balconies, and don’t miss the top with the weird chimneys that resemble soldiers looking out for the residents.
- Casa Batlló. Casa Batlló is not just a building but an artistic legend. There are so many stories about the Casa Batlló! From the exceptional façade that reflects a tranquil sea to the battle between Saint George and the dragon,
- The block of discord. Passeig de Gràcia was where the main architects from the modernist style had the chance to show their best: Gaudí with Casa Batlló, Domènech i Montaner with Casa Lleó Morera and Puig i Cadafalch with Casa Amatller.
The jewel in the crown of Gaudí’s works, the temple is a synthesis of his overall conception of architecture. The richness of detail and its significance need explaining in order to appreciate this fascinating and extraordinary building in full.
Gaudí wished the temple, which is still being built, to be financed by the people, not by taxes or funding, and that’s just what your entrance fees do: finance the completion of the building started in 1882.
- Outside. Each facade tells a period of the life of Jesus. You will walk in through the Birth Façade – look closely, the whole nativity is represented there. At the other side of the basilica is the Passion Façade, representing the stages before Jesus died.
- The basilica. There are no words to describe the first time you enter the Sagrada Família. The curved columns resembling trees, the light that dances and plays across the hall in a constant change of colors. Just wait and see!
- Museum. The studio workshop is essential to understand how Gaudí worked and thought. The models he used are beyond anyone’s imagination.
