Barcelona — Sights
Gaudí's curves on one street, the Mediterranean at the end of it.
- Sagrada Família — Gaudí's 140-year building site, now topped by its tallest tower
- Park Güell — A tiled lizard, a snaking bench and the whole city below
- Casa Batlló — Skull balconies, a dragon-scale roof and a stairwell like the seabed
- Casa Milà (La Pedrera) — Wave-like stone walls and a roof of helmeted chimneys
- Gothic Quarter & Barcelona Cathedral — Lanes on Roman walls, a bishop’s bridge and a cloister full of geese
- La Rambla & La Boqueria — A tree-lined boulevard and a market of ham legs and fruit juice
- Montjuïc & the Magic Fountain — A musical fountain seen from the palace steps, Plaça d’Espanya beyond
- Bunkers del Carmel — A civil-war gun battery turned free 360-degree viewpoint
- Museu Picasso — Young Picasso, hung across five medieval mansions
- Barceloneta Beach — A Mediterranean beach a metro ride from the centre
- Palau de la Música Catalana — A concert hall with a stained-glass sun in the ceiling
- Spotify Camp Nou & Barça Museum — Endless trophy cabinets and a stadium mid-rebuild
- Montserrat — A monastery on a saw-toothed mountain, and its Black Madonna
- El Born & Santa Maria del Mar — The sailors' church, then lanes of bakeries, bars and boutiques
- Tibidabo — A 125-year-old hilltop funfair and church, with the city at your feet
- Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau — Tiled Art Nouveau hospital, far quieter
- Casa Vicens — Gaudí's first house, all tiles and Moorish flair
- Palau Güell — Gaudí's city mansion with a rooftop chimney forest
- Parc de la Ciutadella — City park with a fountain waterfall and rowing lake
- MNAC (National Art Museum of Catalonia) — Hilltop palace with Romanesque frescoes and a roof view
- Fundació Joan Miró — The biggest Miró collection, in a white hilltop gallery
- Casa de les Punxes — A fairy-tale castle with six pointed towers
- Museu Marítim de Barcelona — A full-size galley under medieval shipyard arches
- Colònia Güell Crypt — The unfinished chapel where Gaudí tested his ideas