Barcelona in 3 days: a Catalan city where Roman walls meet a 144-year-old church still being built, where beaches are 20 minutes from a medieval quarter and the morning market is the finest in the world.
The interior: hyperboloid tree-columns, floor-to-ceiling amber and blue stained glass, and Gaudí's complete vision finally realized. Book tower access weeks ahead.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideGaudí's dragon staircase, ceramic salamander and the longest mosaic bench in the world. City, sea and Montjuïc below.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideMedieval Barcelona on top of Roman Barcino: bullet-hole walls at Sant Felip Neri, the Gothic cathedral's geese cloister and El Born's pintxos.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuide300 stalls since 1217: the finest market in the Mediterranean, before the tourist wave hits at 10am.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideGaudí's most theatrical façade: skulls as balconies, a dragon's back as a roof, mosaics of 1,000 ceramic disc colours.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuide4.2km of city beach from the 1992 Olympics: the Frank Gehry fish sculpture at the Olympic Port, the sea at 22°C in summer.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe crispy caramelized bottom layer of the paella: the test of a great arrocería, directly on the port promenade.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuidePicasso's teenage Barcelona years (1895–1904) and the complete Las Meninas cubist series. Five medieval courtyards.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe midday aperitivo ritual: house vermouth, white anchovies, pan amb tomàquet and cold cava in a cellar bar.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideThe most important building in modern architecture history (1929, rebuilt 1986), plus the complete Joan Miró collection.
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