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RCDE Stadium is the home ground of RCD Espanyol, on the boundary between Cornellà de Llobregat and El Prat de Llobregat. Designed by Mark Fenwick and Esteve Gasulla, it opened on 2 August 2009 with about 40,000 seats under a roof fitted with solar panels. The guided tour visits the players' tunnel, the stands and the Ricardo Zamora history room with the club's trophies.

Colònia Güell is a former textile company town founded in 1890 by Eusebi Güell in Santa Coloma de Cervelló, laid out with houses, a school and services by Gaudí's collaborators. Gaudí designed its church, but only the crypt was built, between 1908 and 1914; it has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2005 and is the centre of the visit, with a permanent exhibition.

The Estrella Damm brewery in El Prat de Llobregat, near Barcelona airport, is one of the Damm group's production plants. Scheduled guided tours explain how the beer is brewed, following the recipe August K. Damm used in 1876, and end with a tasting of Estrella and other beers of the group.

Camp Nou is the stadium of FC Barcelona in the Les Corts district, opened in 1957 and the largest football ground in Europe. Since 2023 it has been rebuilt and enlarged towards about 105,000 seats, and matches returned in November 2025 with part of the stands open. The club museum, opened in 1984, shows trophies and club history, and its tickets include a stadium viewpoint.

Poble Espanyol is an open-air architectural museum on Montjuïc, built for the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition. Its 117 full-scale buildings reproduce streets, squares and houses from regions across Spain, and now hold artisan workshops, restaurants and the Fran Daurel museum of contemporary art.

The Barcelona Pavilion is a reconstruction of the German Pavilion that Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich designed for the 1929 International Exposition on Montjuïc. The original was demolished in 1930 and rebuilt in 1986; its thin flat roof, walls of marble, onyx and travertine, and shallow pools are shown with the Barcelona chairs designed for it.

Plaça d'Espanya is a large circular square at the foot of Montjuïc, laid out for the 1929 International Exposition. Its centre holds a fountain designed by Josep Maria Jujol with sculptures by Miquel Blay, and two 47-metre Venetian Towers mark the avenue leading up to the Palau Nacional. The former Arenas bullring stands on its north side.

The Magic Fountain of Montjuïc is an illuminated fountain designed by Carles Buïgas for the 1929 International Exposition, at the head of Avinguda de la Reina Maria Cristina below the Palau Nacional. On set evenings it stages shows of water jets, coloured light and music, pumping about 2,600 litres of water a second through three concentric basins.

The Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya occupies the Palau Nacional on Montjuïc, a domed palace built for the 1929 International Exhibition. Its collection runs from Romanesque wall paintings taken from Pyrenean churches through Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque art to Catalan modernisme and noucentisme of the early 20th century.

Catalunya en Miniatura is a miniature park opened in 1983 in Torrelles de Llobregat, about 17 km from Barcelona. Across some 60,000 m² of gardens it displays around 150 scale models of buildings from Catalonia and Mallorca, among them Gaudí's major works, Montserrat and the Camp Nou, and it also has a rope and zip-line adventure course.

The Joan Antoni Samaranch Olympic and Sport Museum opened in 2007 on Montjuïc, opposite the Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium, and took its present name in 2010. Run by the Barcelona Olympic Foundation, it covers the Olympic Games and the 1992 Barcelona Games, sport in different civilisations and disability sport, with interactive multimedia displays.

The Fundació Joan Miró is a museum of modern art on Montjuïc, created by Joan Miró and opened in 1975 in a white building with courtyards and roof terraces designed by his friend Josep Lluís Sert. It holds a large collection of Miró's paintings, sculptures, tapestries and drawings, and its Espai 13 shows work by young artists.

Bellesguard is a modernist country house in Sant Gervasi, designed by Antoni Gaudí and built between 1900 and 1909 on the site of a residence of King Martin of Aragon. Its stone walls, battlements and slender spire topped by a cross recall medieval Gothic forms, with mosaics by Domènec Sugrañes, and a garden with remains of the royal residence surrounds it.

The Montjuïc Cable Car is a gondola lift that climbs Montjuïc from the upper station of the funicular to a terminal beside Montjuïc Castle. Opened in 1970 and rebuilt with closed cabins in 2007, the 752-metre line rises about 85 metres above its lower station and looks out over the port and the city.

Montjuïc Castle is a military fortress on the summit of Montjuïc hill, above the port. A first fort was raised in 1640, and the present castle with its moat and bastions took shape between 1751 and 1799 under the engineer Juan Martín Cermeño. Now run by the city, it has exhibitions on its history and walls with views over Barcelona and the sea.

Casa Rocamora is a two-storey Isabelline-style villa from the mid-19th century in the Putxet district, home of the collector Manuel Rocamora from 1935 until his death in 1976. Kept by the foundation he inspired, it shows his collections of painting, Alcora ceramics, ship figureheads, automata and advertising posters on guided tours.

Tibidabo Amusement Park sits on the summit of Tibidabo, the highest point of the Collserola ridge above Barcelona; its funicular opened in 1901 and the first rides followed in 1905. Several early rides still run, among them the Avió aeroplane and the Talaia, alongside a Ferris wheel and roller coasters with views over the city and the sea.

Casa Vicens in Gràcia is Antoni Gaudí's first major house, built between 1883 and 1885 as a summer residence for the stockbroker Manuel Vicens. Its walls of rough stone and brick are banded with green and white tiles in a Neo-Mudéjar style; the restored rooms, garden and roof terrace are open as a museum, part of a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2005.

The Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) stands on Plaça dels Àngels in El Raval, in a white building with a long glass front designed by the American architect Richard Meier and opened in 1995. Its galleries show the museum's collection of art from the mid-20th century onwards alongside changing temporary exhibitions.

The Port Vell Aerial Tramway is a cable car that crosses Barcelona's old harbour, linking the Torre de Sant Sebastià in Barceloneta with the Miramar station on Montjuïc by way of the Torre de Jaume I beside the World Trade Center. Built for the 1929 International Exposition and opened in 1931, it covers about 1.3 km in cabins for up to 24 people.