Explorer Santa Coloma de Cervelló

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Park Güell is a hillside park in the Gràcia district, designed by Antoni Gaudí for Eusebi Güell and built between 1900 and 1914 as a planned garden estate; it opened as a public park in 1926. The ticketed monumental zone holds the two entrance pavilions, the dragon stairway, the Hypostyle Room and the great terrace edged by a serpentine bench in tile mosaic.

Gaudí Experiència is an exhibition centre about the architect Antoni Gaudí on Carrer de Larrard, about 100 metres from Park Güell, opened in 2012. A ten-minute 4D film is the centrepiece, alongside large touchscreen walls on his life and work and models of Park Güell and the unbuilt Hotel Attraction in New York.

Casa Milà, known as La Pedrera, is an apartment building on Passeig de Gràcia designed by Antoni Gaudí and built between 1906 and 1912 for Pere Milà and Roser Segimon. It has a self-supporting undulating stone facade with wrought-iron balconies, and visitors see its courtyards, the attic and the roof terrace with sculpted chimneys.