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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.

The Palau de la Música Catalana is a concert hall in the Sant Pere quarter, designed by Lluís Domènech i Montaner and built between 1905 and 1908 for the choral society Orfeó Català. Its brick facade carries mosaic-clad columns and sculpture, and the auditorium is lit by a stained-glass skylight; guided visits run by day and concerts in the evening.

The Museum of the History of Barcelona, MUHBA, traces the city from Roman Barcino to the present. Its main site on Plaça del Rei, opened in 1943, leads underground through excavated streets and workshops of the Roman town and up into the medieval royal palace with the Saló del Tinell and the Chapel of Santa Àgata.

The European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM) is a private museum of contemporary figurative art in the Palau Gomis, a palace near the Museu Picasso in the La Ribera district that was rebuilt in 1792 for the textile merchant Gomis. Opened in 2011 by the Fundación de las Artes y los Artistas, it shows 20th-century sculpture and 21st-century figurative painting and sculpture.

Aquarium Barcelona is a public aquarium on the Moll d'Espanya in Port Vell, the old harbour, opened in 1995. Its tanks hold some 11,000 animals with a focus on Mediterranean sea life, and the large oceanarium for sharks and rays is crossed by an 80-metre underwater tunnel.

The Museu Picasso holds more than 4,000 works by Pablo Picasso in five adjoining medieval palaces on Carrer de Montcada in the La Ribera district. Opened in 1963 as the first museum devoted to his work, it focuses on his formative years and his ties to Barcelona, with early paintings such as The First Communion (1896) and Science and Charity (1897).

Palau Dalmases is a noble town house on Carrer de Montcada in La Ribera, rebuilt from 1698 for the merchant Pau Dalmases after the siege of 1697 left it in ruins. Its courtyard keeps a Baroque open staircase with Solomonic columns and a carved frieze of the Rape of Europa and Neptune's chariot. The house now hosts flamenco shows several times a day.

Santa Maria del Mar is a Catalan Gothic church in the Ribera district, built between 1329 and 1383 with the support of the neighbourhood's guilds to a design by Berenguer de Montagut. The cultural visit adds the crypt, the gallery museum, the towers and the roof terraces to the wide, three-aisled interior.

The Museu de la Xocolata is a museum of chocolate run by the Barcelona pastry makers' guild, opened in 2000 on the ground floor of the former Sant Agustí convent and barracks in El Born. It traces the history of cocoa and chocolate and shows chocolate sculptures of Barcelona buildings and characters from stories, and runs workshops for visitors.

Altamar is a restaurant at the top of the Torre de Sant Sebastià, the 78-metre steel tower from 1931 that serves as the Barceloneta terminal of the Port Vell cable car. The dining room sits about 75 metres above the harbour, with views over the port and the city, and serves Mediterranean cooking à la carte or as a tasting menu.

The Museum of the History of Catalonia opened in 1996 in the Palau de Mar, a 19th-century brick warehouse on the Port Vell and the last building left from Barcelona's old industrial port. Its permanent exhibition on the second and third floors traces Catalan history from prehistory to the present, with temporary exhibitions on the first floor.

The Arc de Triomf is a red-brick memorial arch in the Neo-Mudéjar style, designed by Josep Vilaseca i Casanovas as the main entrance to the 1888 Barcelona World Fair. It spans the promenade of Passeig de Lluís Companys, which leads to Parc de la Ciutadella, and its front frieze carries Josep Reynés's relief Barcelona Welcomes the Nations.

The Sagrada Família is a Catholic basilica in Barcelona's Eixample, begun in 1882 and led from 1883 by Antoni Gaudí, who worked on it until his death in 1926 and is buried in its crypt. Its central Tower of Jesus Christ, completed in 2026, is 172.5 metres high. Visitors see the Nativity and Passion façades and the tree-like columns of the nave.

Parc de la Ciutadella is a 31-hectare park on the edge of the Ciutat Vella, laid out from 1872 to plans by Josep Fontserè on the site of an 18th-century military citadel and later used for the 1888 World Fair. It contains a boating lake, the monumental Cascada fountain, the Parliament of Catalonia, Barcelona Zoo and several 19th-century buildings.

Barcelona Zoo occupies the eastern part of the Parc de la Ciutadella and opened in 1892. Its grounds include a terrarium from 1972, an aviary with about 70 bird species and a Sahel savannah area built in 2018 for giraffes, lions and elephants; it was long the home of Snowflake, an albino gorilla who died in 2003.

Sant Pau Recinte Modernista is the former Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, a complex built between 1901 and 1930 to designs by Lluís Domènech i Montaner. Its 12 pavilions, linked by underground galleries and set among gardens, served as a hospital until 2009, reopened after restoration in 2014 and form part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Torre Glòries, formerly Torre Agbar, is a 38-storey office tower of 144 metres on Avinguda Diagonal, designed by Jean Nouvel and opened in 2005. Its rounded body is wrapped in coloured panels behind glass louvres. The Mirador on the top floor, 125 metres up, gives a 360-degree view over the city, and its dome holds the climbable installation Cloud Cities Barcelona.

Cal Gerrer is a house museum in the former Arpí ceramics factory, a mid-19th-century building beside the Monastery of Sant Cugat whose façade is decorated with pieces made on site. The Cabanas Foundation restored it between 2006 and 2015; it shows Arpí pottery, works by the Cabanas-Alibau brothers, a Marilyn Monroe collection and a roof terrace.

The Comic and Illustration Museum opened in 2019 in a three-storey mid-19th-century building on Plaça de Pep Ventura that once housed the Ateneu de Sant Cugat. Founded privately by the collectors José Luis Villanueva and Paco Baena, it traces Spanish comics from 1865 to 2000 through magazines, original pages and illustrations.

The Monastery of Sant Cugat is a former Benedictine abbey that grew up around the tomb of the martyr Cucuphas and became the leading monastery of the county of Barcelona. Its church and large Romanesque cloister were built between the mid-12th century and 1337; the cloister and the monastery museum are run by the Museu de Sant Cugat.