Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #11 in Barcelona, Spain
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14.7 km
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Experience Barcelona in Spain in a whole new way with our self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.
Activities in BarcelonaIndividual Sights in BarcelonaSight 1: Basilica of Our Lady of Mercy
The Basilica of Our Lady of Mercy is a Baroque-style basilica in Barcelona, Catalonia. Our Lady of Mercy has been the patron saint of the city of Barcelona since 1687.
Sight 2: Barcelona's Head
El Cap de Barcelona (1991–1992) is a surrealist sculpture created by American Pop artist Roy Lichtenstein for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Its English title is The Head of Barcelona.
Sight 3: Roman Wall
![Roman Wall](/static/images/wikipedia/Spain_Barcelona_Roman-Wall.jpg)
The Roman Wall of Barcelona is a work declared a Cultural Asset of National Interest. From Plaça Nova, it went along Avinguda de la Catedral, Carrer de la Tapineria and Carrer del Sotstinent Navarro, Plaça dels Traginers, and Carrer del Correo Vell, Carrer Regomir, Carrer Avinyó, Carrer Banys Nous, and Carrer de la Palla.
Sight 4: Centre Cívic Pati Llimona
The Palau Marc or Gualbes is a building in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona listed as a cultural asset of local interest. Since 1991, it has housed the facilities of the Pati Llimona Civic Centre, which has an exhibition hall, an archaeological space and several classrooms and rooms for workshops and conferences.
Sight 5: Font de les Tres Gràcies
The Font de les Tres Graces is located in the Plaza Real in Barcelona, in the district of Ciutat Vella. It was created in 1867 by Antoine Durenne on a design by Louis-Tullius-Joachim Visconti, and installed in 1876 with an architectural project by Antoni Rovira i Trias. This work is registered as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest (BCIL) in the Inventory of Catalan Cultural Heritage with the code 08019/646.
Sight 6: La Rambla
La Rambla is considered the most well known street in central Barcelona. A tree-lined pedestrian street, it stretches for 1.2 kilometres connecting the Plaça de Catalunya in its center with the Christopher Columbus Monument at Port Vell. La Rambla forms the boundary between the neighbourhoods of the Barri Gòtic to the east and the El Raval to the west.
Sight 7: Lletres gimnastes
Letters Gymnasts is a visual work created by the Catalan poet and plastic artist Joan Brossa i Cuervo in 1997. It was created for the El Ingenio store, at that time the oldest in its field in Barcelona, as a poem Corporate and to pay tribute and memory to Mr. Cardona, founder of the establishment.
Sight 8: Parròquia Basílica de Santa Maria del Pi
Santa Maria del Pi is a 15th-century Gothic church in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is situated on the Plaça del Pi, in the Barri Gòtic district of the city.
Sight 9: Joan Miró pavement mosaic
![Joan Miró pavement mosaic](/static/images/wikipedia/Spain_Barcelona_Joan-Miró-pavement-mosaic.jpg)
The Mosaic of the Pla de l'Os, also known as the Miró Pavement, is a 1976 work by Joan Miró that is located in the Pla de la Boqueria, on the Rambla de Barcelona, a natural path for those who come and go from the sea to the city. The work was inaugurated on December 30, 1976, and is included in the catalog Public Art of Barcelona. The mosaic was executed by Joan Gardy-Artigas, with the collaboration of the Escofet workshops, specialized in terrazzo pieces.
Sight 10: Sant Agustí
The convent of Sant Agustí Nou was a group of buildings belonging to the Augustinian order, of which some remains still remain, such as the old library, now a hotel, and the church, listed as a cultural asset of local interest.
Sight 11: Sant Llàtzer
The Hospital de Sant Llàtzer is an architectural complex in the Raval district of Barcelona, of which one of the wings has been preserved, listed as an asset with elements of interest, and the church, listed as a cultural asset of local interest.
Sight 12: Teatre del Raval
The Teatre del Raval is a theatrical space located within the premises of the Carme Church, on Carrer de Sant Antoni Abat, 12-16 in the Raval of Barcelona.
Sight 13: Cafè-Teatre el Llantiol
El Llantiol is an emblematic café-theatre with a modernist aesthetic located in the Raval district of Barcelona. In 1982 the hall was awarded the FAD Sebastià Gasch Prize for Paratheatrical Arts.
Sight 14: Jardins de Sant Pau del Camp
The gardens of Sant Pau del Camp are a one-hectare public space around the monastery of the same name, in the Raval district of Barcelona.
Sight 15: Teatre Arnau
The Arnau Theatre is a building located at Avinguda del Paral·lel, 60 in Barcelona, listed as an asset with elements of interest.
Sight 16: Barts
The Gran Teatre Espanyol is a theatre located at Avinguda del Paral·lel, 62 in the city of Barcelona. Between 1892 and 1980, it operated under different names, and also as a cinema and discotheque. It is currently the Paral·lel 62 space and is part of the municipal project Cases de Cultura de Barcelona.
Sight 17: Teatre Tantarantana
The Teatre Tantarantana is a performance hall in Barcelona opened in 1992 at no. 16 of the street of the same name, which in 1996 moved to its current location at Carrer de les Flors, 22 del Raval.
Sight 18: Museu de les Arts Escèniques
The Centre de Documentació i Museu de les Arts Escèniques, also known as MAE, is a centre for information and research on the performing arts in Catalonia, Spain. The centre has an extensive library, an archive and collections from the Institut del Teatre, which specializes in theatre, dance, opera, zarzuela, music hall, magic and circus performances. Its major collections encompass Catalonia and the Spanish Golden Age. The centre also has posters, programmes, photographs, pictures, puppet theatres, set designs and costumes which are exhibited in temporary exhibitions and online, since it has no permanent exhibition space. The museum is a member of SIBMAS and ENICPA, and is part of the ECLAP European Project. In Catalonia, it is involved with the Consortium of Academic Libraries of Catalonia.
Wikipedia: Centre de Documentació i Museu de les Arts Escèniques (EN), Website
Sight 19: Poble Espanyol
The Poble Espanyol is an open-air architectural museum in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, approximately 400 metres away from the Fountains of Montjuïc. Built for the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition, the museum consists of 117 full-scale buildings replicated from different places in the Iberian Peninsula, joined forming a small town recreating urban atmospheres of disparate places in Spain. It also contains a theater, restaurants, artisan workshops and a museum of contemporary art.
Sight 20: Font de Ceres
The Ceres Fountain is located in Plaça de Sant Jordi —also known as Mirador del Llobregat—, on Montjuïc Mountain, Barcelona. It was created in 1830 by Celdoni Guixà. This work is registered as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest (BCIL) in the Inventory of Catalan Cultural Heritage with the code 08019/1781.
Sight 21: Jardins de Ramon Aramon i Serra
The Ramon Aramon i Serra Gardens are a green area in the Hostafrancs district of Barcelona. It is the interior of the block bounded by the streets of Creu Coberta, Mir i Geribert, Cap de Guaita and Leiva.
Sight 22: Plaça d'Espanya
Plaça d'Espanya is one of Barcelona's most important squares, built on the occasion of the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition, held at the foot of Montjuïc, in the Sants-Montjuïc district.
Sight 23: Parc de Joan Miró
The Parc de Joan Miró, popularly known as the Parc de l'Escorxador, is located in the Nova Esquerra neighborhood of the Eixample of Barcelona, separated from the Plaza de España by the bullring of the Arenas. It is a work included in the Inventory of the Architectural Heritage of Catalonia.
Sight 24: Capella del Sant Crist de Sants
The Chapel of the Holy Christ is the oldest religious building in the Sants district of Barcelona. There are documents from 1694 that mention it within the land called pessa del Santo Christo owned by the nobleman Josep de Novell i Nadal.
Sight 25: Parròquia de Santa Maria de Sants
The church of Santa Maria de Sants is a Christian temple in neoclassical style dating from 1828. It is located in Plaça de Bonet i Muixí, in the Sants district of Barcelona, and had been the municipal parish of Santa Maria de Sants when the municipality had not yet been incorporated into that of Barcelona.
Sight 26: Sala FlyHard
Sala Flyhard is a small-format theater in the La Bordeta neighborhood of Barcelona born in 2010, focused on contemporary Catalan dramaturgy. Playwrights such as Jordi Casanovas, Clàudia Cedó and Marta Buchaca have passed through its stage, and works such as El rei borni by Marc Crehuet, A.K.A. by Daniel J. Meyer and Els dies mentits by Marta Aran have been successful.
Sight 27: Parc de la Font Florida
Font Florida Park is located next to Montjuïc Mountain, near the Zona Franca, in the Sants-Montjuïc district of the city of Barcelona. It was created in 1995 with a project by Carles Casamor, Ramon Marquès and Carles Fuentes.
Sight 28: Castell de Bellvís
Bellvís Castle or Torrassa is a monument and archaeological site protected as a cultural asset of national interest in the municipality of L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelonès).
Sight 29: Mare de Déu dels Desemparats
The Virgin of the Forsaken is the parish church of the Torrassa neighbourhood in the city of L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona), protected as a cultural asset of local interest. The parish church, dedicated to the Virgin of the Forsaken, was built by Manuel Puig Janer between 1942 and 1949. There used to be a temporary temple, the work of the architect Josep Maria Sagnier i Vidal in 1935, which was burned down at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. The bishop of Barcelona, Gregorio Modrego, blessed the new temple on April 24, 1949, although the work was not definitively finished until 1951 with the erection of the bell tower.
Wikipedia: Mare de Déu dels Desemparats (l'Hospitalet de Llobregat) (CA)
Sight 30: Santa Eulàlia de Provençana
![Santa Eulàlia de Provençana](/static/images/wikipedia/Spain_Barcelona_Santa-Eulàlia-de-Provençana.jpg)
Santa Eulàlia de Provençana is a Romanesque church in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona), protected as a cultural asset of local interest.
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