Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Barcelona, Spain

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Number of sights 30 sights
Distance 10.9 km
Ascend 234 m
Descend 194 m

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 Barcelona

Sight 1: Casa dels Lleons

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Casa dels Lleons

The House of the Lions is a neo-Mudejar style building located in the Parc de la Ciutadella in Barcelona, protected as an asset with elements of interest.

Wikipedia: Casa dels Lleons (CA)

905 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 2: Monument a Rius i Taulet

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Monument a Rius i Taulet Josep Renalias / CC BY-SA 3.0

The monument to Rius i Taulet is located on Passeig de Lluís Companys in Barcelona. It was built between 1897 and 1901 and is dedicated to the mayor of Barcelona during the 1888 Exposition, Francesc de Paula Rius i Taulet.

Wikipedia: Monument a Rius i Taulet (CA)

176 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 3: Castle of the Three Dragons

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The Castle of the Three Dragons, is the popular name given to the modernisme building built between 1887 and 1888 as a Café-Restaurant for the 1888 Universal Exposition of Barcelona by Lluís Domènech i Montaner. This name was probably adopted from the 1865 play by Serafí Pitarra.

Wikipedia: Castle of the Three Dragons (EN)

310 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 4: El Born Centre de Cultura i Memòria

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Mercat del Born is a former public market and one of the most important buildings in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain constructed with iron. Located in the lower and eastern side of the la Ribera neighborhood, it is the largest covered square in all of Europe and marked the start of Modernisme in Catalan architecture.

Wikipedia: Mercat del Born (EN), Website

268 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 5: les formigues

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The Ants is a mural based on the calligram of the same name by Joan Salvat-Papasseit, located in the party wall of the plot of Passeig del Born, 25, on the corner of Carrer del Rec Comtal, in the La Ribera district of Barcelona.

Wikipedia: Les formigues (CA)

269 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Museu de la Xocolata

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Museu de la Xocolata or Museo del Chocolate in Spanish, is a private museum in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, owned by the Gremio de Pastelería de Barcelona.

Wikipedia: Museu de la Xocolata (EN), Website

179 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 7: La Puntual

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La Puntual Josep Renalias / CC BY-SA 3.0

La Puntual is a theatre, located at Carrer d'Allada-Vermell, 15 in Barcelona, specialising in puppet, puppet and shadow puppet theatre.

Wikipedia: La Puntual (CA), Website

278 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 8: Picasso Museum

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The Museu Picasso is an art museum in Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain. It houses an extensive collection of artworks by the twentieth-century Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, with a total of 4251 of his works. It is housed in five adjoining medieval palaces on Montcada Street in the La Ribera neighborhood in the Old City of Barcelona. It opened to the public on 9 March 1963, becoming the first museum dedicated to Picasso's work and the only one created during his lifetime. It has since been declared a museum of national interest by the Government of Catalonia.

Wikipedia: Museu Picasso (EN)

6 meters / 0 minutes

Sight 9: Museu de Cultures del Món

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Museu de Cultures del Món

The Museum of World Cultures was a museum specialising in the history of various cultures from around the world that occupies the Palau Nadal, former headquarters of the Barbier-Mueller Museum of Pre-Columbian Art in Barcelona, as well as the Palau del Marquès de Llo, former headquarters of the Design Museum, at Carrer de Montcada, 12 and 14 in Barcelona. The cost of the adaptation works was 4,195,000 euros. and the project was commissioned to the architects Tomàs Morató and Jaume Arderiu.

Wikipedia: Museu de Cultures del Món (CA), Website

188 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 10: Fossar de les Moreres

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The Fossar de les Moreres is a memorial square in Barcelona, adjacent to the basilica of Santa Maria del Mar. The plaza was built over a cemetery where defenders of the city were buried following the Siege of Barcelona at the end of the War of the Spanish Succession in 1714. The plaza features a memorial to the fallen Catalans of the war, with a torch of eternal flame and a heroic poem by Frederic Soler, "El Fossar de les Moreres".

Wikipedia: Fossar de les Moreres (EN)

479 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 11: Chapel of Santa Àgata

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Chapel of Santa Àgata Josep Renalias / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Chapel of Santa Àgata is a chapel located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is also as the Royal Chapel. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1866.

Wikipedia: Chapel of Santa Àgata (EN)

163 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 12: Topos V

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Topos V

Topos V, or simply Topos, is a sculpture by the Basque artist Eduardo Chillida, standing at Plaça del Rei in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona.

Wikipedia: Topos V (EN)

103 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 13: Museu Frederic Marès

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The Museu Frederic Marès is an art and sculpture museum in the Palau Reial Major in Barcelona, Spain.

Wikipedia: Museu Frederic Marès (EN), Website

315 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 14: El món neix en cada besada

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The world is born in every kiss is a photomosaic located in Plaça d'Isidre Nonell, in the Ciutat Vella district of Barcelona. It was taken by the photographer Joan Fontcuberta and the ceramist Toni Cumella in 2014.

Wikipedia: El món neix en cada besada (CA)

476 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 15: Escola Cervantes

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Escola Cervantes

The Palau Dou is a building located between the streets of Sant Pere Més Baix and Mitjà in Barcelona, listed as an asset with elements of interest. It currently houses the Cervantes School.

Wikipedia: Palau Dou (CA)

217 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 16: Carmela

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Carmela is a sculpture by Jaume Plensa, located in front of the Palau de la Música Catalana, on Carrer de Sant Pere Més Alt in Barcelona.

Wikipedia: Carmela (CA)

279 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 17: Teatre Borràs

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Teatre Borràs

The Borràs Theatre is a theatre, formerly a cinema, located at Plaça d'Urquinaona, 9 in Barcelona. It belongs to the Balañà Group.

Wikipedia: Teatre Borràs (CA)

441 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 18: Monument to Francesc Macià

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The Monument to Francesc Macià is a sculpture located at the southern end of Plaça de Catalunya in Barcelona, in front of La Rambla, the work of Josep Maria Subirachs and inaugurated on 25 December 1991.

Wikipedia: Monument a Francesc Macià (CA)

391 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 19: La Rambla

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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.

Wikipedia: La Rambla, Barcelona (EN)

212 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 20: Poliorama

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Poliorama Sergi Larripa (User:SergiL) / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Poliorama Theater is a theater, former cinema, located on the ground floor of the building of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona, at Rambla, 115. Opened in 1899 as a cinema, it later alternated its use with theatrical performances. It has been operating since 1976 as a theatre. Between 1937 and 1939 it was called the Teatre Català de la Comèdia.

Wikipedia: Teatre Poliorama (CA)

544 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 21: Sant Pere Nolasc

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Sant Pere Nolasc

The Church of Sant Pere Nolasc, formerly of Sant Sever and Sant Carles Borromeu, is a building located in Plaça de Castella in the Raval district of Barcelona, listed as a cultural asset of local interest. It is the only part that remains of the old convent of the Pauls, called Casa de Sant Sever.

Wikipedia: Església de Sant Pere Nolasc (Barcelona) (CA)

212 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 22: Teatre Goya

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The Goya Theatre is a performance hall in Barcelona, located in the Centre Aragonès building.

Wikipedia: Teatre Goya (Barcelona) (CA)

207 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 23: Pati Manning

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The Casa de la Caritat is a group of buildings in the Raval district of Barcelona, listed as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest. It currently houses a cultural complex made up of several institutions, such as the Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, in the Pati de les Dones, and the Centre for Cultural Studies and Resources (CERC) of the Barcelona Provincial Council, in the Pati Manning, and the Blanquerna Faculty of Communication and International Relations of the Ramon Llull University.

Wikipedia: Casa de la Caritat de Barcelona (CA)

262 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 24: Barcelona, mural G-333

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Mural G-333 is a mural made by Chillida and located in the Raval district of Barcelona, in front of the MACBA. In fact, it is part of his public art collection. It was carried out in 1998, three years after the inauguration of the building that houses MACBA and four years before his death.

Wikipedia: Mural G-333 (CA)

552 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 25: Teatre del Raval

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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.

Wikipedia: Teatre del Raval (CA), Website

1867 meters / 22 minutes

Sight 26: Jardins de Ramon Aramon i Serra

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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.

Wikipedia: Jardins de Ramon Aramon i Serra (CA)

694 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 27: The Dragon

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The Dragon is an iron sculpture located in the Parc de l'Espanya Industrial, in front of the Plaça dels Països Catalans, in the Sants district of Barcelona. The work of the San Sebastian sculptor Andrés Nagel, it was inaugurated on Sant Jordi's Day in 1987. It represents the figure of a dragon coming out of the lake. Made of corten steel, it weighs 150 tons, and is 12 meters high by 38 meters long. What represents the tail of the animal is an 18-meter-long slide, where young and old play. The sculpture has 3 other slides and a maze that joins them.

Wikipedia: El Drac (CA)

213 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 28: Parc de l'Espanya Industrial

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Parc de l'Espanya Industrial

The Espanya Industrial Park is located between the Sants and Hostafrancs districts of Barcelona, next to the Barcelona-Sants railway station. It retains some of the old facilities of the factory that gives it its name: the Casinet d'Hostafrancs civic centre, the Pau nursery school and the Casa del Mig, where municipal facilities are located.

Wikipedia: Parc de l'Espanya Industrial (CA)

532 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 29: Capella del Sant Crist de Sants

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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.

Wikipedia: Capella del Sant Crist de Sants (CA)

210 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 30: Parròquia de Santa Maria de Sants

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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.

Wikipedia: Església de Santa Maria de Sants (CA)

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