Barcelona, cities into the city. History
The city of Barcelona offers the visitor a rich and eclectic architecture. Here you can read a brief general description of the main periods of history that have clearly influenced its architecture and structure. You will also find a list of the most important buildings and monuments. When you visit Barcelona, you will discover buildings of less known or even unknown architects that will also surprise you.
Emblematic buildings and monuments of Barcelona
- Modernist buildings & monumentsEixample Sagrada Familia
The Basilica of the Sagrada Familia is the most famous work of Antoni Gaudí (Reus, 1852 - Barcelona, 1926) and
- Modernist buildings & monumentsEixample Dreta
The Casa Milà, known as La Pedrera, is a modernist building that was designed by the architect Antoni Gau
- Modernist buildings & monumentsEixample Esquerra
This building built between 1904 and 1906 is a fantastic combination of colors and forms located on Passeig de Gràcia of Barcelona
- Modernist buildings & monumentsGràcia
The Park Güell (1900-1905), initially conceived as an English-style garden city, is perhaps the most unique of the many works that Eusebi G
- Medieval buildings & monumentsCiutat Vella - Barri Gòtic
The Cathedral of Santa Creu and Santa Eulàlia of Barcelona was built between the years 1317-1441 on the old Romanesque cathedral,
- Modernist buildings & monumentsCiutat Vella - La Ribera / Born
The Palau de la Música Catalana, in addition to being an authentic palace of music, is a modernist building of great beauty for its ceramic
- Modernist buildings & monumentsEixample Dreta
The Sant Pau Art Nouveau Site by the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner housed a hospital until 2009: the Hospit
- Medieval buildings & monumentsCiutat Vella - La Ribera / Born
The exterior of the Basilica of Santa Maria del Mar (1329-1383) offers a compact look that does not convey what we will find insid
- Modernist buildings & monumentsEixample Dreta
The Casa Terrades, better known as the Casa de les Punxes, was designed by the modernist architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch<
- Other buildings and emblematic monumentsSants Montjuïc
The Poble Espanyol is an open-air museum that was built in 1929 on the occasion of the Barcelona International Exhibition.
- Modernist buildings & monumentsEixample Dreta
Casa Lleó i Morera (1905), located in the famous block of discord named for the controversy that arose when five buildings of very
- Modernist buildings & monumentsEixample Dreta
- New symbols of the citySant Martí
The Glòries Tower, former Agbar Tower, is the third tallest building in Barcelona with 142 meters and 34 floors,
- Modernist buildings & monumentsGràcia
The Casa Vicens (1883-1888), a private house, was built between 1883 and 1888 for the ceramics industrialist Manuel Vicens i Monta
- Other buildings and emblematic monumentsCiutat Vella - El Raval
Columbus monument was inaugurated in 1888 on the occasion of the Universal Exposition, in homage to the discoverer Christopher Col
- Medieval buildings & monumentsCiutat Vella - Barri Gòtic
Next to the Roman city wall is the entrance to the house of the Archdeacon (Casa del Arcediano) from the XII.
- Other buildings and emblematic monumentsCiutat Vella - El Raval
The Gran Teatro del Liceo in Barcelona, dating from 1847, is located on the Ramblas, and regarded as an institution in the city fo
- Medieval buildings & monumentsCiutat Vella - Barri Gòtic
A Jewish community lived in the El Call quarter between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries.
- Medieval buildings & monumentsCiutat Vella - Barri Gòtic
There are some indications that the origins of the Basilica of Santa María del Pi are in the 5th century.
- Modernist buildings & monumentsCiutat Vella - Barri Gòtic
Els Quatre Gats ist a bar and restaurant (1895-1896) designed by the modernist architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch a
- Other buildings and emblematic monumentsPoblenou
The Water Tower del Besos was built in the 1880s funded by industrialist Xavier Camps and with the project by the architect
- Modernist buildings & monumentsCiutat Vella - La Ribera / Born
The Castell dels Tres Dragons (Castle of the Three Dragons), created by the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner,
- Modernist buildings & monumentsEixample Dreta
The Palau del Baró de Quadras as we know it today, was created from a great renovation of a previous building.
- Modernist buildings & monumentsEixample Dreta
Elegant mansion (1901) with a large patio, designed by the architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch.
- Medieval buildings & monumentsCiutat Vella - La Ribera / Born
La Llotja de Barcelona (Stock Exchange) is one of the most unknown treasures of Barcelona's civil Gothic.
- Modernist buildings & monumentsCiutat Vella - El Raval
The Palau Güell, an urban residence built between 1886 and 1890 for the family of Eusebi Güell Bacigalupi
- Medieval buildings & monumentsCiutat Vella - Barri Gòtic
This magnificent hall with solid columns (1359-1370), where they say that Isabel and Fernando received Christopher Columbu
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