La Pedrera in Barcelona Tickets and Tours

La Pedrera is the name by which Casa Milà is popularly known, a building with which Gaudí demonstrates his inexhaustible creativity by drawing inspiration from the forms of nature. Casa Milà is a visual spectacle, inside and out.

As it complements Gaudí's other works, a visit to Casa Milà is a must if you're passionate about the Catalan architect's creations: read on and I'll tell you everything you need to know to enjoy it like a local.

With this skip-the-line ticket to La Pedrera, you can skip the queues at the ticket office and explore the whole of Casa Milà accompanied by an audio guide who will tell you all the details about every corner of the building.

La Pedrera offers you a glimpse of a turn-of-the-century bourgeois residence, with elegantly decorated corridors, murals, and mosaics in Gaudí's representative style. You can even explore one of the flats, furnished in a recreation of the typical dwelling of the wealthy families of the time.

You can climb to the top floor of the building and, as well as marvelling at the impressive spiral-shaped chimneys, you can explore the Espai Gaudí, a museum where you can delve into the architect's mind and see the plans and models of his most iconic works. After the audio-guided tour, which lasts about an hour and a half, you can continue exploring the building on your own.

• Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
• Recommended: If you want to visit La Pedrera on your own but still have a narration to give you a context for what you are seeing.

The La Pedrera night experience is perfect for an alternative visit to this emblematic building, offering you the chance to tour it as you would on a conventional visit but enjoying a light show and projections on the rooftop that turn the shapes of the chimneys into surreal objects.

Another advantage of this option is to have a beautiful view of Barcelona lit up at night, and it really is a great idea if you are visiting the city in summer and want to save the heat of the day for your visit to La Pedrera. At the end of the tour, you'll be served a glass of cava to enjoy the views and the inner courtyard of the building for a little extra.

• Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
• Recommended: If you're coming to Barcelona in summer or you've already visited La Pedrera on another occasion and want to explore it in a different way.

Like the other tours, this is an hour and a half tour of La Pedrera with the particularity that it allows you to tour the building first thing in the morning (8:00) before the rest of the tourists enter. In addition, the group for this tour is small which means that there will be a maximum of 15 other people visiting La Pedrera with you and your guide.

You will see the corridors of the building, the reconstruction of the residence, the inner courtyard and the Espai Gaudí, La Pedrera's museum dedicated to the genius of the Catalan architect. After the visit, you can go to the Café de la Pedrera for a coffee or a drink included in the tour.

• Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
• Recommended: If you're an early riser and it's worth avoiding other groups of tourists during your visit to La Pedrera.

Combining two of Barcelona's most important buildings in one visit makes this half-day tour a very interesting experience.

In addition to the full tour of La Pedrera where you will visit its residences, corridors, rooftop and courtyard, as well as the museum dedicated to Gaudí, you will discover another of his emblematic works, Casa Batlló, located in what is known as the Block of Discord, where you can find buildings by other modernist artists such as Casa Amatller by Josep Puig i Cadafalch or Casa Lleó Morera, the work of Lluís Domènech i Montaner.

Casa Batlló is different from La Pedrera in that it is not a building designed and built by Gaudí, but a remodelling of an existing building in which the architect added the façade, modified the interior courtyard and created a rooftop terrace in his own particular style. The advantage of this tour: you won't have to wait in line at any of the entrances.

It's worth combining a visit to Casa Batlló and La Pedrera in a single tour to discover Gaudí's architecture in depth and how it became synonymous with Barcelona's aesthetic.

• Duration: 3 hours 30 minutes
• Recommended: If you have already been to Barcelona, or if you are going to be in the city for more than a week.

This complete tour of Barcelona with visit to the Sagrada Familia, Park Güell and La Pedrera combines the most outstanding points of interest of Barcelona, and can be very worthwhile to make these three visits in the company of a specialized guide and dedicate the rest of your trip to explore the city on your own.

You will visit, besides the Sagrada Familia, Park Güell and La Pedrera, the main areas of the city such as the Gothic Quarter or the Basilica of Santa Maria del Mar.

• Duration: 8 hours
• Recommended: If you want to visit the essentials of Barcelona in the company of a guide with tickets to the main attractions included.

What you will see

Alex's Traveller Tip

The night-time experience at La Pedrera is unique and has advantages such as avoiding the tourist crowds and the heat of the day.

La Pedrera is Gaudí's main work after the Sagrada Familia, and is therefore a very popular attraction for tourists and art connoisseurs alike. This results in long queues waiting to buy tickets at the ticket office, so as is often the case, it's best to buy your tickets to La Pedrera in advance. Also, tickets at the box office are €3 more expensive.

Even so, I recommend you check the weather forecast for the day of your visit as on rainy days the rooftop of La Pedrera is closed. Therefore, it is best to buy your tickets at least five days in advance. Entrance to La Pedrera has a fixed time, so make sure you plan your day of visit well in advance so that you are at the building at the time of your ticket.

If you plan to visit Casa Batlló as well, I would recommend buying your tickets or booking your tour for after your visit to La Pedrera, as they are very close, about a five-minute walk away.

How to get to La Pedrera

La Pedrera is on Passeig de Gràcia, 92 in the Eixample district, where there are a number of tourist attractions in the form of modernist buildings. As I have already mentioned, La Pedrera is in what is known as the Block of Discord because of its "competition" with other buildings by renowned Catalan architects on the same block.

The nearest metro stop is Diagonal (lines 3 and 5). You can also get off at Passeig de Gràcia by RENFE train, and by buses 7, 16, 17, 22, 24 and V17.

Opening days and times of La Pedrera

La Pedrera is open every day of the year, except for one week a year when it is closed for maintenance, usually at times of the year when there are fewer tourists. Depending on the time of year, La Pedrera has different opening hours, which are good to know in order to better plan your visit:

Duration of the visit to La Pedrera

For a complete visit to La Pedrera, I recommend you set aside at least an hour and a half. If it's a nice day, it's also a good idea to stay a little longer on the roof, so two hours should be enough time.

Best time of day to visit La Pedrera

My recommendation is to go first thing in the morning, between 9:00 and 10:00 there are few visitors and you will be able to enjoy the tour much more. Another option is at 16:00 in the afternoon, as you have a window of a couple of hours until 18:00, the time when most tourists go to La Pedrera.

Another option is to make a night visit, which as you know has many advantages such as avoiding the heat of the day and avoiding the crowds of visitors. If you're lucky, you can even enjoy live jazz music on the rooftop, which happens on some nights throughout the year.

Comfortable shoes are almost necessary for La Pedrera: there are a lot of stairs to climb and you don't want to get to the roof with sore feet and miss out on the wonderful scenery.

However, there is a lift to the roof if for any reason you can't climb stairs. My recommendation is that if there is no queue for the lift at the time of your visit, take it up to the roof and take your tour of La Pedrera down to the ground floor.

Although there may be more tourists, after 17:30 the light starts to change with the sunset and the photos of the roof will be much more beautiful. If you're on the hunt for the perfect moment to capture with your camera, visit La Pedrera from that time onwards.

Some tours of La Pedrera include a coffee at El Cafè de la Pedrera, which is very close to the iconic building but not the best option for lunch. Here are a couple of recommendations:

Next to La Pedrera, you might want to visit Casa Batlló, for which you can read the best tips and find your tickets at the best price in my guide to the best places to visit in Barcelona. Barcelona Casa Batlló Tickets and Visits. A must-see when visiting Barcelona is the Sagrada Familia, and to help you organise your visit I've written this guide to the Sagrada Familia. Barcelona Sagrada Familia Tickets and Visits with tips and tricks to visit it like a local.

Park Güell is another place you won't want to miss, so check out my guide on how to get the best tickets to the Sagrada Familia. Park Güell in Barcelona Tickets and Tours and find out how to get the best tickets and everything you need to know before you go.

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