Barcelona's Modernisme walk: along Passeig de Gràcia to Casa Vicens, with what is open each day

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💡 The Short Version: Start at Plaça de Catalunya and finish at Casa Vicens in Gràcia: 3.3 km, about 40 minutes of walking, and 5 to 6 hours with three Gaudí houses. Walk it Monday to Saturday: on Sundays Palau Robert closes at 14:30. Book the houses as soon as your date is fixed. Casa Batlló’s online price falls by up to €15 the earlier you buy, La Pedrera recommends booking ahead, and Casa Vicens admits you only at the time on your ticket. Or book a tour: The 3 Gaudí Houses Tourad (from £101, 3 hours) goes through Casa Vicens, La Pedrera and Casa Batlló with entry included, in the opposite direction.

The route

Map of the walk numbered stops in walking order

Open the whole route in Google Maps - all the stops in walking order, set to walking directions, which is the version to put on your phone.

Passeig de Gràcia was the avenue where Barcelona’s wealthy families rebuilt their houses in the early 1900s, and the walk follows it north from the old city, out of the Eixample and into Gràcia, a separate town until 1897. Prices are the adult rate in euros from each operator.

Walk it with a guide

A guide adds the stories and finds the route for you. Prices are GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” prices, per person.

• Barcelona: The 3 Gaudí Houses Tour (Vicens, Milà and Batlló)ad, by The Touring Pandas: from £101, 4.7 stars from 532 reviews, 3 hours, up to 12 people. It starts at Casa Vicens and walks down to La Pedrera and Casa Batlló with a guide in English, Chinese, Japanese or Korean. Entry is included, but not to every room: at Casa Vicens the garden and main floor, at La Pedrera the courtyards, the rooftop and the tenant’s apartment, and at Casa Batlló the entrance hall and the main floor.
• Barcelona: Oh My Gaudi Walking Tourad, by Scandic Tours: from £21.25, 5 stars from 16 reviews, 2 hours. It meets at the fountain by the L2 and L4 metro exit on Gran Via and Passeig de Gràcia, and shows the Modernist houses from outside.
• Barcelona: Casa Amatller Priority Entry Ticketad, by Cases Singulars: from £15.30, 4.8 stars from 282 reviews. Priority entry and an audio guide, meeting in the lobby at Passeig de Gràcia 41.

Casa Batlló or La Pedrera compares the two houses ticket by ticket, and shows the price of the combined tour.

1. Plaça de Catalunya

Free · metro L1 and L3, FGC and Rodalies trains · the Aerobús from the airport ends here

Plaça de Catalunya at dusk. Photo: Jorge Láscar, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

Passeig de Gràcia leaves the square and runs 790 m to the Block of Discord, crossing Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes and Carrer del Consell de Cent on the way. To skip the walk to the block, take the metro (L2, L3 or L4) to Passeig de Gràcia, which is beside it.

The Gothic Quarter and El Born start from the same square: see the Gothic Quarter and El Born walk.

2. The Block of Discord and Casa Batlló

Casa Batlló: from €29 online, open every day, first entry 9:00, last 19:45 · Casa Amatller: audio-guided tour €21 online, 10:00 to 19:00 · Passeig de Gràcia 35-43

The Block of Discord from across Passeig de Gràcia. Photo: Fred Romero, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.

The stretch of Passeig de Gràcia between Carrer del Consell de Cent and Carrer d’Aragó has houses by four architects, remodelled between 1898 and 1906. Casa Amatller came first: Puig i Cadafalch rebuilt its front in 1898 in a Flemish Gothic style, with a high stepped gable, ceramic tiles and carved animals. Domènech i Montaner finished Casa Lleó Morera, on the corner of Carrer del Consell de Cent, in 1905, with a florid front in ceramic tiles. Enric Sagnier’s Casa Mulleras, at No. 37, is the restrained one, in 1906, with a neoclassical front and a Rococo-style loggia. Gaudí’s Casa Batlló is from 1904 to 1906.

The roof and tower of Casa Batlló. Photo: Bernard Gagnon, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

• Casa Batlló: Josep Batlló bought the house in 1903, an 1877 building by Emili Sala Cortés, and gave Gaudí a free hand. Gaudí remodelled it from 1904 to 1906, reworking the front, the interior partitions and the light well. The roof is made of large scales like the back of an animal, with a tower and a four-armed cross; a popular reading is the legend of Saint George and the dragon, with the cross as the sword’s hilt. The columns on the lower floors have bone-like shapes, and the balcony railings are cast-iron masks. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
• The general visit takes about 1 hour 15 with an audio guide in 15 languages: from €29, first entry 9:00, last 19:45, children up to 12 free. Online tickets cost up to €15 less the earlier you buy them, and the box office is €4 to €15 dearer than online and sells only the general visit. Book at casabatllo.es.
• Casa Amatller: a house museum, with an audio-guided tour of 50 minutes starting every 30 minutes from 10:00 to 19:00, €21 online, or a guided tour in English at 10:00 from Sunday to Friday, €23 online. Book at amatller.org.
• Casa Lleó Morera is on the corner, and Casa Mulleras beside it.

La Pedrera is 560 m up the avenue.

3. La Pedrera (Casa Milà)

From €29 · open every day, 9:00 to 20:30 until 1 November, 9:00 to 18:30 from 2 November to 25 February 2027 · closed 25 December 2026 and 11 to 17 January 2027 · Passeig de Gràcia 92

La Pedrera on the corner of Passeig de Gràcia and Carrer de Provença. Photo: Thomas Ledl, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Casa Milà, built from 1906 to 1912, was Gaudí’s last civil work. It is two blocks of flats with separate entrances, arranged round two courtyards that ramps connect to the garage. The structure is stone pillars and solid brick, so the walls could be placed freely. Under the roof, the attic rests on 270 brick catenary arches; on top, six stairwell exits and 29 chimneys, the flues of the old coal-fired heating, stand on the roof terrace. One group of chimneys is covered in fragments of dark green champagne bottles.

• The visit is self-guided with a video guide, takes an hour to an hour and a half, and covers the courtyards, a tenant’s apartment, the attic and the rooftop. Essential tickets are from €29.
• Booking is not required, but La Pedrera recommends it: it avoids the queue and the fees at the ticket office. La Pedrera says 9:00 to 10:00 and the afternoon from 16:00 are the quietest times.
• Rain: the rooftop closes. A ticket that has not been validated can be moved to another date.
• Closed on 25 December 2026 and from 11 to 17 January 2027; on 1 January 2027 it opens at 11:00. The official site has the hours.

Palau Robert is 275 m on, on the same side of the avenue.

4. Palau Robert

Free · Monday to Saturday 9:00 to 20:00 · Sunday and holidays 9:00 to 14:30 · closed 25 and 26 December, 1 and 6 January · Passeig de Gràcia 107

The garden front of Palau Robert. Photo: Enric, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Palau Robert is not Modernista: it is a neoclassical house in stone from the Montgrí mountain, completed in 1903 as the private home of Robert Robert i Surís, from Girona. The Generalitat of Catalonia bought it on 11 May 1981 and uses it for exhibitions, in the palace and in the old coach house, the Cotxeres. The garden is open to the public, and the exhibitions are free: “Un teatre Lliure”, on the Teatre Lliure’s 50 years, runs from 22 September 2026 to 17 January 2027.

• On 24 and 31 December and 5 January it closes at 14:30.
• Groups of more than ten must arrange a visit in advance.

Follow Passeig de Gràcia to Carrer Gran de Gràcia and then Carrer de Gràcia to Casa Fuster: 380 m.

5. Casa Fuster

Free from the pavement · Passeig de Gràcia 132 · a hotel, with the Café Vienés jazz club

Casa Fuster. Photo: Josep Panadero, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Domènech i Montaner, who had finished Casa Lleó Morera at the start of the walk, built Casa Fuster in 1908. It was renovated in 2004 as a hotel with 105 rooms and a spa, and its Café Vienés is a jazz club. It stands at the edge of Gràcia, a separate town until 1897.

Tangana is 170 m away.

6. Plaça de la Vila de Gràcia

Free · always open

The Campanar de Gràcia in Plaça de la Vila de Gràcia. Photo: Nicholas Gemini, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Gràcia was an independent municipality until Barcelona annexed it in 1897, and the square was its centre. The octagonal clock tower in the middle, the Campanar de Gràcia, was designed by the town architect Antoni Rovira i Trias between 1862 and 1864 and inaugurated on 8 December 1863. A Swiss clockmaker, Albert Billeter, designed the clock, with four faces so that it could be seen from anywhere in the town; the bell at the top is known as la Marieta. The district council sits in the mid-19th-century building on the south-east side.

Carrer de Mariana Pineda leads to Plaça del Sol: 210 m.

7. Plaça del Sol

Free · always open

Plaça del Sol. Photo: Mattsjc, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0.

A rectangular square of 55 by 50 m, which has kept its original name, with a sunken central space reached by steps or ramps and terraces round the edges. Sit down on one of the terraces, or go on to Bodega Quimet, 330 m away.

The last leg is 800 m, along Carrer de Maspons, Carrer de Sant Joaquim, Carrer de Ros de Olano and Carrer de les Carolines.

8. Casa Vicens

Tickets on casavicens.org, cheaper online · every day, March to October 9:00 to 20:00, November to February 9:00 to 18:00 · last entry 1 hour 15 minutes before closing · closed 25 December and 7 to 14 January 2027 · Carrer de les Carolines 20-26

Casa Vicens on Carrer de les Carolines. Photo: Txllxt TxllxT, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Gaudí’s first major house was built between 1883 and 1885, when Gràcia was still a town of its own, and it is a World Heritage Site, declared in 2005. It is Gaudí in his orientalist period: abundant ceramic tiling, Moorish arches, exposed brick and temple-shaped finishes. A garden once surrounded it; the land was sold off for housing over the years, and in 1925 Joan Baptista Serra built an extension in Gaudí’s style, which made the house fully detached.

• Timed entry: access is only at the time on your ticket, not before or after, and once you leave you cannot go back in. The ticket office opens at 9:30. The visit takes about 1 hour 15.
• Which ticket: the self-guided visit has a free mobile audio guide in 16 languages; the guided visit runs 60 to 75 minutes in groups of up to 12.
• Tickets sold at the box office are subject to availability and a surcharge: buy at casavicens.org.

Fontana metro (L3) is 350 m away. For the park Gaudí designed, Park Güell is a further 1.6 km uphill, on a timed ticket bought online.

Where to eat

Tangana

Riera de Sant Miquel 19, Gràcia · Monday to Saturday 13:00 to 22:30 · closed Sundays

A loud, local room built round a bar that looks into the kitchen. Order the croquettes filled with fricandó, a beef stew, the lentil stew with pork ribs and botifarra, or the fideus a la cassola, noodles baked in a clay dish. It is 170 m from Casa Fuster.

Bar Mut

Carrer de Pau Claris 192 · every day 13:00 to midnight

A cramped, bistro-like wine bar with a marble counter and daily specials on a chalkboard. Order the croquettes, the steak with mushrooms or foie gras, or the lobster cooked with egg and brandy. It takes reservations; arriving early helps. It is 300 m from Palau Robert.

Bar Bodega Quimet

Carrer de Vic 23, Gràcia · Monday to Thursday 10:00 to 16:00 and, Tuesday to Thursday, 18:00 to 23:00 · Friday and Saturday 11:00 to 16:00 and 18:00 to 23:00 · Sunday 11:00 to 16:00

A tavern opened in 1954 that kept its food and its way of doing things when the Montero brothers took it over in 2010. Order the house vermut and tinned seafood. It is 330 m from Plaça de la Vila de Gràcia. Where to eat in Barcelona ranks more places by how many sources name them.

The best day to go

The timing that works, Monday to Saturday: be at Casa Batlló for the first entry at 9:00, at La Pedrera by 11:00, at Palau Robert before lunch, and eat in Gràcia. Casa Vicens takes entries until 1 hour 15 minutes before closing: 18:45 from March to October, 16:45 from November to February.

What closes:

• 2 November 2026: La Pedrera’s hours drop to 9:00 to 18:30 until 25 February 2027, and Casa Vicens closes at 18:00 from November to February.
• 1 January 2027: La Pedrera opens at 11:00, and Palau Robert is closed.

What does not close: Passeig de Gràcia, Plaça de la Vila de Gràcia, Plaça del Sol and Casa Batlló. A bad-weather day still works: the three houses are indoors, though La Pedrera’s rooftop closes in rain.

Getting there and back

• To the start: Plaça de Catalunya has metro L1 and L3, the FGC and Rodalies trains, and the Aerobús from the airport. See Barcelona metro tickets for the T-casual.
• From the end: Fontana metro, on L3, is 350 m from Casa Vicens. Diagonal (L3 and L5) is at La Pedrera.
• In reverse: the route works from Casa Vicens back down Passeig de Gràcia, which is the order of the guided 3 Gaudí Houses Tour.

What to do with the rest of the day

• The old city, which also starts at Plaça de Catalunya: the Gothic Quarter and El Born walk goes from the square to the cathedral, the Roman temple and the Picasso Museum.
• The basilica: the Sagrada Família is 1.8 km on foot from La Pedrera.
• The whole trip: one day in Barcelona and 3 days in Barcelona build the days round the bookings, and what to book before you go to Barcelona has the rest of the tickets.

Common questions

How long is the Modernisme walk in Barcelona?

3.3 km from Plaça de Catalunya to Casa Vicens, measured along the streets: about 40 minutes of walking, and 5 to 6 hours with Casa Batlló, La Pedrera and Casa Vicens. Starting at Passeig de Gràcia metro, beside the Block of Discord, saves the first 790 m.

How much does the Modernisme walk cost?

The streets, Palau Robert and the squares of Gràcia are free. Casa Batlló is from €29 online, La Pedrera from €29, and a Casa Amatller audio-guided tour €21 online. Casa Vicens sells its tickets on casavicens.org, where online prices are lower than at the ticket office.

How far ahead should I book the Gaudí houses?

As soon as your date is fixed. Casa Batlló's online price falls by up to €15 the earlier you buy, and its box office charges €4 to €15 more and sells only the general visit. La Pedrera recommends booking ahead to avoid queues and fees. Casa Vicens lets you in only at the time on your ticket.

Which day is best for the Modernisme walk?

Monday to Saturday. Casa Batlló, La Pedrera and Casa Vicens are open every day, but on Sundays Palau Robert closes at 14:30.

When are the Gaudí houses closed?

Casa Batlló is open every day of the year. La Pedrera is closed on 25 December 2026 and from 11 to 17 January 2027, and Casa Vicens on 25 December and from 7 to 14 January 2027.

Why is it called the Block of Discord?

The block of Passeig de Gràcia between Carrer del Consell de Cent and Carrer d'Aragó has houses by four architects in very different styles: Domènech i Montaner, Puig i Cadafalch, Gaudí and Sagnier. The Catalan name, Illa de la Discòrdia, is a pun: illa means a city block, and it echoes the expression for a bone of contention.