Modernisme and Gaudi Walking Tour
Important Modernistic Buildings in Barcelona
See the most important buildings of the Modernisme in Barcelona. During this about 2 hours long tour you will experience an entertaining guided tour along the famous houses of the Catalan art nouveau with a lot of interesting information.
Barely any architectural style besides the Gothic characterized Barcelona's urban image as much as the Modernisme - the Catalan Art Nouveau. The era of the Modernisme left Barcelona as a unique cultural heritage. The fact that in no other city are as many buildings on the UNESCO-list of world heritage as in Barcelona proves that Barcelona is a unique cultural heritage. Nine buildings are listed, all of them sights of the modernism.
Description of the Tour
There are over 2.000 registered modernistic buildings in Catalonia. During this tour you will see the most beautiful and most important ones of those, also a few unknown but still worth seeing buildings. We will show you works from the architects Antoni Gaudí, Lluís Domènech i Montaner and Josep Puig i Cadafalch amongst others.
- Via Laietana
- Caixa de Pensions
- Palau de la Música Catalana
- Casa Calvet
- Passeig de Gràcia
- Casa Pascual i Pons
- Casas Rocamora
- Rambla Catalunya
- Casa Lleó
- Casa Ramón
- Casa Amatller
- Casa Batlló
- Fundació Antoni Tàpies
- Casa Milá