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 inspired by the forms of nature. Casa Milà is a visual spectacle, inside and out.

Being complementary to the rest of Gaudí's works, a visit to Casa Milà is a must if you are passionate about the creations of the Catalan architect: 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 will skip the lines at the ticket office and tour the entire 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 into 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 apartments, furnished in a recreation of the typical dwelling of wealthy families of the time.

You can climb to the top floor of the building and, in addition to marveling at the impressive helical-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 of 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 to what you are seeing.

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

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

• Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
• Recommended: If you are going to Barcelona in summer or you have 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 am) 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, the museum of La Pedrera 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 are an early riser and it is worth avoiding other tour groups 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 in which 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 since in it 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 the sense that it is not a building designed and built by Gaudí, but a remodeling of an existing building in which the architect added the facade, modified the interior courtyard and created a rooftop in his particular style. The advantage of this tour: you will not expect queues at any of the entrances.

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

• 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 highlights 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, in addition to 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 included to the main attractions.

What you will see

Alex's Traveller Tip

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

For tourists and art and architecture connoisseurs alike, La Pedrera is Gaudi's main work after the Sagrada Familia, and is therefore a very popular attraction. This translates into long lines waiting to buy tickets at the box office, so as often happens in these cases it is best to buy your tickets to La Pedrera in advance. Also, at the box office the tickets are 3€ more expensive.

Even so, I recommend you to check the weather forecast for the day of your visit because on rainy days the roof of La Pedrera is closed. Therefore, it is best to buy your tickets at least five days in advance. Tickets to La Pedrera have a fixed time, so be sure to plan your day of visit well in order to be in the building at the time marked on 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 neighborhood, 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 there by RENFE at the Passeig de Gràcia stop, and by buses 7, 16, 17, 22, 24 and V17.

Days and opening hours 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 during the off-peak tourist season. Depending on the time of year, La Pedrera has different opening hours that are good to know in order to better plan your visit:

Duration of the visit to La Pedrera

To make a complete visit of La Pedrera, I recommend you to reserve 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 rooftop, so two hours should be plenty of 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 can enjoy the tour much more. Another option is at 16:00 in the afternoon, since you have a window of a couple of hours until 18:00, 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 also avoid the crowds of visitors. If you are lucky, you can even enjoy live jazz music on the rooftop, which happens some nights during the year.

Wearing comfortable shoes to La Pedrera is almost necessary: there are a lot of stairs to climb and you don't want to get to the rooftop with sore feet and miss the wonderful scenery it offers.

Still, there is an elevator to the roof if for whatever reason you can't climb stairs. My recommendation is that if there is no line for the elevator at the time of your visit, take it to the roof and make your visit of La Pedrera down to the first floor.

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

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 may want to visit Casa Batlló, for which you can read the best tips and find your tickets at the best price in my guide of Barcelona Casa Batlló Tickets and Visits. A must when visiting Barcelona is to go to the Sagrada Familia, and to help you to organize your visit I have written this guide of Barcelona Sagrada Familia Tickets and Visits with tips and tricks to visit it like a local.

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