Unlimited access to public transportation including the train to the airport, free entrance to most of the city's museums and exclusive discounts about other tourist attractions and experiences: the Barcelona Card allows travelers to literally have the keys to the city in their hands, saving time and money, thus enjoying the wonders of the cosmopolitan heart of Catalonia, famous above all for its art, architecture and colorful nightlife.
Where to buy the Barcellona Card and how to use it
La Barcelona Card You can buy everything tourist information offices in the city and at the airport at full price or online, with a small discount, through the official website of the Tourist Office (bcnshop.barcelonaturisme.com) or through the websites of official distributors, such as barcelonacard.org. Pricing They vary depending on the (consecutive) hours of use, with discounts that increase progressively. They range from the card with a validity of 72 hours (€41,40), through the 96 (€50,40) to the one with a duration of 120 hours (€54,90).
Children between 4 and 12 years old pay half the price. The card is activated automatically after the first use. Recently it is possible I will buy online a new version of the card, called Express, with a duration of 48 hours a day cost of only €18. This new product, ideal for a weekend, does not offer free entry but only discounts on the main attractions. Upon purchase, travelers will receive one free city ​​subway network map and a guide (available in six languages) with all free or discounted tickets and their relative location on a handy map.
Barcellona Card: unlimited travel on public transport and free entry to museums
With the Barcelona Card travelers have the entire network at their disposal urban public transport and they will be able to use it without limits, to experience the city in absolute comfort. Bus, metro and train to the airport at your complete disposal throughout the entire period of your stay. Please note that shuttle buses from El Prat and Girona airports are not included.
La Barcelona Card also allows free pass, skip the line, to more than 20 museums and attractions, such as the Picasso Museum (reservation required), the National Museum of Art of Catalonia (MNAC), the Joan Mirò Foundation, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA), the Museum of Contemporary Culture Center (CCCB), the Antoni Tà pies Foundation, the Museum of Catalan Modernism, the CosmoCaixa Science Museum, the Botanical Garden, the Chocolate Museum, the Music Museum, the Egyptian Museum, the Ethnological Museum, the Drawing Museum, all the headquarters of the Barcelona History Museum (MUHBA) and many more. Please note that visits to the Sagrada Familia and Park Güell are excluded from the Barcelona Card.
The exclusive offers and discounts of the Barcellona Card
By masterpieces of urban architecture represented by Casa Batllò, Casa Milà – La Pedrera, Casa Amatller, Casa de les Punxes and Casa Vicens, to the multicolored charm of GaudĂ's crypt in Colonia GĂĽell; from the Tibidabo and Portaventura amusement parks to the MontJuic cable car, from the Barcelona aquarium and zoo to the Palau de la MĂşsica and the Palau GĂĽell; from the Wax Museum to the guided tour of the Gothic Quarter (reservation required). Discounts vary from 10 to 50%. depending on the attractions. You can also always take advantage reduced prices of some interesting tourist experiences that will allow the visitor to attend pleasant flamenco and classical music shows.
Barcellona Card: the city at your fingertips
There is no doubt about its convenience. By doing a very quick mental calculation on the cost of public transportation and the price of tickets to museums and other tourist attractions, the Barcellona Card allows you to save a considerable sum of money, which travelers can then decide how to best use or conserve during their stay in the city.
Barcelona Card: the Sagrada Familia
After carefully evaluating the duration of your Barcelona Card, the city opens to travelers in all its beauty and majesty from the visionary spiers of the Sagrada Familia, the symbolic monument of Barcelona. Still nearing completion, like all churches built throughout the Middle Ages and beyond, the masterpiece designed by Antoni GaudĂ, who worked on it incessantly from 1883 to 1926, the year of his death, is a stunning example of architecture, where the suggestive decorations The exteriors, sometimes disturbing and lyrical, preserve an interior where the light that penetrates through the long windows creates harmonious plays of multicolored lights.
Barcellona Card: from the Rambla to the Gothic Quarter
The modern spirituality that surrounds the Sagrada Familia is then transformed into the human vortex that swarms day and night. La Rambla, the most famous street in the city, which meanders for more than a kilometer from Plaza Catalunya to the sea, between street artists, tapas bars and souvenir stalls. Some of Barcelona's most interesting attractions overlook here, such as the Wax Museum, which Admission is free with the Barcellona Card, the Liceu theater and the picturesque La Bouqueria market, where it is essential to stop to taste excellent tapas, perhaps made with the freshest fish from the market stalls.
Through the side streets of the Rambla you can breathe everything charm of this cosmopolitan city and its old neighborhoods, first of all the Gothic quarter, a labyrinth of winding streets that at night are illuminated with the lights of the countless hidden places here and there and the traditional quarries. The neighborhood is finally dominated by the Cathedral, a magnificent example of Catalan Gothic, and not far away are also the two basilicas of Santa MarĂa del Mar and that of Pi (of the pine).
Barcellona Card: Eixample, MontJuic and Barceloneta
On historic neighborhoods of Barcelona, the so-called Ciutat Vella (Barrio GĂłtico, El Raval y la Ribera), extends to the northeast a grandiose neighborhood, the Eixample, which looks like a chessboard from above. Here, on the famous street called Passeig de Gracia, between luxury boutiques and trendy restaurants, you will find GaudĂ's famous urban architecture: Casa MilĂ and Casa Batllò. In this neighborhood they also find the Sagrada Familia and Amatller house. To admire the city from above, however, we recommend taking the cable car (included in the Barcelona Card) that leaves the port and reaches Montjuic hill, where it is possible to visit the castle of the same name, the National Museum of Art. Museum of Catalonia and the Font Mágica: a spectacular and immense fountain where the water is colored and dances to the rhythm of music and whose glow is also visible from the city at night.
Going down towards the sea, at the end of the Rambla, the modern city waterfront, at the end of which, in front of MontJuic, is the charming neighborhood of Barceloneta, once an old fishing village with very narrow streets, where today as then, between nightclubs and fish restaurants, the sea breeze that rises from opposite blows. , and the famous, beach.
Arrive at Parc GĂĽell with the Barcellona Card
One of the most visited attractions in Barcelona is undoubtedly the Guell park, in the La Salut neighborhood, the masterpiece that GaudĂ left as a gift to his city at the beginning of the 20th century and which represents a wonderful example of an urban park, one of the most emblematic in the world. At the highest point of the park, with its strangely shaped buildings dotted with multicolored ceramics, there is ahuge panoramic terrace, the Plaza de la Naturaleza, bordered by a huge bench shaped like a sea serpent, from where you can enjoy an incomparable view of the city of Barcelona to the blue of the sea. Inside the park there are also GaudĂ's house museum, which hosted the artist and his family from 1906 to 1926. It was originally supposed to be the private garden of some villas, which however were never built, except for the demonstration one, which was later not sold and was bought by GaudĂ himself.
