Park Güell Tickets

• Whichever formula you choose, be aware that you will have to choose in advance the date and time for your visit to the park.
• Before the hour is not the time and after the hour is no longer the time. The guards are quite inflexible on this point. Tickets purchased in advance allow you to enter the Park during the 30 minutes following the reserved time slot.
• All the Park Güell tickets that we offer you skip the line tickets, i.e. you will not waste time in any queues at the entrance to the site.
• These entrance tickets are 100% mobile, either to print or to keep on your mobile phone.
• Last entrance one hour before closing time.

How can I buy tickets for Parc Guell?

There are two main ways to buy tickets for the Park Güell:

• Either on site at the Park's ticket office (see the Park map at the bottom of the page to locate entrances and ticket offices), although you do run the risk of waiting in long lines.
• Or directly online on this same page
• Simply choose the date and time of your visit.
• Tickets are immediately e-mailed to you.

• Barcelona's Park Güell is one of the Catalan capital's most legendary landmarks. Architect Antoni Gaudí's masterpiece is one of the city's finest tourist attractions, but only part of the 17-hectare park is open to the public.
• Access to the monumental area is subject to a charge. The entrance ticket entitles you to visit the best-known features of the park: its modernist sculptures, its winding dragon-shaped staircase, the terrace with its undulating bench covered in brightly coloured mosaics, the caretaker's house, the hypostyle hall, the Austrian gardens and, with a special ticket, the Gaudí Museum House.

Park Güell has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1984. Gaudí's park is considered to be one of his most emblematic works. It has been recognised for the unique architectural originality of its various monuments, such as the Lizard Fountain, the Hypostyle Hall, the undulating bench in the Plaça de la Natura, the House-Museum, the viaducts and the Washerwoman's Portico. This is multiple recognition by UNESCO of the originality and ingenuity of Gaudí, who received awards for a total of seven of his creations, including the Sagrada Família, la Casa Milà, la Casa Vicens, la Casa Batlló.

History of Park Güell and its creator Gaudí

It all began with an ordinary meeting between two people: a wealthy entrepreneur, Eusebi Güell, and an absolutely brilliant architect, Antoni Gaudí. A true friendship, numerous projects such as the Palais Güell, a church "La Colonia Güell" and a wine cellar preceded the fabulous adventure of Park Güell. From its origins in 1900 to its construction, we tell you the story.

The history of Park Güell began in 1900 when Eusebi Güell bought a plot of land on a hill in the south of Barcelona to create a garden city. The garden city was to include a chapel and a total of 60 houses. But the construction costs soared that only two houses and the park were completed. Work was completed in 1914 and the park became the property of the city of Barcelona 10 years later. The only consolation for Gaudi was that he was able to buy one of the houses when they came up for sale. He lived there until the end of his life. Today it is the Gaudí House Museum, which can also be visited with an additional Park Güell Ticket.

What to see at Park Güell

The monumental staircase & the lizard

Right in front of the main entrance to Park Güell is the monumental staircase with several staircases and fountains, the most famous of which is in the shape of a mosaic lizard, one of the city's most famous symbols. The lizard of Park Güell is also called the salamander or "the dragon of Park Güell". The staircase is designed in a neo-Gothic and Art Nouveau architectural style and is covered with coloured ceramic mosaics using the trencadis technique, emblematic of Gaudí's work.

The Hypostyle Room

At the top of the monumental staircase is The Hypostyle Room, made up of 86 sloping columns.

The "Sala Hipóstila", composed of 86 columns 6m high, was intended to serve as a marketplace and refers to a forest. On the ceiling of this room, mosaic circles represent the four seasons and the lunar cycles. Another wonder of the Park Güell...

The Nature Square and the serpentine bench

The Nature Square, designed as an ancient agora, is located above the Hypostyle Room. It is the emblematic place of the park. You know it without having seen it because its long mosaic serpentine bench is one of the most photographed monuments in Barcelona, along with the Lizard in Park Guell. The bench is 110m long and is said to be the longest wavy bench in the world! 

The Gaudí House-Museum

The Gaudí House-Museum or "Casa Museu Gaudí" in Catalan, was the residence of the architect Antoni Gaudí from 1906 to 1925. This house was a kind of show house for a project that included the construction of sixty houses in the park.> This museum can be visited with an additional ticket to Park Güell ticket. As in the case of the Monumental Zone, you can enter according to the date and time slot you choose when you buy your tickets. This visit is therefore queue-free, just like the entrance to the Park.

The Portico of the Washerwoman

On the eastern side of the Nature Square and its serpentine bench is an original iron gateway that leads to the former gardens of the Casa Larrard. A path or portico crosses a grove of pines in the form of a large wave made of inclined columns, with a double column acting as a buttress. A very good example of the organic architecture advocated by Gaudí. We will see how this building gives its name to the Portico of the Washerwoman.

Of all the gardens in Barcelona, this park is the most visited for its monumental area, as well as for its free section. The Catalans appreciate it for its calmness and its vegetation. Tourists like it for its alleys, paths, and viaducts, designed by Gaudí. Let's not forget that the park is a tribute to nature. Before its transformation, this mountain was called the "bare mountain" because it was deforested at the time. With the construction of Park Güell, Gaudí introduced a multitude of plants and Mediterranean vegetation, as well as a whole system of human and water circulation.

The monumental zone, is a World Heritage Site. Its entrance is not free. The adjacent forest area is free to enter.

The main Park Guell entrance is Carrer D'Olot, 08024 Barcelona, Spain.

The entrance to the monumental zone - the one you visit - is just as famous as the park itself, with its magnificent wrought iron gate (from the Casa Vicens) and the two pavilions that made up the caretaker's lodge when the park was built.

The two pavilions at the entrance to Park Güell

The pavilion on the left -when you enter- was the caretaker's house, with a waiting room and a telephone booth, and the one on the right was the caretaker's residence, hence its name Casa del Guarda (Caretaker's House).

These magnificent pavilions in Catalan modernist style with mosaic roofs are the signature of Gaudi and the gateway to his world.  

Today the pavilion on the right is a bookshop. The pavilion on the left "La Casa del Guarda" is the museum of Barcelona's history.

Laie Park Güell the bookshop of the Park

The Laie bookshop offers the possibility to buy souvenirs of the Park Guell and the work of Antoni Gaudí. These include merchandise such as postcards, posters, and t-shirts, as well as jewelry and costume jewelry, decorative objects, reproductions and specialised books on Gaudí, Modernisme and Barcelona.

The Laie bookshop is very well known in Barcelona for the quality of the books selected, especially on contemporary art. You can also find their bookshops at the Picasso Museum and the Pedrera - Casa Milà.

The Barcelona History Museum

The Barcelona History Museum is also present in several cultural places in Barcelona, including this pavilion "La Casa del Guarda" in Park Guell. A house built between 1901 and 1903 at the entrance to the park by Gaudí as a residence for the estate's caretaker. It is known for its use of Catalan vaulting and its combination of interior simplicity with great formal refinement. Comparing Gaudí's different constructions in the city and elsewhere, we can see his ability to find ingenious and practical solutions for different types of buildings and urban spaces using his knowledge of architecture, urbanism, and nature, which are rooted in ancient and local traditions.

Other entrances to Park Güell

There are two other possible entrances to Park Güell: the Carretera del Carmel entrance, number 23, and the Passatge de Sant Josep de la Muntanya entrance, which is served by escalators.

• We explain in more detail how to get to Park Guell and the address of the park.

Park Guell Free

Since 2022, only residents of the park or holders of the «Gaudir Més» card can visit the park free of charge - before it opens and after it officially closes - at the following times

"BON DIA BARCELONA": From 07:00 to 09:30.
"BON VESPRE BARCELONA": From 18:00 to 22:00.

Tourist visits are no longer allowed to take advantage of these specific times.