Decoding Gaudí on a private tour with official guide
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3 reviews (5.00)
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Departs: Barcelona, Barcelona
Ticket Type: Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Free cancellation
Overview
If you are keen on Gaudi and want to go deeper into his art and philosophy, this tour will be perfect for you. We will spend enough time on each location allowing you to immerse yourself into Gaudi’s world and vision. Understand the philosophy behind it discovering the origins of his stunning forms and you will never look at architecture with the same eyes again.
Please note the itinerary and timing of the tour will depend on agreed inside visits and entrances booked in advance. Entrance fees and transportation not included.
* Suggested itinerary:
14.00 Meeting at Casa Amatller or La Pedrera (optional inside visit)
* outside visit of Casa Batlló and La Pedrera
* walk along Passeig de Gracia
* Park Güell inside visit
* Sagrada Familia inside visit
18.00 End of the tour
* Taxi expences between venues on your own
* Optional private transfer with driver on disposal
* Entrance fees you can buy on your own or we can do it for you (advanced payment per Per Pal upon booking)
What's Included
Official private guide
What's Not Included
Entrance fees and transportation
Traveler Information
- TRAVELER: Age: 0 - 120
Additional Info
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
- For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
- If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
What To Expect
Casa Batllo
30 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
Casa Mila - La Pedrera
30 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
60 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
Basilica de la Sagrada Familia
60 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
Reviews
Of all the tour guides we have encountered, and all have been varying degrees of good at their craft, no one was better than Maria Nadina.
To us, she is the First Lady of Barcelona.
It's not just because she speaks six languages, all of them with clarity and eloquence, nor just because she has time to answer every question about every part of her adopted home, nor just because her smile and personality put a good face on Barcelona.
It's for all those reasons.
Of course Maria is delighted at the growth of cruising her city has experienced (at the time, Norwegian's 4,100-passenger Epic was the latest to make Barcelona home). It's good for her business.
She lives in one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations, and anybody who has been there knows why. We were smitten on our first visit, before we ever met Maria.
Yet she knows better than anyone that a city needs balance, and sometimes Barcelona can seem too touristy.
"Sometimes," she worries, "it's not so good for the locals, as all the industry seems to be oriented to tourism. And local services are somehow abandoned."
Abandoned never applies to her clients. She will show them La Sagrada Familia, the church that may never be completed. She'll enlighten you with the changes to Barcelona, starting with the modern-era ones that came with the 1992 Olympic Games. She'll tell you about where to go in Las Ramblas, the city’s legendary shopping and eating core. She'll detail the legacies of Picasso, and Antonio Gaudi, who designed the church nobody can finish and who lies under it. She'll tell you the good and the bad, just like she does about the impact of tourism.
The Olympics that brought Maria to Barcelona from Belgrade, and she enhanced her credentials by conducting cruise tours in Brazil, Alaska, the Caribbean, Mexico and Argentina. When she settled in Barcelona, Maria built her business (Barcelona Code) offering half a dozen tours, inside and outside the city.
She still finds that in her beautiful city "every daily walk is enough dose of inspiration for the next work of art in my glass and mosaics workshop."
As you see, there's nothing shallow about this First Lady of Barcelona.
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