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Park Güell: tickets, hours and what to see
A hillside park full of mosaics, stone columns and views of the whole city. Here is how to choose your ticket, when to go and how to arrive.
In short
- Park Güell is visited with a ticket for a time slot. You choose the day and the slot when you book, and you can enter up to 30 minutes after your slot begins. Once inside you can stay as long as you like, but if you leave you cannot come back in.
- Slots for visitors run all year from 9:30 to 17:30. The early morning and the evening belong to the residents of Barcelona, so there are no tourist visits at those hours. The park lets in a limited number of people every 30 minutes, and the places for a day can run out, so book before you go.
- Plan for steps and slopes: the paths are uneven and some ramps are steep. Dogs on a lead are allowed, but not in several areas of the monumental zone, and some paths may be closed for restoration work.
- Short on time? Choose the entry ticket with audio guide. Want to understand what you see? Choose a guided tour. Coming with children? Look at the family tour and the exploration game.
The serpentine bench: a wave of broken tiles
The great terrace of the park is edged by a long, winding bench covered in trencadís, the mosaic of broken ceramic that made the park famous. Gaudí worked on it with his collaborator Josep Maria Jujol, and behind it Barcelona opens out towards the sea.
The bench and its railing are being cleaned and restored, so part of the terrace may be fenced off when you arrive.
The Hypostyle Hall: a forest under the terrace
Under the terrace stands a covered hall of tall columns. Gaudí planned it as a covered market for the neighbourhood he imagined here. Today it is a covered, shady place to stop, and you can look up at the ceiling that holds the whole terrace above you.
The dragon and the entrance stairs
Just after the entrance, a wide stairway climbs between small pavilions towards the terrace. On the way you meet El Drac, the mosaic dragon, the best-known piece of the park, covered in fragments of tile.
The viaducts: columns that lean like trees
Gaudí designed roads for the park that follow the hill. The viaducts that carry them have stone columns leaning like tree trunks, with vaults overhead and greenery all around.
Some paths are closed for works, so the complete circuit of the viaducts may not be possible on your day.
The pink house where Gaudí lived
Inside the park stands a pink house with a pointed tower. Gaudí lived there from 1906 until 1925, and today it is the Gaudí House Museum. You can admire it from outside. Going inside depends on whether the museum is open on your day.
Visitor guide
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The story of Park Güell: Eusebi Güell's idea of a hillside neighbourhood, Gaudí's work, the houses that were never built and the park that opened in 1926.