What to see in Barcelona alone for 1, 2, 3 days?

Where is the best place to relax in Spain at sea? Coast of Catalonia! We want to tell you about our favorite places to visit. in Barcelona for 1 – 3 days trip. We have never studied the routes by attractions of the city and for 4 trips there gathered for you tons of photos and text. Where to go from Barcelona for one day? About This, too, will tell and show?

You can whirl on the architectural and cultural carousel of the city endlessly, but if you only have a day, or three, in reserve, routes must be clear and systematized. What to see in Barcelona in a short time, where to go and, most importantly, how to get to must see places? Share your experience and feedback. Last time at May we went there for the whole 9 days!

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1. Barcelona for 1 day – 2 days – 3 days
2. Landmarks Map
3. Metro Barcelona
4. Where to go from Barcelona?
5. Barcelona Museums

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Top 10 Barcelona sights are as follows in the following way:

• Sagrada Familia (Sagrada Familia)
• Las Ramblas
• Park Guell (and the whole architecture of Antonio Gaudi)
• Boqueria market
• Gothic Quarter
• Barcelona Aquarium
• Plaza of Spain (Museum of Catalan Art, Singing fountains)
• Mount Tibidabo
• Spanish village
• The promenade and the beach of Barceloneta (included in the TOP-10 beaches of Barcelona together with nudist?

Of course, to accommodate all these objects in one day in Barcelona will be quite difficult. We’ll have to leave something for later, but more will be the desire to visit the city again.

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We advise you to go here at 6-7 am – especially in the midst season

Barcelona for 1 day

Surely the starting point of your travels will be the area. Catalonia (Plaça de Catalunya), where the buses from airport and where train arrives from neighboring resorts.

To see Barcelona in 1 day on our own, we We offer this route:

1. Plaza Catalunya,
2. Park Guell,
3. Rambla,
4. Boqueria Market,
5. Gothic Quarter,
6. Temple Sagrada Familia,
7. Square of Spain.

To the note: know, whom they meet with the tablet in the airport? Those who order an individual transfer. At the very In fact, it is profitable and for the money – when traveling by company, and of time – all the more so if in Barça for the day. We book a car on KiwiTaxi.

One of the main attractions of Barcelona with huge bursts

1 Планировать завтрак рекомендуем в кафе Brunch&Cake,located 10 minutes walk from the square Catalonia Address: Carrer d’Enric Granados, 19. Doors swing open at 9 am, so we run straight to the opening, otherwise line up. The popularity of the place does not spoil the quality Breakfast, which you can eat to satiety can be about 18 €, and What would be the strength to go – for 10-12 €?

2 In advance “prepared” can skip this item and immediately go down the subway and take the L3 line to Lesseps station. 15 minutes walk, focusing on the signs, and you – in the park Guell – the iconic landmark of Barcelona. Since morning here it is most comfortable, there are few tourists, and the sun is not so hot. 17 hectares of greenery, steps up, steps down, observation platforms and Gaudi’s characteristic gingerbread style – a tour of the park, along with paid zones (€ will take about one. 5 hours.

3 Returning the same way, to the subway station Catalunya, Cross the square and find yourself on the Rambla – the main tourist street of the city. Every visitor counts due to go a kilometer to the monument Columbus And in parallel to consider all offers souvenir and gift industry of the city (at inflated prices) and evaluate the activities of street performers.

4 There is a market on the boulevard Bokeria, where exactly worth a look, if independent Barcelona study for 1 day you wish to capture in memory an excellent piece of jamon, a portion of selected spices and fresh fruits.

5 Turning off Rambla, tourists enter Gothic Quarter. This is one of the oldest districts. the capital of Catalonia, its historical center, full of medieval architecture and chaotic streets. Objects are also located here, not mentioned in the top sights of Barcelona, but nevertheless considered the main points of a visit to the quarter – Cathedral St. Eulalia, Royal Square, Church Santa Maria del Pi. A suitable place for lunch – cafe “Four Kota “on Carrer de Montsio, 3. Sometime here Gaudi was eating and Picasso.

6 About half an hour walk to get to Cathedral of the Holy Family. In order to save time, you can take the subway at Passeig de Gracia station and line L2 take the station Sagrada Familia. If you plan to go inside, buy tickets in advance online, because in place for sure catch huge queues at the box office. Basic option of all available tickets cost 15 €, with audio guide – from 24 €.

7 If your one day in Barcelona falls on Thursday – Sunday, go to the square in the evening Spain From Sagrada Familia – on the L2 branch to the station Universitat, transfer to L1 and to Espanya station. At 21:00 the singing fountain show begins daily gathering crowds of tourists.

However, if you are visiting the city from Monday to Wednesday, or start time too late, finish mini trip on the promenade of Barceloneta.

Where to eat in Barcelona in the evening? A good place – Salamanca on Calle Almirall Cervera, 34, where you can taste paella for dinner and sangria overlooking the sea?

In general, you can at once simplify your plans for the days ahead by taking thematic excursion from local:

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If you have not yet decided how you will get to Barcelona and think about the tour, here are 3 verified sites for online booking tours with 24 hour support:

• Travelata
• Level.Travel
• Onlinetours

Price is per person when you purchase a tour on two

Barcelona for 2 days

What to see in Barcelona on day 2? Route:

1. Mila’s house
2. House batlo
3. Barcelona Aquarium,
4. Museum of Catalan art.

Look for shrimp on the beach of Barcelona

1. At the metro station Diagonal is the house of Mila. The particular style of the building – in the form of waves – lends a bit of surrealism and impressions of mobility at home, and the characteristic “gingerbread” tip gives out a hand to Gaudi. Open to the public from 9 to 20, entrance ticket – € 22.

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1. Five hundred meters above the road is a house Batlló on Passeig de Gracia, 43. This is another example. the absence of any straight lines in the design of buildings from Gaudi, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Look in It is allowed in the period from 9 to 21, after paying the ticket with minimum price of € 24.5.

Excursion: Understand the creations of Gaudi – in 3 hours and € 45

1. You can continue the Barcelona route on foot to the largest in the European part of the world Aquarium, located at Moll d’Espanya, Port Vell. Visitors are literally sense on the seabed, fenced off by thousands of marine inhabitants only a glass tunnel. Well, as if they did not come to look at strange creatures, and vice versa? Login – from 10 to 21 (depends on seasons) and costs € 20.
2. In the largest museum of Barcelona – National Museum Art of Catalonia – you can get on the subway, before reaching Espanya station and passing through the already familiar square of Spain up to a majestically towering palace. In the summer, the museum is open. from Tuesday to Sunday from 10 to 20, the ticket price is about 12 €. However, it is possible and a free visit, about this – just below.

In 2013, the entrance to the Park Guell was still free

Barcelona in 3 days

On day 3 in Barcelona alone you can see the following route:

1. Barceloneta Beach,
2. Mount Tibidabo,
3. Spanish village
4. Agbar Tower,
5. Quay.

Are you interested in atypical excursions with “unbroken” routes? On tripster.ru you will find fascinating group or individual mini trips with local Russians. What about Barcelona explorations by bike? ?

1. If in previous days you could not accommodate sunbathing on the Mediterranean coast, this morning is the right moment for swimming and sunbathing on the beach Barceloneta. Of course, subject to traveling in the summer time?
2. Entertainment in Barcelona is still abundant on the third day. One of the most interesting is the ascent of Mount Tibidabo. There is also an amusement park opened in the XIX century, and the complex of churches is the temple of the Sacred Heart, and one of the best viewing platforms in Barcelona. Get to the highest Points – an exciting adventure. We must first get to the station Av Tibidabo on the L7 line, transfer to the famous Blue Tram (4 € per one side), plying along the route for more than a century, and arrive to the Plaça del Funicular stop, from where it will lift you up old Barcelona funicular (€ 7.7).
3. Returning in the same way to Plaza Catalunya and driving a little further by metro to Espanya, you can get into Spanish the village. This place is a miniature Spain: in the quarter are collected village houses, shops, churches from each region of the country. The cost of the visit will cost about 11 €.

Excursion: Dinner in the Spanish village + show on Montjuic – for € 40

1. Viewpoints in Barcelona and evaluate near the metro station Glories – here is a noticeable 34-storey skyscraper from everywhere Agbar Tower. Well, or “Glowing Cucumber”, like call him in the night? It is possible to go free thanks to dozens of restaurants and cafes in the building.
2. In the evening you can go to the nightclubs of Barcelona, lined up in row along the seafront of Barceloneta. And you can just walk along the sea, enjoy the end of the visit to the capital Catalan and parallel to plan the next mandatory a trip, because Barcelona and in addition to the above attractions still have something to surprise!

Barcelona map with landmarks

Below is a map of Barcelona with landmarks on Russian language. For your convenience, we have noted the main points. route to the sights of Barcelona, which can visit for 1, 2 and 3 days in different colors (blue, green and red respectively) so that you have a rough idea of moving around the city.

Tip: if you are without internet, navigate by terrain helps great app offline maps maps.me! We are personally Testi it in different countries. Download a detailed map of Barcelona and Transfer all waypoints to the app. Such an assistant, with marked streets, hotels, etc., just will not let get lost? The main thing to do everything in advance.

Metro Barcelona

Another good guide to Barcelona, bringing together on Barcelona attractions map and metro map 2019:

Source: barcelonatm.ru

Download Barcelona Attractions Map

In Barcelona, the metro is the most convenient form of transport, connecting its network all corners of the city. On the above map, you yourself see that before each attraction you can usually get on the subway.

Total capital of Catalonia has about 180 metro stations, scattered over 10 lines. They differ (lines) by numbers – from L1 to L5, L9N, L9S, L10-L11 and FM. Since the metro system integrates with railways (next to the suburb), there is a division into metro zones. All Barcelona enters the Zone 1.

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How much does the metro cost in Barcelona? Single ticket to one side i. operating on the subway and the bus, it is worth 2.20 €. Purchased at stations in special machines – people for window selling tickets in Barcelona you will not find?

You can reduce the cost of travel in the subway of Barcelona, if you intend to actively travel around the city. For this there is a ticket T10, which for 10,20 € provides 10 trips on any kind public transport. One pass can take advantage a few people. T10 ticket does not apply to the L9 metro line and shuttles from AeroBus airport.

The Barcelona Metro Map will definitely be needed on site, so it’s best pre-print or download to your phone. Recall that time jobs vary by days of the week: from Monday to Thursday 5: 00-00: 00, Friday and holidays 5: 00-2: 00, Saturday Round the clock, Sunday 5: 00-00: 00.

Be sure to meet the sunset on Montjuic (Plaza of Spain)

Where to go from Barcelona?

If you have a couple extra days left, and you walked around the city up and down, one may wonder – where to go from Barcelona for 1 day? For new “beach” impressions to go especially do not go far – the Costa Brava (Lloret de Mar) and Costa Dorada, to the south and north of the capital, rich in placer golden sands and clear sea waves.

But if you want something atypical … For this case, we chose the sights near Barcelona that are exactly make you admire, and some – and freeze from fear.

The most convenient way to travel in Spain is by car – and the company “own”, and it is not necessary to adjust to the schedule. We prefer rent a car in advance on the Rentalcars website. Service scans offers from all global and local rental agencies and makes us happy profitable options.

Our trip to Barcelona (Mount Montserrat and Benedictine Monastery – July 2016)

Montserrat mountain and Benedictine monastery. Ride on the cable car, wonder unusual shape of the rocks, listen The oldest children’s choir in the world and you can touch the Black Madonna only 50 kilometers from Barcelona. For this you need to train from the platform R5 from the station Espanya get either to the cable car Aeri, either before the Cremallera cable car. Cost together with transport top – € 21.50 € both ways. You can save at your own risk. risk – buy a train ticket in one direction only, and back drive hare (turnstiles not).

Excursion: Montserrat with a guide – for € 45

Port Aventura and Ferrari Land. In 2013 cost 42 €, in 2018 – 55 €. Some of the most famous entertainment in Barcelona The rides of these theme parks are great to tickle your nerves! Take at least the recently opened extreme slide Red Force, which will let you free fall from 112 meters. We have the knees gave way for a long time … But even after several traveling to Barcelona, every time we come here, everything Equally heading to Port Aventura. ?

Favorite place Port Aventura (in 2013 cost 42 €, in 2018 – 55 €)

Figueras. Where to go from Barcelona to touch the legacy of catalan art? In the town where Salvador Dali was born and rests! Moreover, on his grave per day pass hundreds of legs of tourists, because buried the artist under one of rooms of the famous theater-museum Dali. You can get to Figueres for € 20 by train from Estacio Sants station in 55 minutes or car, breaking 140 km.

Excursion: Theater Dali and Girona – interesting and not expensive for € 70

Girona. This city is divided by the river into two parts from different eras – modern and medieval. In the old The city has at least 5 museums, 8 temples and even Arab baths from the XII century.

Our trip to Girona in May 2013

All in all, this is truly one of the attractions that worth seeing next to Barcelona. From Passieg de Gracia station every half an hour there are trains to Girona; ticket price – 9 €.

Trip to Girona for 10 €

Empuriabrava. City freaked out by water channels, which are sedately driven by locals, can be found not only in Italy. In Spain, it is Empuriabrava. However, instead of gondolas here – yachts, boats, boats owned owners of villas and mansions built on scraps of land and professional yachtsmen. To get here, you need to get to Figueres and then take the bus for 4 €.

Vall de Nuria. This, of course, is no longer from the section. “what to see around Barcelona”, because place perhaps closer to Andorra? However, the picturesque mountains, the clear lake, clean air and all-serene tranquility so much contrast with the scenery and atmosphere of the capital of Catalonia that way 130 kilometers long is worth it. If you have 3 days or more, stay longer! To get first by train on the line R3 from Placa de Catalunya to Ribes de Freser, and then on the funicular train to a height of 1950 meters. The cost of a round-trip ticket is € 30.

Andorra. Probably the most exciting an adventure that you can make from Barcelona! Neighborhood welcomes all tourists with a Schengen visa in the passport. The distance from Barcelona to Andorra is about 200 km, and is covered by car in about 3 hours. How to get from Barcelona to Andorra to public transport? Only by bus from Sants station or airport El Prat for € 28–41 one way.

In Andorra behind the mountains and shopping

Barcelona Museums

Any route to the sights of Barcelona does not cost without … museums! It’s doubly enjoyable to visit them for free, isn’t it? how do this? ?

• The most significant – the National Museum of Art Catalunya (Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya) storing collections of the former Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Art Catalonia You will be able to pass for free every Saturday from 15 to 18 and the first Sunday of the month.

Went to the main museum of Catalonia (did not like)

• The capital of Catalonia protects the memory and one more outstanding artist and sculptor. Picasso Museum in Barcelona (Museu Picasso) occupies 5 mansions, ideally fitting in architecture of the Gothic quarter. Without a ticket, look into each Sunday after 15:00
• Share in detail the history of the provincial capital through numerous exhibits may the City History Museum Barcelona (MHCB). It is less open for free access – only on the first Sunday of the month.

• Barcelona Contemporary Art Museum (MACBA) – this is for those who have a passion for futuristic expositions, fascinating art installations and sometimes forcing to blush photos. Free attendance is practiced every Sunday with 15 to 20.
• Well, why in the Chocolate Museum in Barcelona (Museu de la Xocolata) without a ticket allowed only in the first Monday of the month is completely understandable. Not enough chocolates that handed at the entrance to all visitors! ?

In general, if you give advice to tourists, then to Spain, as in In general, to Barcelona, it is better to go for 7-10 days to catch enjoy the sun, the sea, the cool roller coaster and attractions to the fullest.