Visit the wonderful Park Güell, you will be amazed! 

Beautiful Park Güell full of stone sculptures, greenery and flowers Gaudí commissioned by Count Güell, who wanted to build on the outskirts of Barcelona a vast garden city. Although the original plan was ultimately not fulfilled, it did not detract from the beauty of this peaceful place. On the contrary – today this park is included in the list of UNESCO cultural heritage sites and enjoys great interest from visitors heading to Barcelona. 

Compare Park Güell tickets

If you already know that you want to visit the park, I recommend studying what tickets are available and how much they cost. My article will guide you through the selection. 

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A park like from a fairy tale

Right at the main entrance on Carrer Olot, two smaller buildings that look like something from a fairy tale will catch your eye – the first one will remind you of an elephant raising its trunk, and the second one will remind you of a mushroom. Their architecture shows the typical Gaudi signature: stylish turrets, play with arches, mosaic work and colour.

One of the gates of the fairytale Park Güell (Photo: Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0)

You can then go up a beautifully decorated staircase (how else than with a typical colorful mosaic), take a picture on a wavy bench with a lizard statue (by the way one of the symbols of Barcelona) and continue up to of the breathtaking Hall of the Hundred Columns (Hypostile Hall), where you can often enjoy live music while relaxing. According to the original plans for Gaudi's garden city, a market was to be located here, and the Doric columns were to provide protection for vendors on hot summer days. 

Tip: look at map of Gaudi buildings in Barcelona, where you will also find Park Güell marked.

In the park you will find, among other things: Gaudí Museum located in a small house just to the right of the main entrance, where the architect himself lived for a time. The entire scenery is characterized by unprecedented color and radiates immense optimism and peace. 

From the upper platform of the park is extra beautiful view of the city and the sea.

Although it doesn't seem like it, a trip to this park can easily take an entire morning or afternoon if you want. There are many places, paths and corners that you can discover. 

You can enter the park for free, but the best part is paid

Access to the park is either paid or free depending on where you want to look. In the past, there have been heated debates about whether the entrance to the park should be paid, and finally, since October 2013, the most tourist-attractive part of the park paid - admission for an adult will cost you €18, children under 6 are admitted for free. 

My tip to visit the paid part for free: Get up and come an hour before the official opening at 8:00 - then you don't have to pay to enter the park. The same applies one hour after the park officially closes. But it's better in the morning, because in the evening it can be dark and you wouldn't get much out of the visit.

Your responses to this tip: "The free entrance to Park Guell in the morning also really worked, which I didn't really believe, but it still felt nice to get up in the morning and enjoy a walk without a bunch of tourists and sellers of all sorts...and it was worth it :-)" – Lucie P . – The free entry described in this tip was canceled with the advent of the spread of the coronavirus and has not yet been restored...

In the paid part you will find all the beautiful places from the photos, in the free part there is "an ordinary park full of trees". 

The number of visitors to the park is limited to 400 people per half hour, so sure I recommend buying a ticket in advance or at least leaving early enough, so that you avoid the biggest rush and don't have to wait in line for a long time. 

The ticket can be purchased online and it is common for the most requested morning times to be quite busy for the following week... 

Park map - click to enlarge

How to get to Park Güell? 

• The fastest way to get to Park Güell is by metro. The metro line L3 goes here. I recommend getting off at Vallcarca or Lesseps station (map). From here you can then walk to the park.
• From Lesseps station, the journey takes about 20 minutes and I recommend using the entrance from Avinguda del Santuari de Sant Josep de la Muntanya, where you will find an escalator to facilitate the journey.
• If traveling from the Vallcarca metro station, also prepare for a 20-minute hike. Here you can save time by taking the escalator to Baixada de la Glòria and then towards the entrance to Avinguda del Santuari de Sant Josep de la Muntanya.
• In addition to the metro, you can get to the park by public transport bus: lines H6 go here (list of stops) and D40 (list of stops). Then take the bus to the Travessera de Dalt stop, from where it is about a 10-minute walk to the park. Access the park from Carrer Larrard or Avinguda del Santuari de Sant Josep de la Muntaya, where escalators make the journey easier. 
• Of course, they will also take you to the park tourist buses. Just look at the route and find the stop of the same name ("Park Güell). It is located on Avinguda de la Mare de Déu de Montserrat and from there it takes about 10 minutes to walk to the main entrance. I recommend the route from the Carretera del Carmel via Av. Pompeo Fabra.
• They have a stop right in front of the entrance, so if you have tourist card, you have won and you don't have to deal with anything. 
• Avoid going to the park by car – there are not many parking spaces around and the ones that are here are intended mainly for residents. 

What else is good to know before visiting Park Güell? 

• I recommend arriving at the park a little earlier than the time for which you bought the entrance. The operators are quite strict regarding the time of entry to the park. 
• You have exactly 30 minutes to enter from the time on the ticket. If you miss this window, unfortunately you will no longer be able to enter the park on the given ticket. 
• Once inside the park, you can spend as much time as you want. The only thing to know is that once you leave the park, you can't come back. 
• If you buy a ticket on the official website, you don't have the option to cancel it or reschedule it for another time if the original one doesn't suit you - you have to use it, donate it to someone, or sell it. 
• If you are also interested in the Gaudí museum, which is right in the park, you have to buy a separate ticket for it - this is not included in the price of the entrance to the park.