Guided visit, in-house expert · Carrer de les Carolines 20-26
An in-house expert takes a small group through Casa Vicens room by room, explaining the structure, the decoration and the symbols Gaudí packed into his first house. When the tour ends you stay as long as you like, which gives you the best of both: the stories first, then time alone with the tiles.
Casa Vicens is full of things you would walk past without help. The yellow flowers on the tiles are marigolds the official site calls "Moorish carnations". The palm-leaf iron gate copies a dwarf palmetto that grew on the plot. The smoking room ceiling is a plaster palm grove with clusters of dates. A guide ties all of it together, and on this tour the guide is one of the house's own experts. Gaudí took the commission in 1878, aged 26, for the stockbroker Manuel Vicens i Montaner. The plans were signed on 15 January 1883 and the summer house went up from 1883 to 1885, when Gràcia was still a separate town.
The listing gives the tour 1 hour 30 minutes. You pick a small group of up to 10 people or a standard group of up to 12 when you book, and tours run in the morning or the afternoon, subject to availability. Casa Vicens runs its own guided visits in Catalan, Spanish, English, French, Italian, Chinese and Japanese. After the tour you are free to wander the house at your own pace, rooftop and garden included.
The building and routes have been adapted for people with reduced mobility, and one guest describes the guide helping two members of the group with the lift. The listing has 4.8 stars from 537 reviews, and guests name the guides Laura and Marc. It has the same from-price as the self-guided ticket, and free cancellation up to 24 hours before.
Meet at the house, Carrer de les Carolines 20-26 in Gràcia, with your passport or ID card.
The marigold tiles, the brick and the palm-leaf ironwork, and the garden the house once looked over.
The plant motifs, the Torrescassana paintings and the plaster palm ceiling.
The domed room with painted birds, the pink and blue bedrooms and the plans and models in the attic exhibition.
The tiled chimneys and Gaudí's turret, with its near twin added when Serra de Martínez extended the house in 1925 to 1927.
Stay as long as you like: revisit a room, sit in the garden or browse the shop.
★★★★★Visiting Casa Vicens with a guide made the experience much better. I dare say it's the most beautiful house Gaudí designed in Barcelona. Highly recommended!
★★★★★Marc was an exceptional guide and the tour was outstanding [...] As one of the earliest Gaudi houses in Barcelona, the style is very different from his other later work [...] Would highly recommend the tour
★★★★★The guide Laura was knowledgeable, cheerful, and attentive. And she speaks charming French. And the venue: magnificent.
★★★★★I recommend taking a guided tour of this house, because on your own you would probably miss out on a lot of interesting things.
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The listing gives 1 hour 30 minutes, and you can stay in the house as long as you like after the guide leaves. Casa Vicens puts its own guided visits at 60 to 75 minutes.
Check the languages offered for your date on GetYourGuide. Casa Vicens' own guided visits run in Catalan, Spanish, English, French, Italian, Chinese and Japanese, and one guest praises a guide's French.
Yes. The listing says the building and routes have been adapted for people with reduced mobility, and Casa Vicens has ramps and lifts.
Up to 10 people on the small-group option and up to 12 on the standard option. Casa Vicens caps its own guided visits at 12.
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An in-house expert takes a small group through Casa Vicens room by room, and you can stay as long as you like afterwards.
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