Skip the Line Sagrada Familia Guided Tour
Description
Gaudí’s La Sagrada Familia church is known for being one of Barcelona’s most iconic buildings. Being such a popular attraction can mean long visitor lines. Take the stress out of being stuck in crowds by having a skip-the-line entrance ticket included. You’ll get straight inside and have a guide to take you around this spectacular building. Learn about Gaudí and the bizarre yet magnificent techniques he used to design the building. Choose the Small Group Tour at time of booking to discover La Sagrada Familia on an intimate tour with maximum 15 guests. Same skip-the-line access and same expert guide, with space to ask all of your questions. Want to see more Gaudí masterpieces, select Sagrada Familia & Casa Batllo option at time of booking to visit Casa Batlló before your Sagrada Familia tour.
Tour Options
Itinerary
Your tour starts right by La Sagrada Familia, where you’ll meet your group (max 22 people) and your guide. If you select the Small Group Tour option at time of booking, you'll join a small group of just 15 people. Enter the magnificent Sagrada Família via the Nativity Façade, the only one that Antoni Gaudí finished in his lifetime. Compare the different faces of the cathedral, and learn what parts remain unfinished almost 130 years after work started under the architect Francisco de Paula del Villar in 1882. Hear how Gaudí’s plans have been interpreted since his death and learn about the controversies surrounding these interpretations. Move between the columns designed like trees that form the canopy of the ceiling. Explore how Gaudí developed his style from different religious, natural, and Catalonian influences. Get a better appreciation for his innovative use of light as you bask in the glow of the stained-glass windows that flood the interior with an other-worldly light.
If you select the Sagrada Familia & Casa Batllo option at time of booking, your tour starts near Casa Batlló, where you'll discover one of the architect's most famous residential homes. Your visit is timed for a quieter time of day to avoid the crowds and includes expert commentary from your guide.
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Important Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- All guests must bring ID on the day of their tour. This is especially important when booking reduced tickets (such as child tickets 2-10 years old) as Sagrada Familia often asks for ID as proof of age.
- Due to the religious nature of Sagrada Familia, all individuals regardless of gender must cover their shoulders and knees. You can bring extra covering (scarves, etc.) to put on just before entering. Walks cannot be held responsible for those denied entry.
- Children under 16 years must be accompanied by an adult.
- Unfortunately due to the nature of this tour it is not suitable for guests with mobility impairments or with wheelchairs, or strollers.
- All guests need to book a ticket to enter Sagrada Familia (including infants). Please make sure to add a free infant ticket at the checkout if needed.
- Please note: This tour offers multiple options. Take a moment to choose the one that best suits your interests.
Reviews(116)
The meeting point is at the ornate lantern near the address provided. The address provided for the meeting point is actually an apartment building and not truly correct. Once we called viator and found our tour guide, the tour was fabulous.
Amazing tour of La Sagrada! Alberto was a wonderful guide, we learned so much from him. Highly recommend.
Guides are no where to be found. They just st leave you !!! A rip off !!!! Will not book with Viator again!!!!!
A very informative and well presented tour of Gaudi's three main works and the history and concepts behind his creative design. It also showed his struggles and his ability to give freedom to the architects who went on to finish his work after he passed away
Well worth the money and experience. Our guide was awesome and learning about the history of Spain and the building was really great.
This was one of the best tours I’ve been on—Jana was excellent, knowledgeable, funny, and an all-around great guide. Well worth every penny, and doing both locations is definitely a lot to take in, but the pace was super manageable and easy. I went as a solo traveler, and was super happy with the experience, as well as the small group size. Would absolutely recommend!
Terrible, terrible experience. We went to Barcelona to see the Segrada Famiglia and didn’t get in. Couldn’t find our guide, couldn’t contact ANYONE. Took an hour to get through and be told they couldn’t contact the guide. Why they didn’t send us the actual tickets to get in is beyond me. We had 8 tickets costing hundreds of pounds. We made up half of the group but no one tried to contact us either. Now trying to get a refund and no one is responding to my emails. Ruined our holiday.
Very well organised. The Viator app tells you everything you need to know. Things happened as planned.
The worst. Avoid these scammers. They charged us $1450 and actually never showed up. No one answers the phone. Viator is currently trying to process a refund for us. We were stuck without going inside the sagrada familia.
There is walking and stairs involved. But the views of the architecture were amazing. Our guide Maria was excellent, very knowledgeable and patient (we had some participants of the tour who were not considerate of the others). Would definitely take another tour with her.
