La Pedrera (Casa Milà): free audio guide, hours and tickets

Have you ever felt the call of a place that seems to whisper stories and secrets in every corner? Do you want to discover a building that is not just architecture, but petrified poetry, where every stone has a story to tell? Casa Milà, a masterpiece of Catalan modernism, invites you to get lost in its curves, to explore its secrets and to live an experience that transcends time. But are you really ready to discover all that “La Pedrera” has to offer? There is a voice that will guide you, an audio guide that will take you by the hand through this labyrinth of sculpted dreams. Let yourself be seduced, listen and marvel at the stories and anecdotes that Casa Milà has in store just for you.

Some points of interest described in the Casa Milà (La Pedrera) Audioguide:

What the audio guide tells you

Our free audio guide takes you from the street to the rooftop in about 6 minutes, and it plays straight from this page. After the story of its name and its dates, it looks at the façade, a curtain wall of more than 6,000 stone blocks that holds nothing up, and explains what carries La Pedrera instead: stone pillars and solid brick, with no load-bearing walls.

From there it goes into the Flower and Butterfly courtyards and the tapestry-like murals overseen by Aleix Clapés, the garage in the basement, the Tenants’ Apartment furnished as in 1911 and the attic under its 270 brick arches. It ends among the stairwells, ventilation towers and chimneys of the rooftop, at the small arch that frames the Sagrada Família.

What you see inside La Pedrera, from the courtyards to the rooftop

The standard visit covers 4 areas — the 2 courtyards, the Tenants’ Apartment, the attic and the rooftop — across 4,500 m² on 5 floors, and it takes 1 hour to 1 hour 30 minutes. Gaudí built it between 1906 and 1912 for Pere Milà and Rosario Segimon, and it was his last civil work.

Start outside. The façade carries no weight: it is a curtain wall of more than 6,000 stone blocks hung on the structure, which is why the stone can ripple, and the ironwork of its 32 balconies was forged from scrap iron, bars and chains.

The 2 courtyards

Gaudí built 2 large courtyards so that every flat gets light and air. The Flower Courtyard, on Passeig de Gràcia, was the owners’ entrance, with a grand staircase and murals overseen by Aleix Clapés that imitate tapestries — the love story of Vertumnus and Pomona, from Ovid. The Butterfly Courtyard opens onto Carrer de Provença.

The attic and its 270 arches

To keep weight off the building, Gaudí raised the attic on 270 brick catenary arches that stand without buttresses. It held the communal laundry and the lift machinery, and worked as an insulating chamber: windows open in summer, closed in winter. Today it houses the exhibition on Gaudí’s life and work, with models, plans and videos.

The rooftop

Everything on the rooftop has a job. There are 6 stairwell exits, each 7 metres tall with a spiral staircase inside; 2 ventilation towers of 5 metres that renewed the air of the attic; and 29 chimneys of 4 metres, flues of the old coal-fired heating, standing alone or in groups of 2, 5 or 7. Look for the only group of chimneys clad in trencadís: its mosaic is made from fragments of dark green champagne bottles.

The Tenants’ Apartment

On the 4th floor, a flat furnished as a Barcelona family lived in 1911 shows the details Gaudí designed down to the hand: plaster mouldings of shells, flowers and ribbons around the doors, door handles shaped to the grip, and ceilings in relief that follow the curves of the building.

Our free audio guide and the official videoguide

The Essential and Sunset tickets include the official videoguide in 11 languages. Ours does a different job: you can listen to it right now, before you buy a ticket, and decide where you want to linger. It is free and it plays in your browser, with nothing to download.

La Pedrera tickets in 2026: day, sunset, night or sunrise

An adult La Pedrera Essential ticket costs €29 online, and the Sunset ticket, from 17:30, costs €25. Both are self-guided and cover the same 4 areas; children up to 11 go in free. These are the official online prices on 30 September 2026, from the La Pedrera ticket page; some tickets cost more at the box office.

• La Pedrera Essential — €29; €14.50 for ages 12 to 17; €22 for visitors over 65, students and visitors with a disability of 33% or more. Published times 9:00–17:30, last entry 17:15.
• La Pedrera Sunset — €25; €12.50 for ages 12 to 17; €19 reduced. Published times 17:30–20:30, last entry 19:00. The visit may not match the exact moment of sunset.
• La Pedrera Night Experience — €39.50; €19 for ages 12 to 17. A guided tour of 1 hour 20 minutes in Catalan, Spanish, English or Chinese, ending on the rooftop with a video-mapping show and a glass of cava. Sessions run 20:40–22:20 until 1 November 2026, 19:00–23:00 from 2 November 2026 to 25 February 2027, and 21:00–23:00 from 26 December 2026 to 3 January 2027.
• La Pedrera Sunrise — €39.50; €19 for ages 12 to 17. A guided tour in English or Chinese at 8:00, before the doors open to the public, finishing on the rooftop.

Worth knowing before you buy

• No refunds and no changes once you have paid. The €1.90 flexibility option, added at checkout, allows 1 change of date or time per booking, requested before the day of the visit.
• Rain closes the rooftop. In that case the visit can be moved to another date, as long as your ticket has not been scanned — so decide before you go in.
• Backpacks go on your front or in the free lockers on the ground floor. No food, no drinks and no flash.

Opening hours and the best time to go (2026–27)

Until 1 November 2026, La Pedrera opens every day, public holidays included, 9:00–20:30; from 2 November 2026 to 25 February 2027, 9:00–18:30. Over Christmas, from 26 December 2026 to 3 January 2027, it goes back to 9:00–20:30, except on 1 January 2027, when it opens at 11:00. It is closed on 25 December 2026 and from 11 to 17 January 2027. These are the general hours on the official practical information page, read on 30 September 2026; the exact slot for each ticket appears when you book.

• Pick a dry day. The rooftop is the heart of the visit and it closes when it rains.
• Late afternoon is the calm option. The Sunset ticket is €4 cheaper than the daytime one, and the low light on the rooftop is the best of the day.
• Book the Night Experience early. Sessions are guided and limited, and La Pedrera itself says the show sells out every night.

Getting there and accessibility

La Pedrera stands at Passeig de Gràcia 92, on the corner with Carrer de Provença, in the Eixample. The nearest stations are Diagonal, on metro lines 3 and 5, and Provença–La Pedrera on the FGC trains; Renfe trains stop at Passeig de Gràcia, and buses V15, V17, H8, H10, 6, 7, 22, 24, 33 and 34 pass nearby. The Passeig de Gràcia–La Pedrera car park is close by.

• Priority access, no queue. Visitors with a disability can come on any day and at any time, tell the staff on arrival and buy and go in without waiting, through the main entrance at Passeig de Gràcia 92.
• Step-free except the rooftop and the mezzanine. Lifts and ramps link the floors, and the courtyards, the apartment and the attic have no obstacles; wheelchairs can be up to 63 cm wide. The rooftop is too uneven for wheelchairs, but a platform at the lift exit gives a view over it. Wheelchairs are lent free of charge, booking ahead at accessibilitat@fclp.cat.
• Sensory resources: a model of the building and tactile maps in Braille on every floor of the visit, and a videoguide with subtitles or in Catalan and Spanish Sign Language, free at the videoguide desk.
• Tickets: €22 (Sunset €19) with a disability of 33% or more, free from 65%, and €14.50 for a companion. Assistance dogs can go everywhere on the visit. Details on the official accessibility page.

Nearby, with their own free audio guides

Casa Milà is not the only Gaudí house on this street. It stands at Passeig de Gràcia 92; walk about 540 metres down the same pavement towards Plaça de Catalunya — 7 minutes — and at number 43 you reach Casa Batlló, the earlier of the two, the one with the bone-shaped balconies and the scaled roof, which Gaudí remodelled for a different Barcelona family before he began La Pedrera. It has its own free audio guide on this site, so the two houses fit into one morning without paying for a guide twice.

La Pedrera became a UNESCO World Heritage Site on 2 November 1984, together with Park Güell: take metro line 3 from Diagonal to Lesseps and walk about 20 minutes uphill to the park. The same line stops at Fontana for Casa Vicens, Gaudí’s first major house. Line 5 runs from Diagonal to Sagrada Família station, at the foot of the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia — the building that one of the rooftop arches frames.

Free audio guidePark Güell audio guide: free, hours and tickets
Free audio guideCasa Vicens
Free audio guideSagrada Familia

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