14 - Private Gaudi Tour Barcelona

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• Enjoy skip-the-line entrance to Gaudi’s renown buildings, including Sagrada Familia

• Explore his designs from his first commission to his masterpiece with an expert guide

• Revel in the luxury of a private tour with your own guide and chauffeured van

• Hear about Gaudi’s clever designs and how his inspiration came from Mother Nature

• See how he cleverly designed furniture and buildings that are functional and beautiful

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Liv Tours Private Gaudi Tour is the best way to explore the outstanding works of Barcelona’s most eccentric architects in depth with your own private tour guide. Certainly the most associated name with the Art Nouveau (modernisme as it is known locally) movement in Catalonia your guide will share with you the intricacies behind the world renown architectural genius.

You will see the exteriors of Gaudi’s most well known apartment buildings, Casa Batllo and la Pedrera before your private chauffeured van whisks you to Casa Vicens, the architect’s first commission and a home just recently opened to the public. You will enjoy the stunning views from Park Güell as the sun sets over the bustling Mediterranean city, as well as enjoying skip the line tickets to his masterpiece, la Sagrada Familia. With an expected completion date of 2026, you will be able to admire a 95% complete interior and a well underway exterior, and go to the heights to soak in the views across this vibrant city, all in the company of your VIP private guide.

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Your Private Gaudí Tour Barcelona starts in Paseo de Gracia, the still elegant avenue was the most fashionable address in Barcelona at the turn of the 20th century and where Gaudi left his mark by designing two very different apartment buildings for the city’s uber wealthy. The first building that you will admire with your private guide is the bluish hued façade of Casa Batllo. Designed and built right at the beginning of the 1900s, this is the building where Gaudi had his most artistic freedom and is based on local Catalan legend. Just a few blocks away is the stunning Casa Mila, which is known locally as la Pedrera - the stone quarry. Find out how it got this nickname and what made it a forerunner in architecture through the knowledge and lively commentary of your private guide.

Once you have taken your photos and are ready to move on your private luxury van will be there to pick you up and whisk you along to the newly restored Casa Vicens. This was a project completed by a very young Gaudi not too long after he had graduated from architectural school, to be a summer home for the wealthy Vicens family and was just recently opened to the public after being used as a private residence since it was built in 1885.

Then it is on the masterpiece, la Sagrada Familia Basilica, a project that Gaudi was commissioned to lead the same year he was designing Casa Vicens, 1883. With skip the line entrance tickets, you will be given priority to enter the most visited monument in Spain. This amazing feat of architecture takes up a complete city block with a storybook-like exterior showing the life of Jesus on Earth on one side and The Stations of the Cross on the other side and was designed to have a forest-like interior. The magic of the stained glass windows makes you feel like you are walking inside a color-filled forest. Once you have had your fill of this almost finished spectacular masterpiece you and your private guide will be chauffeured up into the hills of the city to visit Gaudi’s Park Güell, watching the sun set over the city.

The Park was one of Gaudi’s most expansive creations with 42 acres of land, which is now a public park. As your guide leads you through Park Guell, you’ll have the unique experience of walking through an entire community created by Gaudi, giving you the feeling that you’ve stepped inside his mind.

Originally designed by Gaudi for the industrialist, Eusebio Guell, at the turn of the 20th century.Gaudi was commissioned by Güell to create a community of exclusive houses, each with its own small garden, as well as a large public area. Guell’s vision of an upmarket gated neighborhood never came to fruition, so upon his death he left the park to the city with the stipulation that it should always be kept as a public park - lucky us!