Casa Batlló
Casa Batlló
Casa Batlló
the house of the dragon
One of the most beautiful and special houses of the master architect Antoni Gaudí, located directly on the boulevard Passeig de Gràcia.
Opening hours: Monday – Sunday, 9.00 a.m. – 10.00 p.m
You can find out what you need to know to visit Casa Batlló and which of the many online tickets is right for you here!
Should it be VIP access for EUR 45 (gold).
or the Basic Ticket for EUR 35 (blue)?
My Rating:
The positives:
A great building with a gorgeous terrace on the roof! A Must-See for Gaudí fans or architects! 10 D Experience + Audio guide included in the price.
The negatives:
EUR 35 for the cheapest or EUR 45 for the most expensive ticket is A LOT! Too much I think...
The agency-price is unfortunately the on-site price...
Top Tip:
Very long queues in summer, so I recommend buying an Online-ticket. The EUR 35 Ticket should be fine in winter (without Skip the line).
Last Modified: 12.01.2024 | Céline
Casa Batlló
Tickets
| Casa Batlló 10 D Tickets | Price | Information | Buy Ticket |
|---|---|---|---|
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Golden Ticket |
EUR 45 | 10D Experience, audio guide + all new products included + flexible date change + skip the line + drink on the terrace + free cancellation | Buy Ticket |
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Blue Ticket |
EUR 35 | 10D Experience, audio guide + all novelties included | Buy Ticket |
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Silver Ticket |
EUR 43 | 10D Experience, audio guide + all new products included + flexible date change | Buy Ticket |
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HIGHLIGHT-PASS |
EUR 92 | Best of Barcelona: Admission Sagrada Familia + Admission Casa Batlló + Admission Park Güell + Audio guide app + 10% discount | Buy Ticket |
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3 Gaudí Houses |
EUR 85 |
Casa Batllo (Blue Ticket) + Pedrera with audio guide + skip the line Casa Vicens with Audioguide |
Buy Ticket |
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Combi-Ticket |
EUR 63 | Admission Casa Batlló + Admission Pedrera | Buy Ticket |
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Hop Bus + Casa Batlló |
EUR 59.40 | Admission Casa Batlló + 1 day on the Hop Bus | Buy Ticket |
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Guided Tour |
EUR 87 | Private tour in English, the more people the cheaper, duration: 2 hours | Book Tour |
The details
at a glance
Prices
Blue ticket: EUR 31
EUR 25 for children aged 13–17 years
EUR 28 for senior citizens over the age of 65
Audio guide included, no skip the line
Prices
Blue ticket: EUR 31
EUR 25 for children aged 13–17 years
EUR 28 for senior citizens over the age of 65
Audio guide included, no skip the line
Prices
Silver ticket: EUR 39
EUR 33 for children (13–17 years)
EUR 36 for senior citizens over 65
Audio guide included, no skip the line, date change possible
Golden ticket: EUR 41
EUR 35 for children (13–17 years)
EUR 38 for senior citizens over 65
Skip the line, audio guide, free cancellation, date change possible, drink on the terrace
free for children under the age of 13
Prices on site + Agencies: EUR 4 on top + waiting time
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Casa Batlló
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What is there
to see?
The façade will cast a spell on you… What are the balconies made of, are those masks? Or are they skulls? On the inside, the attention to detail will fascinate you – from one room to the next. Antoni Gaudí was really able to let off steam here!
You can visit the most important rooms in the house. The “Beletage”, where the Batlló family lived, the courtyard, the upper floor, and the terrace on the roof are all open to visitors. The individual apartments are still inhabited by regular tenants, so those are off limits. Instead, have a look at the blue stairwell – the source of light – and other technical details.
10 D Experience
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new staircase
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New Audio Guide
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A bit of History
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NEW SINCE 2021!
10D EXPERIENCE
Casa Batlló reopened in the spring of 2021 with some new tricks up its sleeve. We obviously didn’t waste any time in visiting the new-and-improved Casa Batlló to see what had changed.
The 10D experience is new, but that’s not all! For one thing, the price has gone up by ten whole euros (one euro for every D in the 10D experience, perhaps?). And it was pricey enough as it was! So is it worth a visit? Is the price over the top? Keep reading to find out our verdict!
New entrance area
The building front and entrance area are now completely different. The three ticket windows have been replaced by one entrance. Of course, you can still buy your tickets there.
A new foyer has appeared as if by magic and it looks so much smarter. You can even access the bookshop here now without buying a ticket – that didn’t used to be possible because it wasn’t on the ground floor before.
The old entrance is closed off and your visit starts in the basement now. You turn right after your tickets have been checked and head down a dark staircase artfully decorated with chains (more on that later). All of a sudden you find yourself…
10D: Part 1 – the Gaudí Dome
…immersed in the artist’s world in the Gaudí Dome. The man himself (as a child) is sitting at (more like slumped over) his desk, thinking and dreaming about nature. That desk is surrounded and almost taken over by things from the natural world. Projections of mushrooms, tree trunks and all sorts flicker around the room as the light changes from green to purple to red and you take in the scene from a slowly rotating turntable. A “ok-way” to start your visit to Casa Batlló.
Once you’ve stepped off the turntable, you’ll be given one of the smart new audio guides. We’ll come back to those later too.
10D: Part 2 – the Gaudí Cube
The highlight of the 10D Experience awaits at the end of your tour of Casa Batlló – the Gaudí Cube.
You hand your audio guide in and… a man, a chef to be precise, approaches you. Now what could he possibly want? He’s holding a plate full of tiny flowers and a pair of tweezers. He did tell me what the flowers were but I can never remember Latin botanical names… Sorry! Obviously nobody forces you to put the flowers in your mouth, but I took one for the team. And it was… interesting! Kind of tangy and not at the same time. Overall, it wasn’t a pleasant taste. But that’s taste ticked off as one of the senses stimulated as part of the 10D experience!
With a delightful aftertaste lingering in your mouth, it’s time to enter the Cube. At a guess, I’d say it’s 10 x 10 x 2 metres. There is a warning at this point that this part of the tour isn’t suitable if you’re claustrophobic, epileptic or pregnant. The space is unusual and the show inside is kind of crazy too… Images appear erratically on the walls, floor and ceiling, getting faster and faster. So, yes, pay attention to that warning if it applies to you!
What’s inside?
Artist Refik Anadol’s concept was to bring the world inside Gaudí’s head to life with artificial intelligence. And some of the sequences do just that. You can see exactly what he was trying to achieve when the structure of the Sagrada Família flashes up and images of thick roots remind you instantly of Park Güell or Casa Batlló itself.
But then there are some sequences that’ll leave you scratching your head and wondering how the images passing by at lightning speed by are supposed to reflect Gaudí’s artistic genius.
The show is pretty short – a few minutes or so (I couldn’t possibly give you a more accurate estimate than that). So I decided to stay put and watch it all again once it was over…
My verdict? If the show was designed to reflect the fact that Gaudí’s head was bursting with all kinds of images and ideas, we can safely say it did the job. Sure, it’s (another) fancy digital feature, but I have a sneaking suspicion that Casa Batlló really just wanted to have something new to show off to the press and a younger audience of Instagrammers and wasn’t so bothered about how it got there.
new
ARTISTIC STAIRCASE
I don’t know if we have the pandemic to thank for this change or if it had already been planned, but I approve!
Spreading out visitors at Casa Batlló can only be a sensible move – with or without a pandemic! And so another staircase has been added that provides an alternative route to the Cube for anyone who has visited the house and terrace. As you can imagine, though, this is no normal staircase. Architect Kengo Kuma and Chesneys Design Studio teamed up to create something special starring aluminium chains.
The chains are hung up like curtains, starting off small and light at the top of the staircase and getting thicker, darker and longer as you go down.
The design by Japanese artist Kengo Kuma is a homage to Gaudí’s use of light inside Casa Batlló, which really comes into its own on his beautiful blue staircase. Gaudí’s tiles look lighter or darker there and here the curtains of aluminium chains capture the light like fishing nets, giving it nuance by reflecting the shine, silhouettes and shifting shadows.
This new feature is practical and pretty spectacular.
NEW
SMART AUDIO GUIDE
And now it’s time to talk about the final new feature – the smart audio guide.
Last time I was here, I thought the video guide was excellent, as it gave you an insight into the furniture that would have been in the rooms. That option isn’t available at the moment (although it is apparently coming back).
This time, we were handed headphones that had been sterilised with neon light. I found them a bit too tight, but I’m sure it would have been possible to adjust them if I didn’t have my hands full already!
The best bit? You don’t have to enter any numbers! The audio guide just starts automatically when you enter a room or reach another checkpoint. How handy is that? And you don’t have to worry about some bulky device with a keypad bashing against your stomach.
This smart audio tour wasn’t the only clever use of technology we came across. You can actually spot one of the new digital features right at the beginning… Look out for the seahorse by the door! And don’t forget to take a closer look at the picture frames when you head up to the first floor for a better idea of life at Casa Batlló.
Summery
THE NEW CASA BATLLÓ
Casa Batlló promises all kinds of fun for a price. Did you know it’s one of the most expensive attractions in Barcelona alongside Camp Nou and the Sagrada Família? Whilst I would be willing to pay just about any price to visit the Sagrada Família, I do not feel the same about Casa Batlló. These places are very different, after all. The Sagrada Família is a basilica that is very much still being built. The Casa Batlló is a finished building and you can’t even access it all since there are offices and people living here. Entry used to cost EUR 20, but now the most expensive ticket is a whopping EUR 45.
Don’t get me wrong – Casa Batlló is a wonderful place and well worth a visit (especially now that all these smart digital features have been added). It’s just that the price is a bit over the top.
If you want to break down the price, I would say that the Blue Ticket at EUR 35 is more than sufficient. Unless you really need the option of free cancellation that you get with the Gold Ticket. You don’t need any of the extra benefits. The good news is that the 10D Experience and the audio guide are always included in the ticket price.
The updates are nice and they do add something to the experience, but: please try not to forget what Casa Batlló is really all about. That means admiring the house rather than just heading straight for the cool new photo opportunities. Gaudí was a true artist. Don’t miss a single detail and remember to take in the materials that were worked to absolute perfection.
Casa Batlló
A bit of history
The building known as the „Casa Batlló“ was built by a teacher of Gaudí’s (Emilio Salas Cortés) in 1877 and purchased by the Batlló family in 1900. The Batlló family was very well known in Barcelona. He – Josef Batlló – was in the textile industry and she – Amàlia Godó Belaunzarán – was a member of the family who founded the city’s most popular newspaper: La Vanguardia. They were both open to the unusual and innovation, and they commissioned Gaudí to make some changes to the house in 1904, with no limits to his creativity.
The work was completed in 1906, and now the building is one of the most iconic structures in the entire city. Gaudí gave the house an original façade intended to inspire the imagination. He achieved this by re-shaping the old façade into a wavy kind of shape and decorating it with a mosaic of pottery and glass. Many of the building’s details are made up of organic structures, a typical sign of Gaudí architecture.
Up until the 1950s, the Batlló family lived in the Beletage.
As of 2002, the Beletage is open to visitors. Since 2004, the upper floor and the roof may be visited as well. In 2005, the Casa Batlló was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Official website of Casa Batlló (EN): casabatllo.es
Text rights: Céline Mülich, 2013 – 2024
Image rights: All rights reserved, Casa Batlló S.L., images: © Céline Mülich, 2013 – 2024
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