Palau Güell Tickets
Palau Güell Entry Ticket: Skip the line into Gaudí’s first major commission, then climb straight to the 20 mosaic chimneys on the roof.
Best combo bundles
Pairing with another Gaudí site works out cheaper than booking each ticket separately, and turns two scattered stops into one Gaudí day instead of two separate trips across the city.
Every bundle below includes the same Palau Güell entry: skip-the-line admission, full building access including the rooftop, and the audio guide. Here’s what each add-on brings:
Highlights
Tickets & Prices
The standard Palau Güell tickets include a self-guided audio tour in 13 languages, delivered through an app on your phone. Entry covers every visitable room, the basement stables, the south courtyard, and the rooftop terrace with its 20 chimneys.
If you’re already planning to see other Gaudí houses, the combo bundles work out cheaper than buying each entry separately. Available combos:
- Casa Batlló + Palau Güell. Trace Gaudí from his sober early period at Palau Güell to the wave-line Casa Batlló built fifteen years later.
- Casa Milà (La Pedrera) + Palau Güell. Two famous Gaudí rooftops in one day. The trencadís chimneys he experimented with at Palau Güell turn up again at La Pedrera, twenty years on.
- Park Güell + Palau Güell. The Güell family’s two homes. The city palace they lived in first, and the hillside park they moved to later.
- Sagrada Família + Palau Güell. Gaudí’s bookends. The first major commission he ever received, paired with the basilica he worked on until his death.
- Torre Bellesguard + Palau Güell. Two of Gaudí’s quieter buildings, both well off the Eixample queue circuit.
- Barcelona hop-on hop-off bus + Palau Güell. The bus loop covers the Eixample Gaudí route. Palau Güell is the central El Raval stop, walkable from La Rambla.
The box office is next door and closes an hour before the palace itself.
What’s included
Your ticket covers entry, the audio guide app, and access to:
- Ground-floor entrance hall (the old coach house)
- Basement stables
- Main floor (hall of intimates, central hall, terraces)
- Family quarters (Isabel López’s bedroom, children’s bedrooms)
- South courtyard
- Rooftop terrace with the 20 trencadís chimneys
Note: rooftop access is weather-dependent. See Insider Tips below for what to watch for.
Plan Your Visit
| Period | Opening Hours | Last Entry |
|---|---|---|
| Summer (April–October) | 10:00 – 20:00 | 19:00 |
| Winter (November–March) | 10:00 – 17:30 | 16:30 |
Closed: non-holiday Mondays, 25 and 26 December, 1 and 6 January, and the last week of January for upkeep
The entrance is on the south side of the street, in the building with the parabolic-arch wrought-iron gates.
Palau Guell
Carrer Nou de la Rambla, 3-5, Ciutat Vella, 08001 Barcelona, Spain · Google Maps
- Lift sized for a wheelchair (60 cm door width, 78 cm depth)
- Wheelchair loan with chairs sized to the lift
- Staff assistance for transfers
- Catalan (LSC) and Spanish (LSE) sign-language video guides
- Audio description for blind and partially sighted visitors
- Easy-reading guides in Catalan, Spanish, and English
- Baby changing station, adapted WC, baby-carrier loan on the ground floor
What to See & Do
Palau Güell looks nothing like the Casa Batlló down the street. Built between 1886 and 1890, it’s Gaudí’s earliest major commission, and the interior is darker and more sober than his later work. Dark wood. Grey marble. A glass-domed central hall that pulls in less light than you expect.
The colour arrives upstairs.
The coach house and the basement stables
jeewee/DepositphotosYou walk in through the same wrought-iron gates the Güell family’s carriages used. The entrance hall on the ground floor was the coach house. Look up. The ceiling is patterned with floral tiles that don’t fit any of the room’s other furnishings, a small surprise Gaudí allowed himself in what was meant to be a working space.
A ramp leads down to the basement, where the horses were stabled. The pillars here have a mushroom-shaped quality that you’ll see again decades later at the Sagrada Família crypt. He was 35 when he designed this palace. He was working out the ideas he would spend the next 40 years refining.
The main floor: hall of intimates to the central hall
mitzo_bs/DepositphotosClimb the staircase. The window at the top is stained glass in the four red-and-yellow stripes of the Catalan flag.
The audio guide leads you through the antechamber, then into the hall of intimates. The family’s daughters played the piano here. The bay window next to it was a smoking room, and the curved bench that fits the window’s shape was designed by Gaudí, along with the shade system he invented for the glass.
A side corridor opens onto a small terrace where you suddenly see ordinary central Barcelona buildings around you. It is a jarring reset. Step back inside and you reach the billiard room, which doubled as the daughters’ painting studio.
The route winds through the hall of lost steps and the visitors’ hall, with its red walls and lotus-leaf stained glass, before opening into the central hall. This is the room. A dome rises overhead. Hidden in the dome are small openings that held lanterns at night, so the ceiling above guests during a party looked like a starlit sky. A gold chapel stands against one wall. An organ stands in the corner, and a recording plays every few minutes during opening hours.
The family quarters and the view of the dome
mitzo_bs/DepositphotosUp another flight, or use the lift, to reach the family’s private rooms. From here you can look down into the central hall and see the dome from above.
The bedroom of Isabel López, Eusebi Güell’s wife, is empty of furniture, though the walls hold black-and-white photographs of how it looked in her time. The children’s bedrooms have been turned into a permanent exhibition of period furniture, some pieces original to the family, others representative of the wider Catalan modernist period.
The rooftop chimneys
mitzo_bs/DepositphotosThe final climb is the one to come for. Twenty chimneys spread across the roof terrace, each one different, each one sheathed in trencadís mosaic of broken ceramic, marble, and glass. One is patterned in yellow and black diamonds. Another is shaped like a bunch of green grapes. A 50-foot stone spire rises out of the centre, the same spire that covers the dome you stood under two floors below.
On a sunny morning the colours read at full saturation. On grey winter afternoons the chimneys look almost monochrome and the spire takes over as the focal point. The roof is where the audio guide ends.
Insider Tips
FAQs
How long does the Palau Güell visit take?
Around two hours.
Is the audio guide good?
Yes. The commentary is room-by-room, in 13 languages including Catalan, Chinese, Galician, Basque, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Korean, Dutch, and English. Bring your own headphones.
Is Palau Güell wheelchair accessible?
Yes. See Accessibility for the full list of services.
Is it kid-friendly?
The basement stables and the rooftop chimneys are the parts kids notice. Younger children may not have the patience for the audio guide’s full commentary on the main floor.
How does Palau Güell compare to Casa Batlló and Casa Milà?
Less crowded, and easier to book on short notice. Casa Batlló and Casa Milà sit on Passeig de Gràcia and dominate the Eixample bus-tour route. Palau Güell is tucked off La Rambla in El Raval, so foot traffic is lighter.
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