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La Pedrera (Casa Milà)
How to visit Gaudí's La Pedrera in Barcelona: which ticket to book, day vs night, and whether the rooftop is worth the price.
Where
Barcelona, Spain
Opening hours
Day visits run roughly 09:00–20:30 from early March to early November and 09:00–18:30 in winter; the Night Experience starts after the day closes. Closed a few specific dates (e.g. 25 December). Confirm your date on lapedrera.com when you book.
Tickets
From about €25 for the Essential self-guided ticket (videoguide included); the Open Date flexible ticket is around €45; the Night Experience with rooftop projections is about €39.50; the early Sunrise guided visit is about €39.50. Under-12s free; child rate roughly €12.50.
Time needed
About 1.5 hours for the standard courtyards–attic–rooftop circuit; allow 2 hours if you linger on the roof or the day is busy.
In short
Visiting La Pedrera (Casa Milà)
La Pedrera is Gaudí's wave-fronted apartment block on Passeig de Gràcia, and the bit worth paying for is the roof — 30 chimneys shaped like helmeted warriors looking out over the Eixample. Book a timed ticket online before you go: the Essential self-guided entry starts at €25 and the courtyards-attic-rooftop route takes about 1.5 hours. Pick a 9am slot or after 4pm to dodge the worst crush, and decide early whether you want the daytime visit or the separate Night Experience light show.
How to visit, and which ticket
La Pedrera — officially Casa Milà — is the limestone apartment block Gaudí wrapped in a rippling wave of stone on Passeig de Gràcia, a few minutes from Diagonal metro (lines L3 and L5, right outside the door). Locals nicknamed it “the quarry” because the facade looked like rough-hewn rock, and four of the apartments are still lived in today. The visit takes you up through the courtyards, into a recreated 1900s flat, on to the brick-arched attic that feels like standing inside a whale’s ribcage, and finally out onto the roof.
Book the Essential self-guided ticket online before you go — it starts at around €25 and includes the videoguide, and the door price is a euro or two more for the same thing. In spring through autumn the timed slots routinely sell out by late morning, so don’t plan to walk up. Under-12s go free. The pricier Open Date ticket (around €45) only earns its keep if your plans are genuinely uncertain — otherwise pick a fixed slot and save the difference.
Day or night, and is it worth it?
The roof is the reason to come: thirty chimneys shaped like helmeted warriors, looking out over the Eixample grid. Go at the 9am opening or after 4pm to miss the midday coach crush, and budget about an hour and a half for the whole circuit. The separate Night Experience (around €39.50) is a different proposition — it skips the apartment, projects a light-and-sound show onto the chimneys, and ends with a glass of cava under the stars. It’s calmer and more theatrical, but you see far less of the actual building, so treat it as an evening event rather than the main visit.
La Pedrera earns its ticket on the rooftop alone, which no other Gaudí site matches. But it sits a short walk from Casa Batlló on the same street, and doing both back to back is Gaudí-house overload. If you’re choosing one, pick Casa Batlló for the kaleidoscopic interior and La Pedrera for the roof — then space the other big Gaudí sights, like the Sagrada Família or Park Güell, across different days.
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