Barcelona & Gaudi. Regular Tour

Wow! This tour was a highlight of my trip! Though I am not an architect, designer or builder, I was looking for a more detailed educational experience about Gaudi and the context of his work before seeing other Gaudi and Modernist sites. Our multi-lingual tour guide Pia—an architect and professor—shared her deep knowledge in an accessible and engaging way. She was also in tune with the needs of our group on a hot day, and built in a break for beverages. She even extended the tour to make up for the lost time. Pia was over and above as a guide, and the tour content was fascinating. Highly recommend!

Hi, we took the Barcelona Architecture walk, and it was a collosus disaster. The guide Pia, was walking ahead basically talking to herself. Opon writting the company, they explained they had issues with speakers that day... Not only that, but even with the technical difficukties the guide to manage to convey racist and antisemitic views. Demand of refund from the company were declined with an explanation that they did have technical difficulties, and that racist views against Israelis are legit. I would steer away from this company and let them sink with their technical difficulties and bigot views.

Pia was an absolutely incredible guide. Incredibly knowledgeable and personable. The time flew by and I wish I could have kept learning from her. Giving the history of the city was a welcome touch. It did not feel like your typical tourist guided tour, but rather something special. I walked away with a renewed want for education, and an appreciation for architecture and Gaudi.

This was our third tour in Barcelona, and we were particularly interested in an architecture-focused tour, especially one centered around Antoni Gaudí. We were not disappointed. Our tour guide, Pía, was incredibly knowledgeable, given her background as an engineer and architect professor. She provided us with valuable insights and information not only about Gaudí’s architectural designs but also about the history of Barcelona’s urban planning. If you’re an architecture enthusiast, I highly recommend this tour. While some aspects may have gone over my head, the overall experience was incredibly informative.

Disappointing experience not because of the concept or the sites but rather the individual guide. An architecture and teacher, our guide was definitely knowledgeable and showed a solid passion for the subject matters of the tour - Barcelona and Gaudi. That said, she spent an inordinate amount of time expounding upon her heavily socialist perspective, how "Spain" was constantly disrespecting "Catalonia" and how anything bad was the result of "capitalists." Particularly noteworthy was when another guest of the tour pointed out to me how our guide had spent time complaining that coffee shops "should only charge 1.50 for a cup of coffee" but then later bemoaning how coffee shops don't pay living wages to the baristas. Comments about American women being backstabbers and American men just wanting "independence" from women seemed to reflect a trauma from her college years in the US. When she did find time to get around to talking about architecture, her insights were interesting and informative (though sometimes confusing). She had a helpful set of visuals with her and passionately spoke about technological advancements made in architecture over the years. Had she kept the OpEd out of the tour, this could have been a five star experience.

The tour departed on time, Pia was very educational and her tour informative. A great background from Roman times to modern day and a great look into the technical aspects of the featured locations and some great story telling about competitive architects too. A great baseline for understanding Gaudi before we visited the La Família Segrada. Well worth the time and the money and at a leisurely and relaxed pace. Thank you Pia!

Fantastic tour!! Guille is the BEST!! Guille is so knowledgable and an absolute delight! We toured the Sagrada Familia and Park Guell.

We thoroughly enjoyed our tour with Pia, who was not only knowledgeable, but insightful and friendly. It was a substantive and enjoyable 3-hour walk, jam packed with fun facts, background, some engineering, and valuable insights. Highly recommend!

What a great way to get to know a city! We had a wonderful morning tour with Rafa- a local architect. He gave lots of insight into Gaudi’s work but gave us a great overview of how the city works with social planning. We visited some inside courtyards and had a wonderful time wandering through the city. Rafe was friendly, knowledgeable and happy to answer all our questions.

Pia was a fabulous guide. So knowledgeable. I have recommended her to others and we hope to try her other adventures.