For Travellers with Design on their Minds
ARCHITECTURE
IN BARCELONA
Squares, promenades, the mediterranean; discover architecture in Barcelona on foot.
DESIGN & CRAFT
IN BARCELONA
Barcelona’s shops, showrooms, and flea markets unearth special treasures for trend hunters and holiday shoppers, if you know where to look…
CUSTOM TOURS & CONSULTANCY
Barcelona Design Tours can put together a personalised experience in response to your specific requirements.
Consuming
Architecture
Barcelona is renowned for its cuisine and its architecture. With Consuming Architecture we bring the two together in a feast for the senses.
Artisan
Shopping
Barcelona’s old town is living history. This unique tour aims to tell it in a fun and original way – through its historic shops.
Architecture in Barcelona
Award-winning design hotels, art nouveau-era apartment buildings and 21st century skyscrapers built on a delightful network of promenades, parks and squares. From the moment you step off the plane at El Prat airport, it’s obvious that the city is obsessed with design, architecture and style.
Barcelona Design Tours reveals the city’s long-term love affair with architecture. Our private and group tours give insight to the enduring legacy of Gaudí and modernisme – Barcelona’s signature architectural style – and lead you to the new urban developments, the revamped waterfront and beaches, and inner-city makeovers that make Barcelona so endlessly inspiring.
Custom tours & Consultancy
The rich architectural and design heritage of Barcelona is a living one that is constantly expanding and shifting. Our job is to explain and contextualise this heritage for both newcomers and repeat visitors – in a fun and visual way! Whether you are a group of friends visiting Barcelona for the first time, or perhaps you are a class of students with a particular educational programme in mind, or on corporate get-away, Barcelona Design Tours can put together a personalised experience in response to your specific requirements. Over the decades our guides have built up a network of contacts which allow us to access places and people that provide insight and inspiration.
Design & Craft in Barcelona
Barcelona’s modern art reads like a who’s who of the 20th Century masters Picasso, Miró, Dalí and Tapies still inspire the city today. Led by experts and curators, Barcelona Design Tours can take you inside the studios and galleries of the city’s emerging art districts, and take you to the graffiti and street art hot spots.
Design, from smart street furniture to spectacular modern interiors, is part of Barcelona’s DNA. On our private and group walking tours, we will introduce you to the city’s creative side in workshops, showrooms, restaurants and hotel rooftops, focusing on the furniture, objects and projects that are uniquely MADE IN SPAIN.
Artisan Shopping
Barcelona’s old town is living history. This unique tour aims to tell it in a fun and original way – through its historic shops.
Though gentrification and rising rents have taken their toll, the city’s gothic quarter still has plenty of traditional retail treasures. We take you on a magical mystery tour of the area’s stone-walled squares and hidden cul-de-sacs to discover antiquarian booksellers, ancient herb shops, and art nouveau-style boutiques trading in handmade fans, candles and espadrilles.
Along the way you learn about Barcelona’s medieval history, a metropolis once so productive that it was said a blind man could navigate his way around following the sounds of artisans toiling away at metal, glass and leather. Today, we guide you to these unique establishments. On this tour, retail therapy takes on a much deeper meaning as you visit monuments to the shopping dynasties that keep the Catalan craft traditions alive.
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