The main facade of Casa Batlló on Passeig de Gràcia in daylight, with its wavy stone balconies, blue-green mosaic wall and tiled roof

Barcelona · Passeig de Gràcia 43 · Gaudí's most colourful house

Casa Batlló: tickets, hours and what to see

Gaudí turned an ordinary building into a house of waves, bones and scales. Here is how to choose your ticket, when to go and how to get there.

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In short

Casa Batlló is visited with a ticket for a fixed time slot. You choose the day and the hour when you book, and you have 15 minutes after the start of your slot to get in. Arrive on time: entry before your slot is not allowed.
The visit takes about an hour and a quarter. It is open every day of the year, from the morning until the evening, and the last entry for the standard visit is in the late afternoon.
The four main tickets are four steps up the same ladder. Blue is the house with an audio guide, Silver adds the roof terrace, Gold adds the private rooms of the Batlló family and an AR tablet, and Platinum is the most complete.
Short on time? Blue is enough to see the house. Want the roof, the famous dragon's back? Choose Silver. Want the rooms most visitors never see? Choose Gold.

The facade: a wall like a pond of colour

From Passeig de Gràcia you see a facade that seems to move. The wall is covered in pieces of glass and ceramic in blue, green and ochre, and the balconies look like masks. The slim stone columns below look like bones, and that is how the house got its nickname, the House of Bones.

The main floor: ceilings that swirl

The main floor is the heart of the house. A large window opens onto Passeig de Gràcia like a balcony seat, the oak doors have coloured glass, and the plaster ceiling twists in waves. Nothing here is a straight line.

The light well: blue that fades as it falls

The central light well of Casa Batlló, its walls covered in tiles that shade from deep blue at the top to paler blue below, with the skylight above

At the centre of the house a tall light well brings daylight down to every floor. Its tiles are deep blue at the top and paler towards the bottom, so the light spreads evenly. The wooden staircase in the atrium lets you watch the colour change as you climb.

The attic: sixty white arches

The white parabolic arches of the attic of Casa Batlló, a row of smooth catenary vaults like the ribcage of an animal

Under the roof, the attic was a service area for the tenants, with laundry and storage rooms. Today it is a row of sixty white arches that looks like the ribs of a large animal.

The dragon's back: the roof terrace

On top of the house the roof rises in scales, like the back of an animal, and four groups of colourful chimneys stand along it. A tower with a four-armed cross points to the sky. Many people read the roof as a dragon pierced by a sword, an old Catalan legend. The terrace is included from the Silver ticket upwards.

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