Spain · Architecture

Gaudi's Masterpieces in Barcelona: Quest Experience

2 Hours Round trip from Barcelona Easy pace

The journey

Trip highlights
  • 01 Self-guided city quest played through an app
  • 02 Solve puzzles to unlock the next location and story
  • 03 Explore Gaudí landmarks including Casa Batlló, Casa Milà, and Sagrada Família
  • 04 Discover architectural highlights along Passeig de Gràcia
  • 05 Learn about Gaudí and other influential artists and architects
  • 06 Play at your own pace with flexible start and break times
  • 07 Available 24/7 throughout the year
  • 08 Offline play with no internet connection needed

Discover Barcelona through a self-guided quest that blends sightseeing, storytelling, and puzzle-solving. Follow the app at your own pace as each challenge leads you to the next location, revealing the stories behind some of the city’s most remarkable architectural landmarks.

Along the way, explore highlights linked to Gaudí and other leading modernist architects, including Passeig de Gràcia, Casa Batlló, Casa Milà, Sagrada Família, and Hospital de Sant Pau. It’s a flexible way to experience the city center with the feel of a tour, an outdoor escape game, and a treasure hunt in one.

Follow the app at your own pace as each challenge leads you to the next location, revealing the stories behind some of the city’s most remarkable architectural landmarks.

From the itinerary

At a glance

What this trip includes

Duration 2 Hours
Tour type Private
Activity level Easy
Accommodation Not included
Transport Not included
Wheelchair access No
City Barcelona
Languages English, German, Italian, Spanish

Day by day

The itinerary

1
Day 01

The Comtal street is an urban road in the district of Old Town of Barcelona, Spain, which runs perpendicular between the Avenida de la Puerta of the Angel and Via Laietana. Of medieval origin, it is currently an essentially commercial street.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.The Tívoli theater is a performance hall in Barcelona ( Spain ) dedicated to theater and cinema. In some periods of its history, it has hosted opera and zarzuela performances, as well as musical works, even seeing the premiere of some important works.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.The structure of the building is made of reinforced concrete , which makes a feeling of uniformity. The façade is decorated with Galician granite and Montjuïc stone. In elevation, it has a clear influence of the Chicago School : the openings are distributed symmetrically throughout the facade and have a base along the entire ground floor; concentrates the only decoration on the main entrance.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.The gallery was founded and managed by the Symbolist painter and restorer Josep Dalmau I Rafel. The aim was to promote, import and export avant-garde artistic talent. Dalmau is credited for having launched avant-garde art in Spain.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.Casa Lleó Morera is a modernist building on Barcelona's Passeig de Gracia street, designed by the famous Catalan modernisme architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner. The work was ordered by Francesca Morera, who wanted to remodel the existing building on the site, Casa Rocamora. The construction started in 1902.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.The Casa Amatller is a remodelling of the architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch, carried out between 1898 and 1900. The house already existed, it was a building built in 1875 by the master builder Antoni Robert and known as Casa Martorell. A three-story, neoclassical-style building, typical of the Cerdà Plan.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.Originally, the building was built in 1877 by Emilio Sala Cortés (one of Gaudí's architecture professors), when there was still no electric light in Barcelona. In 1903 it was purchased by Mr Josep Batlló y Casanovas, a textile industrialist who owned several factories in Barcelona and a prominent businessman.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.Casa Mila (1906-1912) is a building designed by the architect Antoni Gaudi and commissioned by Pere Milà and Roser Segimon. The name, 'Casa Milà' comes from the fact that it was the new home of the Milà family. The couple occupied the main floor and rented out the other apartments.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.The Casa de les Punxes or Casa Terradas is a building designed by the Modernista architect Josep Puig i Cadafalch. Located in the intersection between the streets of Rosselló, Bruc and the Avinguda Diagonal in the Barcelona Eixample area.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.Currently, the Palau Macaya works to encourage collaborations and synergies between people, organisation, companies and government to foster a transfer of knowledge and innovative models that further the progress of society.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.This monumental basilica is known in Spanish as "el Templo Expiatorio de la Sagrada Familia", which literally translates to the "Expiatory Temple of the Sacred Family". Although the official starting date of work on the basilica is March 19, 1882, construction truly began over a year later on August 25, 1883.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.Building work on the new Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau began in 1909, and led to the construction of a new street that would connect the hospital with the church of the Sagrada Familia. This is how the Avinguda Gaudí came into being.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.The Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau in Barcelona is the oldest hospital in Spain. It was founded in 1401, after a pest plague and famine caused six medieval hospitals in Barcelona to merge and form the Hospital de la Santa Creu.

Here you will have to look around to find the answer to our challenge to advance to the new location and learn the story of this place.

The route

Where you'll travel

Tour route map
Round trip from Barcelona 1 city · 2 Hours

The fine print

Trip details

What's Included

  • Full flexibility: start at any hour, take a break at any time and resume later
  • This experience is permanently available, 24/7, every day of the year.
  • Play offline: you DON'T NEED an internet connection for this while exploring
  • Free for Kids

What's Not Included

  • A physical tour guide

Know before you go

  • STROLLER OR PRAM ACCESSIBLE
  • ANIMALS OR PETS ALLOWED
  • PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION NEARBY
  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • Infants must not sit on laps
  • Infant seats unavailable
  • - Unlock your city game in the Questo app using this link: [
  • - Download the Questo app using this link (it’s free): [
  • - Head to the starting point and enjoy your city game!

Logistics

Meeting & route

Meeting point
Barcelona, ES
Tour start
Barcelona, ES
Tour ends at the same location as the start point.
End of the journey

Your 2 hours finish where they began, in Barcelona.

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