Schedule
08:00am
Duration: 1h 30min
Rates
- Adult39,00€
- Junior (12-17 years)19,50€
- Children (under 12 years)Free
Do you want to visit Casa Mila before anyone else? Would you like to walk on the Warrior Rooftop at La Pedrera all on your own? Now you can do it, with the "La Pedrera Sunrise" guided tour.
Casa Mila wakes up every day and gets ready to welcome thousands of people who want to discover the secrets of this unique building.
First thing in the morning, while the preparations are being made to open the house to the public, the natural features in each area awaken: flowers, trees, marine animals... La Pedrera is a creation of nature that wakes with the first rays of sunlight.
We offer you a guided tour through the building before it opens to the public and in a small group. As well as discovering the different areas of the house, you will find out what inspired Antoni Gaudi to create this architectural treasure.
"La Pedrera Sunrise" is a guided tour in English including: the Warrior Rooftop, the Whale Attic with the Gaudí Exhibition, the Tenants’ Apartment, the Flower Courtyard and the Butterfly Courtyard as well as some areas that cannot be visited on the normal tour.
Do not miss this unique tour and be the first to visit La Pedrera.
You can also do this tour with guides in the following languages:
Korean: Book your tickets here.
Japanese: Book your tickets here.
Chinese: Book your tickets here.
*Visit might not coincide with sunrise
What will you see?
The Warrior Rooftop
A unique, unclassifiable work
This unique space on Casa Mila, charged with artistic and symbolic force, was designed to fulfil a functional role and bears no semblance to the architecture of its time. The astonishing set of architectural-sculptures placed here falls into three kinds of structures: stairwells, ventilation towers and chimneys. Some are covered with trencadís (ceramic fragments), while elements that are the less visible from the street are only roughcast-rendered and painted. The undulating balustrades conform to the shape of the façade, as Gaudi sought a harmonic solution between the rhythms of the façade and the finishings of the roof.
By virtue of its spectacular façade and its unique Roof-Terrace, Casa Mila is considered one of the most extraordinary buildings of the twentieth century.
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The façade
An architectural sculpture
La Pedrera (the stone quarry) is named after the spectacular stone façade, formed by three united façades that lead to Passeig de Gràcia, the chamfer and Carrer Provença. With 30 meters of height, the 84 meters of extension are distributed unevenly. The longest façade of Casa Mila is located on Carrer Provença, while the other two occupy 20 meters each. The set is unified by means of horizontal sequences that are placed between each of the plants. Starting with countless recycled elements and with great artistic freedom, Gaudi developed the wrought iron railings on the facades of Casa Mila as if they were pieces of abstract sculpture.
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The Flower and the Butterfly Courtyards
Living nature at the heart of the building
Antoni Gaudi innovated by joining the small ventilation courtyards in two large areas, in a spectacularly organic manner, which organised the floor plan and optimised light and ventilation. The façades of The Courtyards at Casa Mila are a veritable spectacle of forms, light and color. Color is lent by the murals that decorate them, mostly with floral motifs, which also adorn the ceilings and lateral walls of the two entrance lobbies and the main staircase, featuring various scenes with mythological references and polychromatic details.
Nature still lives in the heart of the building. A show of shapes, light and colors.
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The Whale Attic
Discover a brilliant architect in a magic space
To enter the attic of the Milà House is to enter a great whale, breathing and welcoming us. There you will be able to see the Gaudí exhibition, an interpretation centre introducing visitors to Gaudí’s life and work through models and drawings, objects and designs, photographs and videos. The exhibition is divided into seven areas, one of which is entirely given over La Pedrera.
The attic of the building, originally fitted out for a range of common services (including the laundry and the clothes-drying place), is made up of 270 catenary arches of various heights that support the Warrior Rooftop.
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The Tenants’ Apartment
100 years of a living monument
Located on the fourth floor of the building, the Pedrera Apartment occupies two dwellings. In the first, an audiovisual presents an overview of a key period in the history of Barcelona between the Tragic Week (1909) and the World Fair (1929). The second dwelling has been recreated as the apartment of bourgeois family in the first third of the twentieth century, entirely re-fitted with the original elements that made up an apartment of Casa Mila (door handles, doorknobs, mouldings, doors and tiling). To this end, the original use of each of the rooms has been maintained and decorated with period furniture, works of art, ornaments, fabrics and household accessories that place the apartment in the context of its time and show how it was lived in.
The Pedrera Apartment shows two aspects of Casa Mila: its architecture and how it was lived in.
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Gaudí Room and auditorium
Former garage
Gaudi projected the basement as a service area that could accommodate the garage, storage rooms and the heating machine room. In fact, in the first project for Casa Mila, in 1906, the architect already planned to use the basement as a parking lot. The old garages nowadays form the Auditorium (opened in 1994 as such) and the Gaudi Room, two spaces accessed by the ramp, projected for the access of vehicles, with an unevenness of 4,70 meters. 90 columns of iron, brick and stone hold the building from the basement floor.
With this visit you can see this space, which are not part of the regular visit to the building.
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