Experts tours in and around Barcelona

Barcelona Guide Bureau (BGB) is a tour operator founded in 1990 by a group of local expert guides who wanted to perfect the tour services offered to tourists and travel agents. Since then we have steadily grown, have our own team of guides, highly efficient office staff, training programs, quality control and online booking.

BGB specializes in guided tours in and around Barcelona and we are known for our quality service and reliability. All our guides are local licensed experts and are friendly, interesting and considerate people who will make sure you have the best possible tour.

For example, the Gaudí Tour:

This tour shows the best of Gaudí, at different points of the city, in a coach and avoiding entrance queues. An absolute must for everybody who travels to Barcelona. Includes entrance tickets and guided tours of the two masterpieces of Gaudí's architecture, Park Güell and Sagrada Família, both World Heritage sites.

Antoni Gaudí, visionary architect during Barcelona's modernista (art nouveau) period early last century, graced Barcelona with nearly all his extraordinary and beautiful buildings. No less than 7 have been listed as World Heritage by UNESCO.

Passeig de Gràcia: This broad elegant avenue was built for and by the wealthy Barcelonians and they have never left; luxury and design shops line the street along with major banks and the stock exchange. Architectural details include modernist lampposts and Gaudí’s tiles for pavements and a myriad of grand buildings including two of Gaudí’s houses: Casa Batlló, and Casa Milà (façade).

Park Güell: Demonstration of how far ahead of his time Gaudí was, this residential suburb was financed by Eusebi Güell and meticulously planned by Gaudí with intertwining roads and footpaths, water catchment, market place and square, gardens and lodges. Only two houses were sold and eventually the Güell family sold it for a symbolic amount to the city as a park and allowing us all to benefit from this beautiful, world heritage site.

Sagrada Familia: The jewel in the crown of Gaudí’s works, the temple is a synthesis of his overall conception of architecture. The richness of detail and its significance need explaining in order to appreciate this fascinating and extraordinary building in full.