Gaudi’s Parc Guell is located on Carmel Hill in the Gràcia district of Barcelona, in northern Spain. The park is located in the Calle Olot area and is open every day, including holidays, when the opening hours vary according to the months of the year. For example, from October 27 to March 23 the place is open between 08:30 and 18:00, from the end of March to the end of April the complex is open between 08:00 in the morning and 20:00 in the evening. From the beginning of May to the middle of September there is an additional hour of activity and the place is open until 9:00 p.m., while from September 15 to October 26 the complex in Goel Park is open every day from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
To your question, since the end of October 2013, the entrance to the part where Gaudi’s buildings and gardens are located is subject to a fee and the cost will be detailed in the next paragraph, but it is worth emphasizing that Güell Park in itself is a beautiful and well-kept urban public park and entrance to it is free, while it is possible (and highly recommended) to walk in part of it The top is free. At the same time, if you want to enter the complex in Park Goel where Gaudi’s buildings, gardens and monuments are located (Monumental zone), the entrance to it is paid today! The complex that is paid for actually includes the two colorful and stylish pavilions at the main entrance (which in the past were pavilions for the gardener, guard, and administration, and today one of them is a souvenir shop) as well as the 86-column complex – a large hall, open on its sides and covered, called the Hypostyle room, and above it is a large square (Nature Square), a spacious A large observation deck, which provides a view of all of Barcelona, when the square is bordered by a kind of continuous bench, wavy (Undulating bench) and designed in Gaudi style with colorful ceramic pieces. The ascent to the observation deck complex and the columns is through the famous monumental flight of steps with the famous and colorful Salamander lizard, which many refer to as a colorful dragon. The garden called the Austria Gardens is also included in the complex, as are the Roman style columns (Viaduct) around which there is a lot of well-kept vegetation and they look like a kind of aqueduct columns created by Gaudi and their upper part is a pedestrian path on the upper level and the stone terraces resembling the trees that were planted in them. By the way, the entrance to Audi’s house, which is located nearby in the Güell Park area, is a separate fee, although you can purchase a combined ticket for Google Park and Gaudi’s house. The house is currently used as a small museum (Gaudi House Museum) and is not all open to the general public, therefore, you should read on their website what is included in a visit to the Gaudi House before making the decision… For information regarding a visit to Park Guell, from their website, please click here .
Entrance to Park Goel costs €8 per adult, with children up to the age of 6 entering for free and children between the ages of 7 and 12 or adults over the age of 65 paying €5.60 per ticket. It is recommended to order tickets online, for two reasons: the price when ordering online through their website is a little cheaper than the price at the box office and, in addition, there is no need to stand in line to purchase the tickets. For more information from the Park Güell website, please click here . Again, it is important to emphasize that the entrance to Park Goel is free, however, if you want to visit the complex with the two buildings and the column complex designed by Gaudi, this involves a fee and the complex is fenced. After visiting the complex, it is definitely recommended to visit and walk among the beautiful park paths, in the higher part of Goel Park, and enjoy not only the vegetation but also the views from it. In addition, there are often bands of street musicians, which contribute to the experience. By the way, it is not possible to “skip” between the parts. That is, from the moment you leave the fee-fenced compound towards the open and greener part of the garden, you cannot go back. Also, it is recommended not to come on a hot day, since the fenced compound that is paid for is exposed to the sun and it is less pleasant to visit there at the height of the heat, without shade.
Regarding your second question, it is more recommended to reach Park Goel by bus lines 24 or 92 and enter through the secondary entrance on Carmel Road and not by the green L3 line of the metro (the relevant Lesseps or Vallcarcahn stops) and arriving through the main entrance on Olot Street, because the metro station is further away And getting from there to the park area involves a longer and exhausting walk with many stairs (so much so that in a certain small section there are even escalators). Therefore, you should come with bus lines 24 or 92 since their stop is closer to the park. In a framed article, it is important to note that there are several other bus lines that reach the Park Goel area, such as lines 31, 32 and 74, and the tourist bus red route also goes there, but these lines (including the red tourist line) stop at Travessera Street de Dalt and from there, depending on the location of the station and the route you choose to take, it is a distance of about 700 to 950 meters to the main gate of the park, with most of the way uphill, therefore, to make it easier, shorter and more convenient for you, it is much better for you to try and arrive with lines 24 or 92 , As detailed below.
Extended explanation: Park Goel has one main entrance (Principle Entrance), which is located on Carrer de Larrard, corner of Carrer d’Olot, and several other secondary entrances, with one of these secondary entrances – the most familiar and well-known of The secondary entrances – is on Carretera del Carmel and is located relatively close to the parking lot and right in front of a bus stop of line 24 and line 92. Therefore, many people come to it and from there enter Park Goel, thus saving a lot of climbing and walking. This is actually the eastern entrance of the park, or rather, the northeastern one, facing Carmel Road. The bus stop is on Carretera del Carmel which is in front of this entrance to Park Guell and the station is called Park Guell Station. The official website of Goel Park also states that although it is not the main gate or the main entrance to the complex, thanks to the nearby bus stop and the nearby parking lot, this entrance is often treated as the main entrance, in terms of visits and entry of tourists and visitors to the park. The bus stops on both sides of the road in front of this entrance have clear and common signage for lines 24 and 92.
Bus Line 24 in Barcelona departs from the Fontrodona-El Molino station in the Avinguda del Paral·lel area and continues to Carmel and it also passes through Plaça de Catalunya on its way to the Park Guell and Park Carmel areas, when the destination/ The direction is Carmel (Destination Carmel), the relevant station where you need to get off is called the Parc Guell station (Parc bus station Guell) and the two stations, on both sides of the road, are only about 40 meters from each other and are only about 50 to 100 meters from the entrance The secondary and eastern side of the park (Guell Entrance at Carretera del Carmel), next to the parking lots for buses and vehicles to the park.
Bus Line 92 (Bus Line 92 in Barcelona) departs from the Hospital Del Mar station in the Pg area. Maritim and the park area of the Olympic Port (Puerto de Olympico de Barcelona, Parc del Port Olympic) and it continues to the García quarter, when it also passes through Placa de les Glòries Catalanes on its way to the Park Guell and Park Carmel area. The destination/direction is the Gracia area (Destination Gràcia) and here again the relevant station for you is the same station exactly in front of the eastern entrance on Carmel Road, called Parc bus station (Ctra del Carmel Guell), as detailed above.
Bottom line, entrance to Gaudi’s complex in Park Guell costs money and the best way to reach Park Guell is by bus line 24 or 92 and get off at the Park Guell stop on Carmel Road, in front of the park’s eastern entrance. From this entrance you can walk in about two minutes at a leisurely pace to the entrance line to the park’s fee-fenced complex, when on the way you pass Gaudi’s house, which stands on the left side of the path and the entrance to it is for a separate fee. It is less recommended to arrive with the green L3 line, since the two stops (Lesseps, Vallcarca) are much further away and there are nearly twenty minutes of walking and many climbs to the entrance to Park Goel. Regarding the ways to get to Park Goel by bus, please click here .
