Est. 2014 · Barcelona
Barcelona Walking Tourswith Local Storytellers
Walks through Barcelona’s Old Town and Gaudí’s architecture, small-group or fully private, led by people who tell the city’s stories where they actually happened, and who love the question you did not know you had.
We are myBCN, a small team of local guides who would rather have a conversation than give a speech. We walk Barcelona’s Old Town and Gothic Quarter and the architecture of Antoni Gaudí, with private tours of single masterpieces such as the Sagrada Família, Casa Batlló, and Park Güell. Groups always stay small, so the talk stays two-way, and every story we tell is one you can still see standing around you.
Start with a Walk, Then Explore Barcelona
Walking Tours: Start Here
The heart of what we do, and the place to start. A local friend walks you through the old city and Gaudí’s Barcelona and tells its stories out loud, standing where they happened.
Things to Do: Our Own Picks
The street art, food, cava and more that we have tried ourselves and would send a friend to.
Day Trips: Beyond the City
Half-day and full-day escapes to the coast, Montserrat and the rest of Catalonia, where the story carries on once you leave Barcelona.
Our Walking Tours
Pick how you want to walk, then pick the walk. Never scripted, always a conversation.
How You Can Take a Tour
Semi-Private
Join a Small Group
Our scheduled walks. You join a small group of fellow travellers, usually four to eight adults and never more than nine adult guests, so the talk stays two-way and everyone gets to ask a question. The usual way to walk with us.
Private
Private Walking Tours in Barcelona
Any of our walks, just for your group, with the focus tilted to your interests: deeper for the curious, lighter for families with children. Take a full walk privately, or a shorter tour of a single site. The guide’s attention is yours from the first street to the last.
Custom
Built From Scratch
Not on our list? Tell us what you want to see and we will build the walk around it, from one neighbourhood to a full day across the city.
Our Walks
Old Town Gothic Quarter
Introduction to Barcelona
An Old Town Gothic Quarter Walking Tour
Walk the oldest part of Barcelona with a local friend who teaches you to read it: Roman walls, medieval lanes, carved dragons and saints, and a living quarter where people have traded and lived for two thousand years.
Gaudí and Art Nouveau Architecture
Introduction to Gaudí’s Life and Work
An Architectural Walk to Sagrada Família
Walk the whole life of Gaudí with a local friend, from the movement he came out of up to the Sagrada Família where it ended, reading his buildings and his rivals’ along the way until you can tell a Gaudí at a glance.
Go Inside Gaudí’s Barcelona
Gaudí’s masterpieces, seen from the inside with a licensed local guide who tells you what you are looking at and why it matters. Private, up to nine adults.
Guide fee only. Venue entry tickets are not included in the price and are booked separately.
Sagrada Família
Introduction to the Sagrada Família
Gaudí’s Gospel of Light
Step inside the basilica Gaudí gave his life to and let a local guide read it for you: the forest of stone columns, the colour that moves across the floor as the sun crosses, and the meaning built into every surface.
Park Güell
Introduction to Park Güell
Gaudí’s Abandoned Magical Wonderland
Walk Gaudí’s garden city with a local guide and see the Barcelona that was never finished: terraces built for houses that never came, the tilework, and the view the whole project was meant to frame.
Casa Batlló
Introduction to Casa Batlló
Gaudí’s Dragon House of Bones and Fire
Go inside the house Gaudí reshaped into bone, water and light, told room by room, from the dragon-back roof down to doorways with no straight line in them.
Combine Sites
Sagrada Família + Park Güell
Introduction to Gaudí’s Obsession with God and Nature
Gaudí at his most devout and his most playful in one private morning: the basilica he built for God and the garden city he built for the city, both from the inside with your own guide.
Sagrada Família + Park Güell + Casa Batlló
Introduction to Gaudí’s Faith, Nature, and Dragon
The full sweep of Gaudí in one tour: Casa Batlló’s bones, Park Güell’s gardens and the Sagrada Família’s light, all from the inside with a guide who joins the dots between them.
Barcelona is a living museum, shaped by history but never frozen in time.
Roman ruins lie beneath your feet. Gothic arches frame daily life. Modernisme façades stand beside concrete towers. Here, the past is not kept behind barriers: people live in it. Walk these streets and you become part of the story.
Jana + Matt · Founders of myBCN
Who We Are
myBCN grew from one private walk in the early 2000s, for a guest who wanted more than a checklist of landmarks. One walk became another, and in 2014 Jana and Matt gave the idea a name. Today we are a small team of local guides, so your host might be Jana, Matt, or one of the guides who walk the city the way we do. We do not follow a script, we follow curiosity: every guide stops at the detail others rush past, a symbol in a stone wall, a joke carved into a gargoyle. Groups stay small, so there is always time.
myBCN · Barcelona, told by locals
Great Stories.Real Conversations.Lasting Memories.
Direct from Our Cameras
Questions, Answered
The things guests ask before they book. See the full list on our FAQ page, and if yours is not there, just write to us.
Our Public tours are Semi-Private: they usually run with four to eight adults and are capped at nine adult guests, which means you get the attention of a guide without the logistics of a big group. Private tours are just your party: we do not add other guests, and the size depends on the tour you pick.
A Public tour (we call it Semi-Private) gives you a small group of up to nine adult guests and a fixed route. A Private tour is just your group: we adapt the route to your interests, stop when you want to stop, and the guide’s full attention is yours for the whole walk.
Yes, very. About a third of our guests come on their own, so you would be in good company. Because the groups are small and Semi-Private, you are with a handful of other curious people, not lost in a crowd. Quiet listeners are as welcome as question-askers.
Yes, and children often get the most out of them. Stories about real people, visible physical evidence (city walls, inscriptions, bones under the streets), and a guide who can adjust the level of detail on the spot work well for curious kids. Tell us the ages when you book and we will calibrate accordingly.
Public tours run in English only. Private tours are available in English, Spanish, German, Swedish, and French. If you need another language, contact us before booking and we will try to match you with the right guide.
Yes, that is the whole point of going Private. Tell your host what pulls you in and they will lean the walk that way, and set the pace and stops around your group. Same tour, shaped to you.
Yes. A Private walk takes up to fifteen people, which covers most families and friend groups. For a larger party, a celebration, a school trip or a work outing, we can run more than one group in parallel, each with its own guide, or build something around your numbers. Tell us the size, the date and what you have in mind.
Full refund if you cancel up to 24 hours before your tour start time. No questions asked.
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Gothic Illusion in a Neo-Gothic Frame – Bishop’s Bridge
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The Deal-Making Hall That Time Transformed – La Llotja de Barcelona
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