The undulating stone facade of Casa Milà seen from Passeig de Gràcia on a clear day, with its wrought-iron balconies and the plane trees along the pavement

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Casa Milà tickets: pick your visit

A stone facade that ripples like the sea, chimneys that look like sculptures and an attic of brick arches. Here is how to choose your ticket, when to go and how to arrive.

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In short

Casa Milà, also called La Pedrera, is open every day, and the hours change with the season. The simplest way in is the entry ticket with audio guide. You choose the day when you book, and the visit takes about an hour and a half.
Until 1 November 2026 the building is open from 9:00 to 20:30. From 2 November 2026 to 25 February 2027 it closes earlier, at 18:30. It is closed on 25 December and from 11 to 17 January 2027.
Wear shoes with a good grip. The visit climbs to the roof, and the roof floor is very uneven. The building is only partly accessible: lifts and ramps connect the floors, but the roof cannot be visited in a wheelchair.
Short on time? Choose the entry ticket with audio guide. Want someone to tell you the story? Choose the guided tour. Want another mood? Try the sunset visit in season or the night visit, with a light show on the roof.

The facade: a wall that moves

Stand on Passeig de Gràcia and look up. There is hardly a straight line on the front of Casa Milà. The stone curves in and out like a cliff worn by the sea, and people soon nicknamed the building La Pedrera, the quarry.

The wall does not hold anything up. It hangs from the structure behind it like a curtain made of more than 6,000 blocks of stone.

The balconies: 32 different railings

The railings look like seaweed tangled in the wind. There are 32 balconies, all different, made of wrought iron from reused bars and chains. The first one, on the second floor, came from the workshop of the Badia brothers, with Gaudí watching.

The courtyards: light and painted walls

The entrance hall of Casa Milà, with its iron gate, stone columns and a ceiling painted with plants and flowers

Two inner courtyards, one round and one oval, bring daylight deep into the building. In the entrance halls the painted walls imitate tapestries. The hall on the Passeig de Gràcia side shows the myth of Vertumnus and Pomona, and a trompe-l'oeil by the stairs makes a staircase seem to hang beside a garden.

The roof: chimneys like sculptures

The roof is the reason many people come. Around thirty chimneys and six stair exits rise in odd shapes, and one group is covered in pieces of dark green champagne bottles. At one end a small white arch frames the Sagrada Família in the distance.

The floor is uneven, so walk slowly and look where you step.

The attic: 270 brick arches

The attic of La Pedrera, a long corridor of brick catenary arches lit from below along the floor

Under the roof, a long attic is held up by about 270 thin brick arches. Some people call it the Whale Attic, because the arches look like the ribs of a whale. It was once a place to wash and dry clothes, and it also kept the heat in winter and out in summer. Today it holds an exhibition about Gaudí's life and work.

The flat: how a family lived here

A bedroom of the period apartment in La Pedrera, with a carved wooden bed and bedside table, a parquet floor and a patterned rug

Casa Milà was built as a home for families, and one of the flats shows you what that looked like. It has furniture from the early twentieth century, and you can walk through the rooms the way a tenant once did.

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