Casa Milà (La Pedrera), Barcelona

Casa Milà, better known as La Pedrera, is an apartment building on Passeig de Gràcia in Barcelona that Antoni Gaudí designed for the businessman Pere Milà and his wife Roser Segimon. It was built between 1906 and 1912 and was the last private house Gaudí completed before devoting himself to the Sagrada Família.

Its undulating stone façade, with wrought-iron balconies that look like seaweed, earned it the mocking nickname “La Pedrera”, Catalan for “the stone quarry”. Inside there are no load-bearing walls: the floors rest on stone and brick pillars and steel beams, so every apartment could have its own layout, and two large courtyards bring light and air into the building.

The visit takes in the entrance hall and the courtyards, an apartment furnished as an early 20th-century bourgeois home, the attic with its brick catenary arches and an exhibition on Gaudí’s methods, and the highlight, the rooftop. Its chimneys and stairwell towers, some covered in broken tiles and glass, look like helmeted warriors and offer views as far as the Sagrada Família.

La Pedrera is open every day. In 2026 the daytime visit costs from €29, a sunset visit from €25 and the night experience with a light show on the rooftop from €39.50; children under 12 enter free. Tickets are cheaper online, and time slots often sell out in summer.

The building stands on the corner of Passeig de Gràcia and Carrer de Provença, a short walk from Diagonal metro station (lines L3 and L5). Since 1984 it has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site “Works of Antoni Gaudí”, and some of its apartments are still lived in today.