Audio tours
in Barcelona

Audio tours in Barcelona

History

Monumental Barcelona: The Genius Who Reformed a City

At the end of the 19th century, Barcelona was a city trapped. Trapped inside its medieval walls. Trapped in a textile economy that was beginning to fall behind. Trapped between the power of the Church and the power of a

🎧 14 min 12 stops 🚶 4.8 km ESENPT +2

Dark History

Red and Black Barcelona: Blood, Gunpowder and Resistance

Barcelona was not always the city of Gaudí and sun-drenched terraces. It was the world capital of anarchism. The city where more churches burned in a single day than anywhere else. The city where workers took control of

🎧 17 min 12 stops 🚶 4.6 km ESENPT +2

Architecture

Gaudí: the Architect Who Gave 43 Years to a Church He Knew He Would Never See Finished

Antoni Gaudí took charge of the Sagrada Família in 1883, aged 31, and worked on it until a tram struck him down in 1926. He knew he would not see it finished, and a century later the basilica is still a building site. Al

🎧 25 min 12 stops 🚶 36.08 km ESENPT +2

History

Barcelona: Two Thousand Years of History Stacked Beneath the Gothic Quarter

Beneath the narrow streets of the Gothic Quarter, Roman Barcino is still standing: walls, towers, a temple and whole streets buried just a few metres down. On top, the centuries piled up a cathedral, a destroyed Jewish q

🎧 24 min 13 stops 🚶 2.07 km ESENPT +2

History

Barcelona 1909: the Week the Poor Refused to Go to War

In July 1909 the government sent thousands of reservists to Morocco, many of them married with children, while those who could pay 1,500 pesetas bought their way out of the front. Barcelona answered with a general strike

🎧 21 min 12 stops 🚶 13.98 km ESENPT +2

Suggested plan for Barcelona

Doing every Trevurs tour in Barcelona takes about 17 h 30 min in total. A relaxed way to split it:

No fixed schedule: start whenever you want, skip stops, or spread a tour over several days.

Barcelona on a budget

The Trevurs app is free and has 5 audio tours in Barcelona: 1 h 41 min of narration across 61 stops and 61.5 km of walking routes. Download them over wifi and listen offline, with no mobile data. Entry tickets to museums, churches or monuments along the way are not included. Premium, from USD 1.99, adds unlimited offline downloads, every tour and no ads.

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Barcelona at your own pace

Each tour starts at stop 1 and you go stop by stop at your own pace: pause, rewind or skip any stop. No booking and no fixed start time, and it works offline once downloaded. 2 routes are longer than 12 km: split them over several days or use public transport between some stops.

• Monumental Barcelona: The Genius Who Reformed a City
  Starts at stop 1, “The Arch Nobody Remembers Why” (map) · 14 min of audio · 4.8 km (~1 h 10 min on foot) · ~1 h 30 min in total
• Red and Black Barcelona: Blood, Gunpowder and Resistance
  Starts at stop 1, “The Bomb in the Box” (map) · 17 min of audio · 4.6 km (~1 h 10 min on foot) · ~1 h 30 min in total
• Gaudí: the Architect Who Gave 43 Years to a Church He Knew He Would Never See Finished
  Starts at stop 1, “The Lampposts of a Newly Qualified Architect” (map) · 25 min of audio · 36.1 km (~9 h on foot) · ~9 h 30 min in total
• Barcelona: Two Thousand Years of History Stacked Beneath the Gothic Quarter
  Starts at stop 1, “The Gate of Barcino” (map) · 24 min of audio · 2.1 km (~30 min on foot) · ~1 h in total
• Barcelona 1909: the Week the Poor Refused to Go to War
  Starts at stop 1, “The Reservists' Quay” (map) · 21 min of audio · 14 km (~3 h 30 min on foot) · ~4 h in total

In one day you can do Barcelona 1909: the Week the Poor Refused to Go to War (~4 h) and Barcelona: Two Thousand Years of History Stacked Beneath the Gothic Quarter (~1 h): about 5 h of touring with audio and walking. Doing all 5 tours takes about 3 days at a relaxed pace, as in the suggested plan on this page.

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Why an audio tour

• ✓ No group to keep up with and no guide to wait for
• ✓ Start at any time of day, on your own schedule
• ✓ Go at your own pace: pause, rewind or skip any stop
• ✓ No need to commit 2 or 3 hours to a single tour: do one stop or the whole route
• ✓ Works offline once downloaded

Trevurs is a free app for iOS and Android. There is also an optional Premium version, from USD 1.99, with unlimited offline downloads, access to every tour and no ads. It also helps keep an independent app alive.

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