What Is Casa Milà (La Pedrera)?

Casa Milà was Antoni Gaudí's last private residential commission, built between 1906 and 1912 for the wealthy couple Pere Milà and Roser Segimon on Passeig de Gràcia, Barcelona's grandest boulevard. Locals nicknamed it "La Pedrera" — the stone quarry — because its undulating, rough-hewn limestone facade looked, to contemporary critics, more like an unfinished quarry face than a finished apartment building. The name stuck and is now used interchangeably with the building's official one.

Gaudí abandoned straight lines almost entirely: the facade ripples across the corner of Passeig de Gràcia and Carrer de Provença, wrought-iron balconies twist like seaweed, and the building rests on a self-supporting stone structure with no load-bearing interior walls — an engineering innovation that let Gaudí design a genuinely free-flowing floor plan. The rooftop is the building's signature feature, lined with sculptural chimneys and ventilation towers that locals call "espantabruixes" (witch-scarers) for their helmeted, faceless silhouettes. Along with Park Güell and Palau Güell, Casa Milà was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site on 2 November 1984, as part of the "Works of Antoni Gaudí" listing.

Casa Milà Tickets & Prices 2026

The standard Essential ticket starts at €25 for adults as of mid-2026 and includes a self-guided audio tour through the attic (Espai Gaudí exhibition), the Milà family's furnished apartment floor, and the rooftop terrace. Junior tickets (ages 12–17) run €12.50, and discounted entry for seniors 65+, students, and visitors with a 33%+ disability certificate is €19; children enter free up to a cutoff that varies slightly by ticket seller, so confirm the exact free-entry age at booking.

For an evening visit, the Night Experience starts at around €39 for adults and runs in the evening (roughly 7pm to 9–10pm depending on the month), pairing the lit-up rooftop with a shorter, more atmospheric route. A similar-priced Sunrise ticket opens the building before the general public. The Open Date ticket, from around €45, skips the fixed time slot in exchange for a flexible booking window, and a Premium small-group option runs from roughly €120. If you're also visiting Gaudí's other Passeig de Gràcia landmark, a combined Casa Milà + Casa Batlló ticket is available from around €54, which usually costs less than booking both separately.

Prices are set and updated by Casa Milà directly, so treat these as a mid-2026 snapshot and confirm current figures before booking (see the official ticket link at the end of this guide). If you're comparing several paid Barcelona sights against a bundled option, our breakdown of whether the Barcelona Pass is worth it covers whether pass-included access to Casa Milà makes financial sense for your itinerary.

Opening Hours & Best Time to Go

Casa Milà runs on two seasonal schedules in 2026:

• Early March – early November (high season): daily, 9am – 8:30pm
• Early November – early March (low season): daily, 9am – 6:30pm

The building is closed to visitors on December 25. Last admission to the interior is roughly one hour before closing, and the rooftop stops accepting new entries about 15 minutes before the building closes for the day — arriving late in the afternoon can mean missing the terrace, so don't cut it too close. Confirm the live schedule on the official site before you travel, since hours can shift for maintenance or events.

For the smallest crowds, aim for right at 9am opening or after roughly 4:30pm — both windows sit outside the mid-morning to mid-afternoon stretch when tour groups and day-trippers cluster on Passeig de Gràcia. Weekdays are consistently quieter than weekends, and the rooftop closes during rain, so check the Barcelona forecast before locking in a time slot if seeing the chimneys is your priority.

How Long to Plan

Budget around 1.5 to 2 hours for a self-paced visit through the attic exhibition, the Milà apartment, and the rooftop terrace using the included audio guide. Visitors who linger for rooftop photos among the chimneys or read every panel in the Espai Gaudí attic tend to run closer to two hours; a faster pass-through can be done in about 75 minutes. If Casa Milà is one stop among several Gaudí sites, our 2-day Barcelona itinerary shows how to sequence it against Casa Batlló and Sagrada Família without backtracking.

How to Get There

Casa Milà sits at Passeig de Gràcia, 92, on the corner with Carrer de Provença, in Barcelona's Eixample district. The closest metro stops are Diagonal (lines L3 and L5) and Passeig de Gràcia (lines L2, L3, and L4), both a short walk from the entrance. Several city bus routes also stop nearby along Passeig de Gràcia and Diagonal. Because the surrounding Eixample grid is flat and walkable, Casa Milà is an easy 10-minute walk from Gaudí's other Passeig de Gràcia house further down the same boulevard.

Visit Tips: Queues, Booking & Mistakes to Avoid

Book your timed-entry ticket online before you travel. Casa Milà sells slots that regularly sell out on weekends and mornings between March and October, sometimes with only a week's notice — booking a few days to a week ahead is the single biggest factor in whether your visit goes smoothly. Everyone enters at their booked slot, so on-time arrivals face only a short line rather than a long walk-up queue.

Common mistakes are avoidable. Don't skip the audio guide — it explains the structural engineering behind the self-supporting facade and the symbolism of the rooftop chimneys, details that are easy to miss walking through unguided. Don't book a rooftop-focused visit on a day with a poor forecast, since the terrace closes in rain with no guaranteed refund for the missed feature. And wear comfortable, flat shoes — the rooftop and attic both involve uneven surfaces and a fair amount of stairs.

Nearby Attractions

Casa Milà sits at the top of a short walk of Gaudí and Modernisme landmarks along Passeig de Gràcia. Casa Batlló, Gaudí's mosaic-and-bone-balcony house, is about a 10-minute walk down the same boulevard, and Park Güell, Gaudí's hillside mosaic park, is a short bus or taxi ride away. Sagrada Família, Gaudí's still-unfinished basilica, is roughly 20–25 minutes away by metro and is worth treating as its own half-day rather than squeezing in after Casa Milà.

For what else the city offers beyond its Gaudí landmarks, see our guide to hidden gems in Barcelona beyond the headline sights, or plan an evening afterward with things to do in Barcelona at night.