Barcelona Weekend Break

Barcelona sightseeing tours and excursions

One of the best ways to see Barcelona is by taking an organized tour or excursion and there are a great many companies that offer these guided trips around the city, or a specific part or theme of it.

Excursions can be loose and informal like an open topped city tourist bus, or highly organized and include accommodation and shuttle transport to and from airports.

You can take a city sightseeing tour that lasts anything from a couple of hours to a couple of days and the beauty of this kind of city tour is that everything is preplanned. That means that you don not waste time looking for places, or trying to figure out the best and quickest ways to get to them, especially if they are in different districts of Barcelona.

A city tour can be a very time efficient way of seeing a lot in a short period of time and is ideal for a weekend break or mini trip. (My mother, a very well seasoned traveler always starts off a city vacation with some kind of organized tour, and then goes back on her own to take a closer look at the things that caught her eye.)

Available Barcelona Tours

The kind of Barcelona tour that you select can easily be tailored to your interests (or limitations on time) with specialist tour operators providing tours like "Gaudi's Barcelona", a general Barcelona old city tour, or a trip to the mountains to see a monastery like the one at Montserrat.

There are a whole range of tour themes and, if you like the idea of having everything organized for you, you will have no trouble finding the perfect tour for your individual interests.

You will also find companies offering cycling tours and coastal cruises which provide an opportunity to see Barcelona and its shoreline from a different perspective.

By opting for a tour you will also benefit from an English speaking guide who can fill you in on any relevant historical information, or amusing anecdotes connected with a particular building or location. Most guides are informative, but also entertaining.

Tourist information

If you are considering taking a tour of some kind, do some research and get an idea of what is on offer before you leave for your weekend break.

You will usually find links to companies offering these sightseeing tours of Barcelona in the Orange resource boxes on this page and they can provide you with itineraries, tour costs and the opportunity to purchase your tickets in advance if you so wish.