Park Güell for locals: free with the padrón, at seven in the morning or eight in the evening

If you are registered on the padrón of the city of Barcelona, you go into Park Güell for free with the Passi Verd, a named ticket booked on the official website right before going in and valid only for that day. The general ticket costs 18 euros, and from 7:00 to 9:30 and from 20:00 to 22:00 the park is reserved for residents.

Park Güell is one of the few places in Barcelona where the difference between tourist and local is written at the ticket office. Visitors pay and go in at the time on their ticket. People registered on the city's padrón go in free, can go every day and have the early morning and late evening to themselves. For someone coming to live here for a few months, knowing that rule changes the park completely.

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The rule: if you're on the padrón, you go in free

The park's official website puts it plainly: if you are registered on the padrón of the city of Barcelona, you can go in for free. The booking is called Passi Verd and is made on the same website, right before going in. You enter the number of your official ID document, which is the required field, and your name and surnames must match the document exactly. With that number the park checks your link to the municipal padrón.

The result is a named, personal and non-transferable ticket, shown at the entrances and valid only for the day it is made: the Passi Verd does not allow advance bookings. The park may check the holder's identity. Minors without an ID document go in with the holder, without prior registration.

For someone arriving for a season, the upshot is direct: registering on the padrón is not just paperwork, it is also the key to this park. If you are not registered, you pay like any other visitor.

The locals' hours

Visitor tickets are sold for slots between 9:30 and 19:30. Before and after that, the park is reserved for residents and Passi Verd: from 7:00 to 9:30, under the name «Bon dia Barcelona», and from 20:00 to 22:00, under the name «Bon vespre Barcelona».

These are the hours when the park looks most like what it is for the neighbourhood around it: a place to walk before work or to watch the evening fall over the city without the pressure of an entry slot. If you live in Barcelona for a few months, they are also the hours most worth going.

What it costs if you're not on the padrón

The general ticket costs 18 euros, VAT included. The reduced ticket, 13.50 euros, is for children aged 7 to 12, people over 65, holders of the Targeta Rosa Reduïda and companions of people with disabilities. Children aged 0 to 6 don't pay but need a ticket; holders of the Targeta Rosa and people with disabilities don't pay either.

Tickets are sold by time slot and you must reach the entrance control at the assigned time: there is a 30-minute margin and, after that, you lose the right to enter. Once inside, you can stay as long as you like, but if you leave you cannot go back in. The park recommends buying in advance to make sure you get a ticket.

A housing scheme that didn't sell

What is now a park was born as a property venture. In October 1900 work began levelling the land for a housing development by Eusebi Güell. In 1914 the works were abandoned: of the 60 houses planned, only two had been built. Güell died in 1918 in his house in the park. On 26 May 1922 the city council agreed to buy it, and in 1926 it opened as a municipal park.

Gaudí lived there between 1906 and 1925, in the house that since 1963 has been the Casa Museu Gaudí; in October 2026 it was temporarily closed. In 1969 the park was recognised as an artistic monument and in 1984 Unesco declared it a World Heritage Site. The monumental zone, the part that requires a ticket, covers 12 hectares, and next to it there is a wooded area of 8 more hectares.

Getting there

The nearest metro station is Lesseps, on L3, and from there it's an uphill walk. By bus, the 24 and V19 stop near the carretera del Carmel entrance, and the D40, H6 and 116 near the carrer d'Olot entrance.

Checked

Data checked on 15 October 2026 on the park's official website (parkguell.barcelona): prices and time slots, Passi Verd conditions, the park's history and area figures; and on the Sagrada Família website (sagradafamilia.org) for transport to the park and the temporary closure of the Casa Museu Gaudí. Access conditions change: confirm them on the website before you go.