How to get to the Poble Espanyol: metro, the bus that drops you at the gate, opening hours and price

To get to the Poble Espanyol, take the metro to Espanya (L1 and L3) and walk 15 minutes, or take buses 13, 23 and 150, which stop at the Poble Espanyol stop. It opens on Mondays from 10 am to 8 pm and Tuesday to Sunday until midnight; an adult ticket costs €14.40 online in advance or €16 on the day.

The Poble Espanyol is a whole village built on Montjuïc for the 1929 International Exhibition, with streets and squares copied from towns all over Spain. It is a 15-minute walk from the Plaça d'Espanya metro, and there are buses that drop you right at the entrance. This is what its official website and TMB, the city's metro and bus company, say about getting there, opening hours and prices, for anyone living in Barcelona for a few months and looking for an afternoon out.

What the Poble Espanyol is

It was designed to impress visitors to the 1929 Barcelona International Exhibition and to last only as long as the fair. Its creators, the engineer and painter Miquel Utrillo, the illustrator Xavier Nogués and the architects Francesc Folguera and Ramon Reventós, first travelled to more than 1,600 towns and villages, and what they saw made them change the project. Work began on 19 January 1928 and the site opened on 20 May 1929. It was such a success that it was never pulled down.

Today it covers more than 40,000 square metres in the open air, with 117 architectural reproductions ranging from Romanesque to Baroque. It has a gate with the towers of Ávila, in front of which official photos were taken during the Exhibition, and on the Plaza Mayor stands the copy of the town hall of Valderrobres, whose original was finished in 1599. There are corners of Albarracín, Andalusian streets of white houses and corners of La Mancha. Its history has darker pages too: during the Civil War it was an internment camp for prisoners.

By metro and train

The nearest station is Espanya, on metro lines L1 and L3. The Poble Espanyol's website reckons on 15 minutes on foot from there. The Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat also stop on the same square, at Plaça Espanya, for lines L8, S3, S4, S8, S9, R5, R50, R6 and R60, again 15 minutes' walk away.

If you arrive by long-distance train, the website suggests getting off at Sants Estació and carrying on by bus, about 15 minutes. The walk from Plaça d'Espanya passes very close to the Font Màgica, which has its own guide with show times in the Font Màgica de Montjuïc, and the square itself, with its towers and its old bullring, is covered in Plaça d'Espanya in Barcelona.

The bus that drops you at the gate

To skip the walk, three lines stop at the Poble Espanyol stop: the 13, the 23 and the 150. According to TMB, the 150 runs from Plaça d'Espanya to the Castell de Montjuïc: it leaves from the Fira Barcelona stop, next to the metro, calls at Lleida - Av Paral·lel and Av Ferrer i Guàrdia - Mèxic, and the next stop is Poble Espanyol. It then carries on up the hill to the castle, so the same bus lets you link both visits; the castle's free afternoon is in the Castell de Montjuïc for free. The 13, also according to TMB, stops at Pl Espanya - Av Reina Maria Cristina and shortly after at Poble Espanyol.

The sightseeing buses get there too: the Red Line of the Barcelona Bus Turístic has its stop 7 here and the Barcelona City Tour, its orange route. By car there is a supervised pay car park at Avinguda dels Montanyans, 1. You can cycle there but not ride inside: there is bike parking outside, and bicycles, scooters and skateboards are not allowed in.

Opening hours and price

It is open every day of the year. On Mondays, from 10 am to 8 pm (20 h); from Tuesday to Sunday, from 10 am to midnight. There are exceptions: on 25 December it closes at 2 pm (14 h), and from 7 January to 5 February, Monday to Thursday, it closes at 8 pm. The ticket office closes an hour before the site. Your ticket lets you go in at any time on the chosen day and leave whenever you like.

An adult ticket costs €14.40 if you buy it online in advance and €16 if you buy it on the day, online or at the ticket office. Children aged 4 to 12 pay €9 in advance or €10 on the day, and under-4s go free. There is a pack for 2 adults and 2 children for €42. At the ticket office, over-65s pay €10 and students with a card, €12; wheelchair users get in free.

Two tickets change the plan. The night ticket costs €7, a single price for adults and children, and is valid from 8 pm (20 h), when the site is quiet. The combined ticket with the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya costs €20. The general ticket is not valid for concerts or private events. If you have a library card, there is a Sunday discount, as we explain in the Barcelona library card.

Once inside

Around twenty craft workshops work in the Poble, and you can look inside them. The Museo Fran Daurel, of contemporary art, opens on Mondays from 10 am to 6.30 pm (18:30) and from Tuesday to Sunday from 10 am to 7 pm (19 h). The exhibition «Un viaje fotográfico. La construcción del Poble Espanyol» tells how the site was built, and the installation Fiesta, of 150 square metres, brings together images and sound from popular festivals. The website itself recommends going up to the area of the monastery of Sant Miquel for the views over Barcelona.

There is free wifi and free lockers, and the accessible route is marked on a map you can download from the website. For anyone staying a few months, the site sells annual passes so you can come back as often as you like.

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Details checked on 18 October 2026 on the official Poble Espanyol website (practical information, history and architecture), on its official ticket shop and on TMB's pages for bus lines 150 and 13. Opening hours and prices checked in October 2026.