Sagrada Família Tickets

The basilica sells four tickets for individual visitors. The basic ticket covers entry with the official audio guide app, from €26 (2026 prices). The guided ticket adds a guided tour in the language you choose, from €30. Either one can include a tower, from €36 without a guide and €40 with one. A tower ticket covers one of the two towers open to visitors, and you pick which one when you book.

Reduced prices apply to seniors, under-30s and holders of a student card, and staff can ask for proof at the door. Children under 11 go in free but still need a ticket, and the audio guide is not offered to them. Visitors with a disability enter free, and so do their companions, who pay only for extras such as a guide or a tower.

Tickets carry the visitor's name, and it cannot be changed after booking. As a rule there are no refunds or exchanges. A change can be requested by email at least 48 hours before the visit, or later with official proof of why you cannot come, and the new visit must fall within 15 days of the original date. Tickets bought from resellers or tour companies follow that seller's own terms, not the basilica's.

Individual visitors go in on the Nativity façade side, on Carrer de la Marina. Everyone passes a bag check and a metal detector; if you have a pacemaker or are pregnant you can go through safely, but tell security staff first.

Travel light. Food and drinks from outside are not allowed, and there is nowhere to leave suitcases. The only lockers are for people going up a tower, where no bags or backpacks are allowed.

This is a working Catholic church. Trousers and skirts must reach at least mid-thigh, swimwear and bare feet are not allowed, and hats come off in the nave and the museum unless worn for religious or health reasons. Cover your shoulders for the Chapel of the Holy Sacrament. Tripods are not allowed, and under-16s must stay with an adult.

The tower visit goes up by lift and comes down on foot. Children under 6 cannot go up. The towers are not open to wheelchair users, people with reduced mobility, pregnant visitors or anyone with vertigo, heart or breathing problems. If bad weather or a breakdown closes them, the tower part of the ticket is refunded.

Tickets go on sale roughly two months ahead, and the booking page shows when only a few places are left in a slot.

Opening hours change with the season and on holidays, and events can change them, so check the time on your ticket. Visitors are asked to leave 15 minutes before closing.

The full audio guide lasts about 45 minutes. In the last hour of the day only a 25-minute short version is given out, so avoid the final slot if you want the whole commentary. From 9:00 to 10:00 every morning is a quiet hour, when any audio must be played through earphones.