{"id":15379,"date":"2019-01-25T16:05:48","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T15:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thehappyjetlagger.com\/?p=15379"},"modified":"2026-01-08T21:12:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T20:12:58","slug":"barcelona-sagrada-familia-tipps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehappyjetlagger.com\/en\/barcelona-sagrada-familia-tipps\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona: Tips for the Sagrada Familia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I am the perfect tourist. Well, from a purely economic point of view. I visit the most overcrowded and stupid tourist traps. As long as they are among the top 10 must-see sights. Whatever the cost. Going to one place and skipping the most important spots – where would we end up? Ballooning in Mexico<\/a>? (It was really unique!) For a mere forty dollars to the Rockefeller Center<\/a> in New York? (Dream. Best sunset ever.) No matter. After all, you only live once. And who knows when you’ll come back again? So I always let myself be persuaded, even when reason (or my wallet) says it’s not worth it. <\/p>\n\n

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I also suffer from acute FOMO: Fear of missing out, the perpetual fear of missing something. I always open the top 10 pages of the travel guide first, and then I more or less plan to make sure I catch everything. After all, I want to have seen the most important things. <\/p>\n\n

Barcelona as the perfect city trip?<\/h2>\n\n

That was also the plan for Barcelona. I actually know it well, but it had been so long since my last visit that it was time for a full sightseeing tour again. In my memory, Barcelona was this energetic city full of lightness, sunshine, joie de vivre and the best pickpockets in Europe (I still remember a tearful visit to a police station that was bursting at the seams with other victims). Barcelona is also easy to get to for a few days and relatively cheap. Thought.<\/p>\n\n

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Barcelona’s most famous landmark (and permanent construction site): The Sagrada Familia<\/h2>\n\n

How your own memory can deceive you: Even in the gray cold of January, Barcelona is far too crowded at the tourist highlights for there to be any joy. And at prices that even scare me as an unshakeable tourist trap invader. I would have loved to see the Sagrada Familia again from the inside, Gaudi’s eternal construction site (and here in Berlin everyone laughs about the capital’s airport – just look at Barcelona, it took over 130 years to build!) The city’s landmark. A cathedral unlike anything else that has gone before. An architectural work of art. The plan: climb one of the towers at sunset and see Barcelona in the soft light of the evening sun. <\/p>\n\n

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The only problem is if you don’t buy your ticket in time for the coveted sunset phase, only the stupidest times are left – and then in the end you don’t have the scruples to fork out 32 euros for entry to a church, especially at a time you can’t do anything with. I mean: 32 euros – hello? Without me. That’s right. Because enough is enough. And you have to say no sometimes. Even if the top 10 list remains incomplete. <\/p>\n\n

Tips for the Sagrada Familia<\/h2>\n\n