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By Questifan
Free cancellation available
Price is CA $16 per traveller* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple travellers

Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 1h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages

Overview

  • Barcelona spent centuries with its back to the sea - then built a monument that got almost everything about facing it wrong. This self-guided quest starts at the last surviving gate of the medieval city and ends at the water, tracing seven puzzles across three real locations where a plaque, an inscription, or a signature tells a storey different from what most visitors assume. Along the way you'll find a customs house that misspells its own purpose, the true builder of a monument whose designer usually gets all the credit, and the most photographed finger in Barcelona - pointing the wrong way. A 60-minute walk for curious travellers who like their history a little contested.

    • Start at Barcelona's only surviving medieval gate
    • Solve seven puzzles across three real locations, ending at the harbour
    • Uncover the true storey behind the Columbus Monument's best-known inaccuracies
    • A flexible 60-minute self-guided experience, bookable the same day

Activity location

  • Portal De Sant Antoni
    • Placa De Baix, 1
    • 17811, Santa Pau, Spain

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Portal de Santa Madrona
    • 12 Avinguda del Paral·lel
    • 08001, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

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Barcelona Christopher Columbus Monument Walking Tour in Multilingual

  • Activity duration is 1 hour1h
    1h
  • Opening hours: Sun 7:00am-9:00pm
  • English
Price details
CA $16.02 x 1 TravellerCA $16.02
Total
Price is CA $16.02

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Original storey content, clues, and puzzles in your chosen language (EN/ES/FR/DE/RU)
  • Inclusions
    Access to the self-guided quest via the app
  • Inclusions
    Audio narration in all 5 languages
  • Inclusions
    Hints for every puzzle if you get stuck
  • Inclusions
    Step-by-step GPS navigation between all locations
  • Exclusions
    Smartphone with data or wifi connection (required to run the app)
  • Exclusions
    Coffee and/or Tea

Know before you book

    • Wheelchair accessible
    • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
    • Service animals allowed
    • Public transport options are available nearby
    • Transport options are wheelchair accessible
    • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Portal De Sant Antoni

  • 8m
Travellers begin at the last surviving gate of Barcelona's medieval wall, right beside the Royal Shipyards. Every other city gate was demolished in 1854 - this one survived because it stood on active military land. The app reveals why, and what saved it.

Duana de Barcelona

  • 8m
A grand former customs house covered in oversized stone eagles and mythical beasts. Travellers read a single word carved across its facade to solve this step's puzzle - a small detail that reveals a real linguistic tension in the building's history.

Christopher Columbus monument

  • 25m
A 60-metre column crowned by a bronze statue of Columbus, built for the 1888 Universal Exposition. Travellers circle the base counting carved animals, uncover the true builder's forgotten signature, decode a Roman-numeral plaque, and finish by tracing exactly where the statue's famous pointing arm really points.

Location

Activity location

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    Portal De Sant Antoni
    • Placa De Baix, 1
    • 17811, Santa Pau, Spain

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Portal de Santa Madrona
    • 12 Avinguda del Paral·lel
    • 08001, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

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