Isometric Barcelona
Isometric Barcelona shows the city the way an old city-builder game would: Cerdà’s Eixample grid with its cut corners, Gaudí’s Sagrada Família, Casa Batlló and La Pedrera, the Gothic Quarter around the cathedral, the beach at Barceloneta and the hill of Montjuïc over the port. Drag to explore, zoom in to single blocks, and tap a name to learn about the place.
Streets, parks, beaches and every building footprint come from OpenStreetMap, where Barcelona is mapped in rare detail from the cadastre: about seven in ten buildings on this map have a real height. The sea is built from the coastline, Torre Glòries lights up in colour after dark, cars and trams run in the streets and boats cross the harbour; the ☀ button switches the map from night to day.
Places on the map
- begun 1882 · Antoni Gaudí
- Gaudí’s basilica, still under construction more than a century after he took it over in 1883. He is buried in its crypt; its central Tower of Jesus Christ makes it the tallest church in the world. Wikipedia ↗
- 1904–1906 · Gaudí
- Gaudí’s remodelling of a house on the Passeig de Gràcia, with a roof like a dragon’s back and balconies like masks. Locals call it the house of bones. Wikipedia ↗
- 1906–1912 · Gaudí
- Casa Milà, nicknamed “the stone quarry” for its rippling stone façade. Its rooftop chimneys look like a row of helmeted warriors. Wikipedia ↗
- Gothic · 13th–15th c.
- The Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Saint Eulalia in the Gothic Quarter. Thirteen white geese live in its cloister, one for each year of the young saint’s life. Wikipedia ↗
- 2005 · Jean Nouvel · 144 m
- The bullet-shaped tower once known as Torre Agbar. At night thousands of LEDs light its skin in changing colours. Wikipedia ↗
- 1888 · Josep Vilaseca
- A red-brick arch built as the main gateway to the 1888 Universal Exposition, at the head of a promenade down to the Parc de la Ciutadella. Wikipedia ↗
- beach · fishermen’s quarter
- An 18th-century grid of narrow blocks built for the fishermen and sailors of the port, next to the city’s best-known beach. Wikipedia ↗
- hill · 1929 Exposition
- The hill over the port, with the Palau Nacional (now the National Art Museum of Catalonia) and the Magic Fountain below it, both built for the 1929 International Exposition, and the stadiums of the 1992 Olympics. Wikipedia ↗
- 1957 · FC Barcelona
- FC Barcelona’s home since 1957 and the largest stadium in Europe, being rebuilt to seat 105,000. Wikipedia ↗
- 1900–1914 · Gaudí
- A hillside garden city that became a park, with Gaudí’s mosaic salamander, the long serpentine bench and views over the whole city to the sea. Wikipedia ↗
- 44 storeys · 154 m
- One of the two tallest buildings in the city, with Torre Mapfre, on the Olympic waterfront next to Frank Gehry’s giant golden fish. Wikipedia ↗
- 1.2 km promenade
- The tree-lined promenade from the Plaça de Catalunya down to the Columbus Monument and the old port. Wikipedia ↗
- market · La Rambla
- Barcelona’s most famous food market, under an iron roof just off La Rambla. Wikipedia ↗
- 1905–1908 · UNESCO
- Lluís Domènech i Montaner’s concert hall, a jewel of Catalan modernisme with a skylight of stained glass over the stalls. Wikipedia ↗
- 1329–1383 · Catalan Gothic
- The church of the sailors and dockworkers of La Ribera, built in just over fifty years, which gives it its rare unity of style. Wikipedia ↗
- 1888 · 60 m
- A column topped by Christopher Columbus at the bottom of La Rambla, built for the 1888 Universal Exposition. Wikipedia ↗
- 1902–1930 · UNESCO
- Domènech i Montaner’s modernista hospital, a garden city of pavilions joined by underground tunnels. Wikipedia ↗
- city centre
- The big square where the old town meets the Eixample, and where La Rambla begins. Wikipedia ↗
- old harbour
- The old port, reached by a wooden footbridge from the foot of La Rambla, with marinas, an aquarium and the Maremagnum. Wikipedia ↗
- park · 1888
- A park on the site of an 18th-century citadel, with the Cascada fountain, the Catalan Parliament and the zoo. Wikipedia ↗
- 1859 · Ildefons Cerdà
- Cerdà’s grid of square blocks with cut corners, which gives the city its famous octagonal crossings. Wikipedia ↗
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