Though Picasso spent his formative years here, Joan Miró is the most famous 20th-century artist who can lay claim to Barcelona as his birthplace. The Joan Miró Foundation, donated by the painter in 1971, houses an exceptional collection of his seminal works.
Attracting 2.8 million people a year, Gaudí’s lifelong obsession, the Sagrada Família, is Spain’s most visited monument. Despite being incomplete for more than a hundred years after construction began, the church’s strange, towering grandeur is nothing less than awe-inspiring.