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Barcelona

Spain · 12 quests

History

5 quests
Gothic Quarter, Barcelona🇪🇸 Barcelona
Gothic Quarter
Much of it is far newer than it looks
Montjuïc Castle, Barcelona🇪🇸 Barcelona
Montjuïc Castle
The army held this hill from 1640
Arc de Triomf, Barcelona🇪🇸 Barcelona
Arc de Triomf
It was the front door of a world fair
La Rambla, Barcelona🇪🇸 Barcelona
La Rambla
This street was once a riverbed
Sagrada Família, Barcelona🇪🇸 Barcelona
Sagrada Família
Gaudí is buried in the crypt below it

Nature

1 quest
Park Güell, Barcelona🇪🇸 Barcelona
Park Güell
Gaudí built a park on the hill above the city

Art

2 quests
Torre Glòries, Barcelona🇪🇸 Barcelona
Torre Glòries
Over 50,000 panels cover this tower
Casa Batlló, Barcelona🇪🇸 Barcelona
Casa Batlló
Its front is covered in broken tiles

Beach

2 quests
Barceloneta, Barcelona🇪🇸 Barcelona
Barceloneta
The sand was shipped in from the Caribbean
Somorrostro, Barcelona🇪🇸 Barcelona
Somorrostro
The beach got its old name back in 2010

Sport

1 quest
Camp Nou, Barcelona🇪🇸 Barcelona
Camp Nou
It is being rebuilt to hold 105,000

Party

1 quest
Primavera Sound, Barcelona🇪🇸 Barcelona
Primavera Sound
A festival built on independent music

Spain

Photo quests in Barcelona

What the catalogue actually holds here, and which of it is worth rearranging a day around.

Barcelona holds twelve quests across six categories, and History is the largest group by some way: five of them against two for Art. The one category with nothing in Barcelona so far is Food.

Three of them are tier 1 — finds rather than fixtures, and the one tier whose check-in asks for PRO; the other nine are open on any plan. Tier 3 covers three of them, which is the label for what a visitor would expect a travel app to have anyway.

History here means places where something happened and the ground still shows it, which is also where the famous version and the standing version most often part company. Art covers the work and the building around it, so a mural on an ordinary street counts alongside the collection with a ticket desk. Every check-in works the same way: the geotag your camera wrote into the photo has to land within 200 m of the quest's own point.

By category

Each of these opens the whole category across every city, with the Barcelona quests among them.

Tier 1

The unexpected ones

The three quests in Barcelona the catalogue files as finds rather than fixtures — the half of a city a guidebook has no room for.

Nearby

Cities near Barcelona

Ranked by distance rather than by border, because from here the next useful stop is often the one in the next country.

Questions

About quests in Barcelona

How many photo quests are there in Barcelona?
12, across six of the seven categories the catalogue uses. The deepest groups are History (5), Art (2) and Beach (2). Nothing in Food here yet — a category appears in a city the moment a quest is published into it, so the gaps move. Among them: Gothic Quarter, Park Güell and Torre Glòries.
What is there to do in Barcelona beyond the obvious?
3 of the 12 quests in Barcelona are tier 1, which is the catalogue's own mark for a find rather than a landmark: the pipeline that writes it is told that tier 3 is "everything a visitor would expect a travel app to have", and that tiers 1 and 2 are "only the unexpected finds". Barcelona holds three at tier 1, six at tier 2 and three at tier 3. The tier 1 quests here are Torre Glòries, Arc de Triomf and Primavera Sound, which fall under History, Art and Party.
Can you do all the Barcelona quests on one trip?
Yes, given a few days. Every one of the 12 falls within 4.9 km of the middle of the Barcelona list — walking and local transport, not day trips — so this is a list to plan a visit around rather than a reason to extend one.
Which Barcelona quests can you do for free?
9 of the 12 can be checked in on the free plan, and all 12 can be read and travelled to without paying anything — the catalogue is open signed out, on every plan. PRO covers the check-in on the hardest tier, which in Barcelona means three quests: Torre Glòries, Arc de Triomf and Primavera Sound.
How do I prove I visited a place in Barcelona?
Take the photo at the place and upload it. Your browser reads the location the camera wrote into that file and measures it against the quest's own coordinates; inside 200 m the check-in counts. The distance is measured to the point, not to the city: being in Barcelona is not what is checked, and a photo taken across town from Gothic Quarter fails exactly the way one taken at home does. A file with no location in it cannot be checked at all, and a photo that has been through a messaging app usually arrives that way — upload the original out of the camera roll rather than a copy someone sent back to you.