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By Nostos Tours

Reviews

9.8 out of 10
Exceptional
Free cancellation available
Price is NZ$68 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 2h 30m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages

Overview

  • Join us in a walk through the streets and areas where Fascist, Anarchists and the democratic Spanish Republic fought for their lives and died for their ideals on this 2.5h Spanish Civil War walking tour in Barcelona.

    Discover what caused this often overlooked conflict and how it lead to a 36 year fascist dictatorship.

    • What caused the Spanish Civil War to start
    • Who were the fighting factions?
    • How did Franco win?

    As an Anarchist stronghold, Barcelona was unique in its fight against the Fascist forces of Hitler, Franco and Mussolini.

    Barcelona history war tour for groups, students, school trips.

    • What was the role of anarchists in Barcelona?
    • What was life under a Fascist Dictatorship like?
    • How could Franco remain in power for so long?

    By the end of this walking tour of the Spanish Civil War in Barcelona you'll understand why the city was known as one of the the most explosive cities in Europe.

Activity location

  • Placa Catalunya
    • Barcelona, Spain

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Foot Locker
    • 20 Plaça de Catalunya
    • 08002, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

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Guia Español/Spanish Guide

  • Activity duration is 2 hours and 30 minutes2h 30m
    2h 30m
  • Spanish
Language options: Spanish
Starting time: 10:30 AM
Price details
NZ$318.73 x 1 AdultNZ$318.73
Total
Price is NZ$318.73

Group Tour English guide

  • Activity duration is 2 hours and 30 minutes2h 30m
    2h 30m
  • English

Public Group Tour: Public tour with up to 20 people.
Start from Plaça de Catalunya

Language options: English
Starting time: 10:30 AM
Price details
NZ$67.73 x 1 AdultNZ$67.73
Total
Price is NZ$67.73

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Learn about the region's unique working class history and anarcho-syndicalist period
  • Inclusions
    Tour Guide who's an expert on this complicated and sensitive subject
  • Inclusions
    Make sense of the many political groups and factions of the Civil War
  • Inclusions
    Stories from Franco's Dictatorship
  • Inclusions
    See the scars and traces from the Spanish Civil War throughout the Old Town
  • Inclusions
    See historic images from the war to bring the history alive
  • Exclusions
    Service charge
  • Exclusions
    1€pp guide radio headset, to be paid at the meeting point to an external provider.

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
    • Not recommended for travellers with spinal injuries
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Placa Catalunya

  • 10m
Important place during the Civil war

La Rambla

  • 10m
Various Civil War related sites

Antic Hospital de la Santa Creu

  • 5m
15th Century Hospital

Basilica de Santa Maria del Pi

  • 5m
  • Admission ticket not included
Old church with a hidden connection to the Civil War

Placa Sant Felip Neri

  • 5m
Mystically Beautiful, while at the same time one of the most visceral reminders of the destruction of the civil war

Location

Activity location

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    Placa Catalunya
    • Barcelona, Spain

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Foot Locker
    • 20 Plaça de Catalunya
    • 08002, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

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