.jpg/:/cr=t:30.88%25,l:0%25,w:100%25,h:38.23%25/rs=w:890,h:445,cg:true)
A hand up rather than a hand out.
At Hidden City Tours we believe in empowering our tour guides to step out of the vicious circle of homelessness. A one-to-one training program is run by founder Lisa Grace to create a unique visitor experience.
Creating jobs for Barcelona´s homeless
Hidden City Tours is an award winning Barcelona based social enterprise that has set about putting one of the city´s strengths - tourism - to work to solve one of the city´s social problems - homelessness.
Remember, when joining a Hidden City Tour you are not just buying a ticket for a city tour, you are actively taking part in a work reinsertion project for the homeless in Barcelona.
Come join a Hidden City Tour Leave a positive footprint of your trip to Barcelona by creating a job, a future, a new life for a homeless person….and in return take home an unforgettable experience that surely will be one of the highlights of your visit to Barcelona!
Suitable for both first time and repeat visitors to Barcelona.
This historic tour takes you through the city´s Gothic and Raval quarters of the old town, combining classic sites with off the beaten track sites. The tour aims to link history and social history with the present day and discuss homelessness and the social reality of Barcelona´s old town with unique insight from our previously homeless guides. This is the Barcelona you won´t read about in any guide book!
Please remember that Barcelona is an open air museum, and that is just how we appreciate Barcelona during our tour - from the street! We are not official tour guides and as such do not enter any historic buildings
Meeting point: Plaza Nova 1
https://goo.gl/maps/eF61NrcGqFU2
Closest metro stations: Plaza Catalunya (L1 and L3) Liceo (L3) Jaume 1 (4)
- Tour lasts 2 hours aprox, ends Boqueria market
- Available in English, German and Spanish
Suitable for repeat visitors to Barcelona or those with a special interest in homelessness.
The socially focused Streetlife tour takes you through the Raval quarter of the old town. It is a compact and small area to take in some key social institutions whilst learning how the homeless survive on the streets of Barcelona. The idea of our Streelife tour is to take you through the daily life of a person who lives on the streets of Barcelona from where to sleep, wash, change clothes, eat and how to look for work. This is the Barcelona you won´t read about in any guide book!
Meeting point: in front of the LiceoTheater on the Ramblas
https://goo.gl/maps/nGFamjycbAr
Closest metro station: Liceo (L3)
- Tour lasts 1 hour 30 minutes aprox, ends Liceo Theater
- Available in English, German and Spanish
Small sized group rates (from 4 to 7 pax)
19 euros per person (min. 4)
Medium sized group rates (from 8 to 20 pax)
16,95 euros per person
Larger group rates (21+ pax)
15,25 euros per person
Prices include 21% IVA
Please note that due to the volume of tours that we run, we do not offer open walking tours in which you can sign up to an existing tour. All tours are private.