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The 19th-century façade – reaching up to 70 m (230 ft) – draws your gaze up. Flanking the eye-catching entrance are twin towers, Modernista stained-glass windows and 100 carved angels.

The lavish choir stalls (1340), crowned with wooden spires, are decorated with colourful coats of arms by artist Joan de Borgonya.

Graced with a fountain, palm trees and roaming geese, the cloister dates back to the 14th century. The mossy fountain is presided over by a small, iron statue of Sant Jordi (St George).

In the crypt’s centre lies the graceful alabaster sarcophagus (1327) of Santa Eulàlia, Barcelona’s first patron saint. Reliefs depict her martyrdom.

This 15th-century capella (chapel) features the Christ de Lepanto, which, legend has it, guided the Christian fleet in its 16th-century battle against the Ottoman Turks.

Honouring Sant Benet, the patron saint of Europe, this chapel showcases the 15th-century altarpiece Transfiguration of the Lord by illustrious Catalan artist Bernat Martorell.

This lovely Romanesque chapel is dedicated to Santa Llúcia, the saint of sight and vision. On her saint’s day (13 December), the blind (els cecs ) arrive in droves to pray at her chapel.

The immense nave is supported by soaring Gothic buttresses, which arch over 16 chapels. The 16th-century organ looming over the interior fills the Cathedral with music during services.

The 11th-century Pia Almoina, once a rest house for pilgrims and the poor, houses the Museu Diocesà, with Romanesque and Gothic works of art from around Catalonia.

Originally built in the 12th century, the Archdeacon’s House sits near what was once the Bishop’s Gate in the city’s Roman walls. Expanded over the centuries, it now includes a leafy patio with a fountain.