Although the tour was advertised as Gaudi, the real impact on us was to hear of, and experience, the rationales and planning on the historical development of Barcelona.It enabled us to enjoy the rest of our trip so much more.

I had the great pleasure of recently working with Ricardo of BAW. I am an architect and professor who was charged to lead a group of 16 graduate architectural students through Barcelona for 10 days. While of course I knew the architectural and urban basics of Barcelona, I wanted a like-minded local professional to introduce to my group the issues as only a local professional could explain. Ricardo did so in spades: his knowledge sewed together cultural history with urban and social history as well as contemporary context. The walking tour we were provided was a first-rate introduction to the city as a complex evolving organism and not merely a history lesson on the city's Greatest Hits. One note: BAW made suggestions to me initially about tours that they had developed previously but they had no hesitation to customize a tour aligned with my group's specific interests. While this tour provided academic architectural knowledge and commentary from an architect to architects, the content was always grounded in clear language and ideas and as such, would have riveted any/every dedicated traveler. I recommend BAW to anyone and will certainly seek them out in the future.