Barcelona Zoo
This is where Snowflake lived — the only albino gorilla the world has ever known — until 2003.
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Open since 1892 and packed into 13 hectares of Parc de la Ciutadella, so it doubles as a walk through the park itself. Beyond Snowflake, it was home to Yoyo — believed to be the oldest African elephant in captivity — until she died in 2024 at 54.
What to look for
- The 1972 terrarium holds one of Europe's largest reptile and amphibian collections, komodo dragons among them.
- The Sahel Savannah section (2018), planted with authentic African vegetation to rebuild its animals' habitats.
- The Palmeral aviaries of macaws and cockatoos, plus the 1970s aviary (redone 2002) with about 70 bird species.
13 ha (32 acres) inside Parc de la Ciutadella — easy to pair with the park; give it a couple of hours.
Barcelona Zoo is one of 39 sights worth the detour in Barcelona, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the Barcelona pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in Barcelona
- Sagrada FamíliaGaudí is buried beneath a church begun in 1882 and still unfinished — one that in 2025 became the world's tallest.
- Camp NouThe bowl that once crammed 120,000 people in to watch Barça — European football's biggest room.
- Park GüellGaudí's failed luxury subdivision — 2 of 60 planned homes ever built — that Barcelona inherited as a mosaic playground.
- Casa Milà (La Pedrera)Gaudí's last private house looks like a wind-carved sea cliff parked on a city corner.
- Casa BatllóGaudí reskinned a townhouse into a slain dragon, down to columns shaped like leg bones.
- Barcelona CathedralThirteen white geese live in the cloister — one for each year Saint Eulalia was alive before Rome killed her.