Palau Sant Jordi
Barcelona handed its 1992 Olympic showpiece to a Japanese architect, and it's still the biggest indoor room in Spain.
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One of the main 1992 Olympic venues, home to artistic gymnastics, handball and volleyball. Arata Isozaki (with Mamoru Kawaguchi) designed it, and at 17,960 seats it's still Spain's largest indoor arena, now packed for concerts rather than medals.
What to look for
- Two venues, not one: the 17,960-seat main hall, and the separate 3,000-seat Sant Jordi Club behind it.
- You're standing inside the Olympic Ring, the venue cluster Barcelona built for the 1992 Games.
- A Japanese name on a Barcelona landmark: designed by Arata Isozaki, not a local.
An active arena (Passeig Olimpic 5-7), not a walk-through sight, so check the event schedule before you go.
Palau Sant Jordi 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.