
The 237 meters of the Passeig de Gràcia transfer, which thousands of Barcelona metro users use every day, will become a large musical tunnel. The Barcelona City Council, through BIT Habitat, in collaboration with Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB) and the Barcelona Music Lab Foundation, has opened a call for innovative and creative solutions to improve the user experience on the subway line that connects lines L3 and L4.
This initiative puts music as the central axis, in all its artistic forms, to transform one of the most iconic transfers of the city’s metro network. This is not the first time that TMB has reconditioned this space, as already happened in 2023 with the transformation of 25 meters of the tunnel to generate a friendlier and safer space.
But it will be the first project to cover the entire space and is part of the events celebrating the centenary of the Barcelona metro, which closed 2024 with an all-time record of 469 million validations.
The initiatives must have music as a common thread, and may include behavioral approaches, cultural or technological innovations, and various artistic languages.
Interventions may be made on the floor, walls or ceiling of the transshipment and environmental sustainability, interaction with users and the use of digital technologies will be positively valued.
The selected proposals will be developed and manufactured in the second half of 2025, and from November of the same year they will be tested on the Passeig de Gràcia tramway for three months.
The call will remain open until February 24, 2025 and is open to companies and self-employed individuals.
A maximum of 50,000 euros will be awarded to subsidize 80% of the budget of the winning project. In addition, the three best-ranked proposals will receive 3,000 euros each as a prize.
The selected projects will receive support in communication and dissemination within the framework of the celebration of the Centenary of the metro, as well as connections with the musical ecosystem of the city, explains TMB in a statement.