Around The Montjuic

drewloupsen — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:16:17 +0000

Maybe the principal joy up on Montjüic is its parks and green areas. It’s incredible to be able to escape on just a short ride on the Funicular from downtown Barcelona, and transport yourself so quickly to an oasis of colour and smells of the botanical green areas that lie below the famous cable car ride. This is a great place to relax and get a picnic, for example, exploring the Japanese bridge, spying tadpoles at the lazy cascades and playing in the central, man-made lake, which due to droughts in latest years have become an excellent children’s playground! With the botanical gardens being a favourite for locals at weekends, if you happen to visit mid-week, you may almost have the park to yourself!
Moving across the road from the botanical green areas and towards the old Port is the Joan Brossa Park, which is great pleasure for kids and grown ups alike. This park winds nearly the middle of Montjüic in direction of the port, and includes children’s play spaces and ingenious “musical toys” made totally from natural elements – for example musical spring cushions for you to jump on, tunnel telephones made from wood, and see-saw wind organs. You have to see it to believe it! There are also some great hidden children’s play spaces full of shade and a great place as an alternative to the busy beaches for families with young kids during the summer. Another good place is Poble Espanyol
Montjüic also homes the Ethnological museum, and another little-known park just behind, known as the Park del Font del Gat – or the Cat’s fountain park, which bears its name as a cat is said to have discovered the fountain. This park is on a gradient, like much of Montjüic, but is even now very easily accessible because Montjüic is more like a big hill really, rather than a mountain as its name suggests. You can go there with Bus Touristique Barcelone

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Around The Montjuic