Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #15 in Barcelona, Spain

Mossèn Costa i Llobera Gardens is a botanical garden in the center of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is situated at the foot of Montjuïc facing the sea. The park owes its name to the renowned Mallorcan poet Miquel Costa i Llobera.

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The Mirador del Poble-sec Park is located on Montjuïc Mountain, in the Sants-Montjuïc district of Barcelona. It was made between 1995 and 1997 with a project by Patrizia Falcone.

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Parc de la Primavera is located on Montjuïc Mountain, in the Sants-Montjuïc district of Barcelona. It was created in 2007 with a project by Patrizia Falcone. This park was conceived with criteria of self-sufficiency and sustainability, one of the basic premises in the creation of green areas in the city today, such as the parks of Can Rigal, Torrent Maduixer and Rieres d'Horta.

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The Joan Brossa Gardens are located in Barcelona, on Montjuïc Mountain, at the bottom of the space where the Montjuïc Amusement Park used to be, inaugurated in 1966 and closed in October 1998. The gardens were inaugurated in 2003 and bear the name of the poet Joan Brossa i Cuervo. They occupy an area of 5.2 hectares of Mediterranean forest, of which 3.8 are green areas. They are interconnected with the Mossèn Cinto Verdaguer Gardens and the gardens of the old Tir al Vol field.

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The Monument to the Sardana is a sculpture from 1965, created by Josep Cañas, which represents eight people dancing a sardana, located in the Plaza de la Sardana. The sculptor had the collaboration of Carles Amadon. It is made of limestone. It measures 2.61 meters high by 4.72 meters wide.

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The Mirador de l'Alcalde Gardens are located on the mountain of Montjuïc, in Barcelona, taking advantage of the steep slope of the mountain near Montjuïc Castle. The Mayor's Viewpoint is part of the Passeig dels Cims, a landscape project for the planning of the high levels of Montjuïc, from Miramar to Carrer del Foc.

Wikipedia: Jardins del Mirador de l'Alcalde (CA)

Montjuïc Castle is an old military fortress, with roots dating back from 1640, built on top of Montjuïc hill in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It currently serves as a Barcelona municipal facility.

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Montjuïc is a hill in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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The Mossèn Cinto Verdaguer Gardens are located on Montjuïc Mountain in the Sants-Montjuïc District of Barcelona, in the area between the Montjuïc funicular and the Joan Brossa Gardens.

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The Fountain of Beauty is a sculpture located in the Sants-Montjuïc district of Barcelona, in Plaça de Dante. A work by Josep Llimona from 1925, it was placed in the context of the urbanisation of Montjuïc mountain carried out for the celebration of the International Exhibition of 1929. This work is registered as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest (BCIL) in the Inventory of Catalan Cultural Heritage with the code 08019/1756.

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The Sculpture Garden, annexed to the Joan Miró Foundation, is located on the mountain of Montjuïc in Barcelona. It was built in 1990 with a project by Jaume Freixa and Jordi Farrando, and in 2002 it was rebuilt by Marina Salvador. It contains works by sculptors such as Tom Carr, Pep Duran, Perejaume, Enric Pladevall, Jaume Plensa, Josep Maria Riera i Aragó, Cado Manrique, Ernest Altès, Gabriel Sáenz Romero and Sergi Aguilar.

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The Festival Grec de Barcelona is an international theatre, dance, music and circus festival. Over the course of its history, this long-standing event has become a major summer attraction in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

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The Laribal Gardens are located on the mountain of Montjuïc in Barcelona and are listed as an asset with elements of interest. They were made between 1917 and 1924, on the occasion of the Barcelona International Exhibition of 1929 by Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier and Nicolau Maria Rubió i Tudurí.

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The Jardí Petra Kelly is a park in Barcelona, Spain. It is named after the German politician and peace activist Petra Kelly (1947–1992).

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The Joan Antoni Samaranch Olympic and Sport Museum opened in 2007 at the Olympic Ring in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The museum is located in front of the Lluís Companys Olympic Stadium at the Montjuïc hill. In June 2010 it was renamed in honour of Juan Antonio Samaranch, who was president of the International Olympic Committee from 1980 to 2001 and a key person during the 1992 Summer Olympics, which were held in Barcelona.

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The Ramon Margalef i López Gardens are located on the mountain of Montjuïc in Barcelona, between the Olympic Stadium and the Bernat Picornell Swimming Pools.

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The Montjuïc Communications Tower, popularly known as Torre Calatrava and Torre Telefónica, is a telecommunication tower in the Montjuïc neighbourhood of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was designed by Santiago Calatrava, with construction taking place from 1989 to 1992. The white tower was built for Telefónica to transmit television coverage of the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona. The 136-metre (446 ft) tower is located in the Olympic park and represents an athlete holding the Olympic Flame.

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The Botanical Garden of Barcelona is a botanical garden in the Montjuïc hill of Barcelona set amongst a number of stadiums used in the Summer Olympic Games of 1992. Although a botanical garden had been established in Barcelona as early as 1888, the current gardens date from 1999. It should not be confused with the Historical Botanical Garden of Barcelona founded in 1930 and reopened in 2003, also located in Montjuïc. Both botanical gardens, the Historical Botanical Garden of Barcelona and the Botanical Garden of Barcelona, are administrated by the Botanical Institute of Barcelona, which is one of the four institutions that constitute the Museum of Natural Sciences of Barcelona.

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The Mirador del Migdia Park is located on Montjuïc Mountain in the Sants-Montjuïc District of Barcelona. It was created in 1992 with a project by Beth Galí, Jaume Benavent and Andreu Arriola.

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The gardens of Ca l'Alena are a public park of about 4000 square meters that is located inside the block of the so-called viviendas de la Capa, in the neighborhood of La Marina de Port, in the district of Sants-Montjuïc. Both Alena and Capa are names that come from the public companies that between the 30s and 70s of the last century had a sawmill in this place.

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The Arboreda Gardens are an urban public park in Barcelona's Marina del Port neighbourhood of about 10,000 square metres. They are located in the interior of the block, bounded by Passeig de la Zona Franca, Carrer de l'Energia, Carrer de la Mecànica and Carrer dels Hauts Forns. These gardens are part of the urbanization of Sant Cristòfol, the neighborhood of the old flats of the Seat de la Zona Franca. It has a type of hard square with tall trees with a set of buildings that surround the flower beds.

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The Garden of Human Rights is located in the Zona Franca, in Barcelona, inside a rectangular island, where the Lámparas Z electric lamp factory was formerly located, later absorbed by the Philips company.

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