Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #20 in Barcelona, Spain

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Number of sights 9 sights
Distance 4.3 km
Ascend 86 m
Descend 65 m

Experience Barcelona in Spain in a whole new way with our free self-guided sightseeing tour. This site not only offers you practical information and insider tips, but also a rich variety of activities and sights you shouldn't miss. Whether you love art and culture, want to explore historical sites or simply want to experience the vibrant atmosphere of a lively city - you'll find everything you need for your personal adventure here.

Activities in BarcelonaIndividual Sights in Barcelona

Sight 1: Parc de Joan Miró

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The Parque de Joan Miró is located in the Ensanche of Barcelona, near the Plaza de España, from which it is separated by the Las Arenas bullring.

Wikipedia: Parque de Joan Miró (EN)

194 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 2: Dona i Ocell

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Woman and Bird is Joan Miró's last public work, built between 1981 and 1982 in the Joan Miró Park in Barcelona.

Wikipedia: Dona i Ocell (CA)

646 meters / 8 minutes

Sight 3: The Dragon

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The Dragon is an iron sculpture located in the Parc de l'Espanya Industrial, in front of the Plaça dels Països Catalans, in the Sants district of Barcelona. The work of the San Sebastian sculptor Andrés Nagel, it was inaugurated on Sant Jordi's Day in 1987. It represents the figure of a dragon coming out of the lake. Made of corten steel, it weighs 150 tons, and is 12 meters high by 38 meters long. What represents the tail of the animal is an 18-meter-long slide, where young and old play. The sculpture has 3 other slides and a maze that joins them.

Wikipedia: El Drac (CA)

288 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 4: Parc de l'Espanya Industrial

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Parc de l'Espanya Industrial

The L'Espanya Industrial park is located in the Sants district of Barcelona, next to the Barcelona-Sants railway station, and is listed as an asset with elements of interest. It occupies part of the site of the factory that gives it its name, where the old schools and the Casa del Mig are preserved, where municipal facilities are located. On Carrer del Rector Triadó, outside the park, there is another building, which currently houses the Casinet d'Hostafrancs Civic Centre.

Wikipedia: Parc de l'Espanya Industrial (CA)

961 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 5: Jardins de Can Mantega

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The Can Mantega Gardens are a public park located in the Sants neighbourhood, in the Sants-Montjuïc district of Barcelona. With an area of 8,500 square metres, they are located between Joan Güell, Violant d'Hongria, Torrent de Perals and Rosés streets, and take their name from the old farmhouse that existed in this place. They are one of the last green spaces in the neighbourhood and are home to the Ninyu Fountain, included in the catalogue raisonné of public art of Sants-Montjuïc.

Wikipedia: Jardins de Can Mantega (CA)

710 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 6: Parròquia Mare de Déu dels Dolors

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Parròquia Mare de Déu dels Dolors

The Church of Sorrows is a church in Barcelona, located on Begur Street in the Sants district.

Wikipedia: Església dels Dolors (CA)

925 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 7: Mare de Déu dels Desemparats

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Mare de Déu dels Desemparats

The Virgin of the Forsaken is the parish church of the Torrassa neighbourhood in the city of L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona), protected as a cultural asset of local interest. The parish church, dedicated to the Virgin of the Forsaken, was built by Manuel Puig Janer between 1942 and 1949. There used to be a temporary temple, the work of the architect Josep Maria Sagnier i Vidal in 1935, which was burned down at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. The bishop of Barcelona, Gregorio Modrego, blessed the new temple on April 24, 1949, although the work was not definitively finished until 1951 with the erection of the bell tower.

Wikipedia: Mare de Déu dels Desemparats (l'Hospitalet de Llobregat) (CA)

103 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 8: Plaça Espanyola

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Plaça Espanyola

The Plaça Espanyola is a work in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona) included in the Inventory of the Architectural Heritage of Catalonia.

Wikipedia: Plaça Espanyola (l'Hospitalet de Llobregat) (CA)

509 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 9: Teatre Joventut

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The Teatre Joventut is the municipal theatre on Carrer Joventut in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, and to get there you can use the metro, line 5 Collblanc or line 1 Torrassa, or take the section to the Can Rigalt stop.

Wikipedia: Teatre Joventut (CA), Website

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