Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #9 in Barcelona, Spain

The Carmen Amaya Fountain is a sculptural fountain in Barcelona, Spain, located in the Plaza de Brugada, in the neighborhood of La Barceloneta. It was made by the sculptor Rafael Solanic and inaugurated, with the presence of the honoree herself, on February 14, 1959. The initiative corresponded to the journalist Josep Maria Massip and the location is due to the fact that next to that area was Somorrostro, a neighborhood of shacks where the Barcelona dancer Carmen Amaya was born and raised.

Wikipedia: Fuente de Carmen Amaya (ES)

The Wind Rose is an abstract sculpture located in the Plaça de Pau Vila in Barcelona, in front of the Palau de Mar. Work of the German artist Lothar Baumgarten, it consists of metal letters embedded in the pavement of the square, which form the eight names of the winds of Catalonia, each oriented in the direction that the wind is coming from. It is inspired by the poem Veles e vents by Ausiàs Marc. It was inaugurated on July 21, 1992, a few days before the opening of the Barcelona Olympic Games.

Wikipedia: La rosa dels vents (CA)

The schooner Santa Eulalia is a historic sailboat characteristic of the western Mediterranean Sea and representative of cabotage navigation. In 1919 it was launched in Torrevieja (Alicante) and in 2011 it was declared a Cultural Asset of National Interest by the Generalitat de Catalunya.

Wikipedia: Santa Eulàlia (pailebot 1919) (CA)

A Galceran Marquet is a sculptural monument located in the Plaça del Duc de Medinaceli, in the Gothic Quarter of Barcelona, in homage to the Catalan vice-admiral Galceran Marquet. Created in 1851, it was the work of the architect Francesc Daniel Molina and the sculptor Damià Campeny, assisted in the decoration of the base by Josep Anicet Santigosa. It is listed as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest.

Wikipedia: A Galceran Marquet (CA)

Plaça del Duc de Medinaceli is a square in central Barcelona. It is part of Barri Gòtic, in the Ciutat Vella district, located between Passeig de Colom and Carrer de la Mercè, on a terrain formerly part of a 13th-century Franciscan convent until 1836. The square was projected after the disappearance of the old city walls and the convent in the 19th century. It is named after the 16th century nobleman Luis de la Cerda y de la Vega, count of Medinaceli, Cogolludo and Arcos de Jalón, a descendant of the Montcada family, who gave away the terrain to the Franciscans.

Wikipedia: Plaça del Duc de Medinaceli (EN)

The Barcelona Wax Museum is a private museum in Barcelona that houses an important collection of more than two hundred wax figures of real and fictional characters and receives almost two hundred thousand visits per year. It is located in the former headquarters of Banca Crèdit i Docks, in Passatge de la Banca.

Wikipedia: Museu de Cera de Barcelona (CA), Website

A Frederic Soler is a sculptural monument located in the Pla del Teatre in Barcelona, in the Ciutat Vella district. It was created in 1906 with an architectural design by Pere Falqués, while the sculptural part was in charge of Agustí Querol. The monument is dedicated to the Catalan playwright Serafí Pitarra, pseudonym of Frederic Soler i Hubert, considered the founder of Catalan theatre. This work is registered as a Cultural Asset of Local Interest (BCIL) in the Inventory of Catalan Cultural Heritage under the code 08019/1012.

Wikipedia: A Frederic Soler (CA)

La Rambla is considered the most well known street in central Barcelona. A tree-lined pedestrian street, it stretches for 1.2 kilometres connecting the Plaça de Catalunya in its center with the Christopher Columbus Monument at Port Vell. La Rambla forms the boundary between the neighbourhoods of the Barri Gòtic to the east and the El Raval to the west.

Wikipedia: La Rambla, Barcelona (EN)

The Jardins de les Voltes d'en Cirés are a public space in the Raval district of Barcelona, located between Avinguda de les Drassanes and Carrer Nou de la Rambla, close to facilities such as the Drassanes Primary Care Centre, the Drassanes Civic Centre and the Official School of Languages.

Wikipedia: Jardins de les Voltes d'en Cirés (CA)

The Teatre Victòria is a theatre in Barcelona, Spain.

Wikipedia: Teatre Victòria (EN)

The Teatre Condal is a theatre located at Paral·lel, number 91. Opened in 1903, it is still in operation, in a new building.

Wikipedia: Teatre Condal (CA)

El Molino is a café-concert in Barcelona, one of the most renowned in Europe during much of the twentieth and nineteenth centuries, and has always been considered a space that transgressed the permitted limits, with a great capacity to create its own languages, with a double meaning, with the motive of being able to escape the censorship of each era. With its characteristic red mill blades on the façade, it was the most famous of the theatres on the Paral·lel, an avenue that came to be baptised as "the street of the theatre of Europe", due to the large concentration of scenic spaces it had.

Wikipedia: El Molino (CA)

Shelter 307 is one of the air-raid shelters for the civilian population built during the Spanish Civil War in the city of Barcelona, listed as an asset with elements of interest. It was excavated thanks to the work of many neighbors in the Poble Sec neighborhood, and is currently open to the public as part of the Barcelona History Museum.

Wikipedia: Refugi 307 (CA), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Parc de la Primavera (CA), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Parc del Mirador del Poble-sec (CA), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Monument a la Sardana (Barcelona) (CA)

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)

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.

Wikipedia: Jardins de Mossèn Cinto Verdaguer (CA)

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

Wikipedia: Jardí Petra Kelly (DE)

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.

Wikipedia: Joan Antoni Samaranch Olympic and Sport Museum (EN)

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.

Wikipedia: Jardí d'Escultures (CA)

The Teatre Lliure is a theatre in Barcelona, Spain, considered one of the most prestigious in Catalonia.

Wikipedia: Teatre Lliure (EN), Website

The Umbracle Gardens are located on Montjuïc Mountain, in the Sants-Montjuïc district of Barcelona. They were made between 1917 and 1924, on the occasion of the Barcelona International Exhibition of 1929, being the work of Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier and Nicolau Maria Rubió i Tudurí. Its name comes from the shade of the Font del Gat, a greenhouse that disappeared in a fire in the 1960s, of which the walls remain.

Wikipedia: Jardins de l'Umbracle (CA)

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.

Wikipedia: Jardins de Laribal (CA)

The Museum of Ethnology and World Cultures (MuEC) is a museum located in the city of Barcelona that aims to preserve and disseminate cultural diversity, reflecting on changes and conflicts in society to become a Social Museum. Despite its long history, it adopted its current name in 2018 as a result of the merger of the Ethnological Museum of Barcelona and the Museum of World Cultures. It has two headquarters: Montjuïc and Montcada.

Wikipedia: Museu Etnològic i de Cultures del Món (CA), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Jardins de Ramon Margalef i López (CA)

The Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, abbreviated as MNAC, is a museum of Catalan visual art located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Situated on Montjuïc hill at the end of Avinguda de la Reina Maria Cristina, near Pl Espanya, the museum is especially notable for its outstanding collection of romanesque church paintings, and for Catalan art and design from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including modernisme and noucentisme. The museum is housed in the Palau Nacional, a huge, Italian-style building dating to 1929. The Palau Nacional, which has housed the Museu d'Art de Catalunya since 1934, was declared a national museum in 1990 under the Museums Law passed by the Catalan Government. That same year, a thorough renovation process was launched to refurbish the site, based on plans drawn up by the architects Gae Aulenti and Enric Steegmann, who were later joined in the undertaking by Josep Benedito. The Oval Hall was reopened for the 1992 Summer Olympic Games, and the various collections were installed and opened over the period from 1995 to 2004. The museum was officially inaugurated on 16 December 2004. It is one of the largest museums in Spain.

Wikipedia: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (EN), Website

The Barcelona Pavilion, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich, was the German Pavilion for the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona, Spain. This building was used for the official opening of the German section of the exhibition. It is an important building in the history of modern architecture, known for its simple form and its spectacular use of extravagant materials, such as marble, red onyx and travertine. Furnishings specifically designed for the building, including the Barcelona chair, are still in production. It has inspired many important modernist buildings. The original structure was demolished in 1930, and the existing reconstruction was completed in 1986.

Wikipedia: Barcelona Pavilion (EN), Website

Font Florida Park is located next to Montjuïc Mountain, near the Zona Franca, in the Sants-Montjuïc district of the city of Barcelona. It was created in 1995 with a project by Carles Casamor, Ramon Marquès and Carles Fuentes.

Wikipedia: Parc de la Font Florida (CA)

The Can Sabaté park is located in the Marina de Port, in the Sants-Montjuïc district of Barcelona. It was built in 1984 with a project by Neus Solé, Imma Jansana and Daniel Navas, who had the advice of Nicolau Maria Rubió i Tudurí, former director of Parks and Gardens of Barcelona between 1917 and 1937, author of Montjuïc Park together with Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier in 1929.

Wikipedia: Parc de Can Sabaté (CA)