Guinardo and Carmel: parks and history



- Explore one of the most fascinating and least known corners of Barcelona
- 1960s immigration and expansion, the bombing of Barcelona, psychedelic pigeon fanciers, gypsy neighbourhood under threat, mansions, Barcelona rich and poor, goats, wild flowers, great views
Practicalities
Shorter walk
- Length: 3 hours/per tour.
- Cost: 20 euros/person. Minimum 3 people or 60 euros
- 5 hours
- Difficulty: easy-medium
- Cost 100 euros
History of Barcelona
- Barcelona’s air defences during the Civil War
- Camp de la Bota – Barcelona’s death camp
- First bombing during the Civil War
- Fossar de la Pedrera – Montjuïc’s common grave
- La Modelo Prison
- Plaça de la Milicià Desconegut
- PSUC headquarters in Plaça Catalunya
- Somorrostro shanty town
- The La Canadiense Strike
- The Lenin Barracks – George Orwell in Barcelona
- The Liceu bomb
- The People’s Olympics in Barcelona
- 1936 revolution in Barcelona
- Barcelona in the Civil War
- Buenaventura Durruti
- Ethel MacDonald in Barcelona
- Fransesc Boix
- George Orwell tours in Barcelona
- History of anarchism in Barcelona
- Homage to Catalonia quiz
- Ramon Mercader, Trotsky’s assassin
- Salvador Segui – El Noi de la Sucre
- Spanish Civil War quiz
- Trotsky in Barcelona: Like Nice in a hell of factories
- Videos about the Spanish Civil War