Montjuic walking tour
- The history of the hill: Iberians, Jews, Wilfred the Hairy, quarrying, the castle, a refuge from the factory fumes for Barcelona’s working class in the 19th century, the Civil War and Montjuic, the execution of the last president of Catalonia, shanty towns, the agricultural past, fields of apothecary herbs, remains of farms
- Superb gardens, old carob trees, remarkable cacti
- Great views of the old city and the port. Visit the cliffs where peregrine falcons and kestrels nest. This is the wildest corner of the city. Urban wildlife in Barcelona, the problem of parakeets.
Practicalities
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- Length: 3 hours/per tour.
- Cost: 20 euros/person. Minimum 3 people or 60 euros
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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
