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Barcelona guided walking tours - The last farmer of Horta
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Basic data
| grade | easy |
| base | Barcelona |
| location tags | Barcelona, Barcelonès, Catalonia, Catalunya, Cataluña, Horta, |
| theme tags | farmers, social history, |
| walking distance | 4.2 km / 2.61 miles |
| walking time, excluding breaks | 2.5 hr |
| total return travel time from base to walk | 0.75 hr |
| total time from "hello" to "goodbye" | 4.13 hr |
| fiestas and markets on the way |
Note that there are also events in most places on January 6 (Three Kings), Carnival, Easter, April 23 (St George), June 23 (St John), and September 11 (Catalan regional/national day) |
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Description of the walk
The year is AD. Barcelona has swallowed up the surrounding villages and filled them with ugly housing and carparks. Well, not entirely… One small farm of indomitable pensioners still holds out against the invaders. Originally a rather damp feudal landholding with church, the village where we start became the place where Barcelona's clothes were washed in the 19th century, and, when the tram arrived in 1901, a garden suburb for the middle classes. Our excursion starts in pretty village centre, with a fine selection of picturesque and modern bars, old water towers and fountains. We then head out past the remains of farmhouses and over rough land to an area that combines a great warren of old shantytown development (three most interesting bars, horticulturalists squatters of various ages) with some marvellous 19th century farmhouses and gardens. We'll also meet some barnyard animals and The Last Farmer of Horta--if he's not down the pub. We continue uphill past a magnificent large fortified farmhouse and finish the walk at the Labryinth Park, with 18th century gardens used to film bits of Perfume, a neo-Moorish royal palace and a peaceful little bar.
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