Barcelona guided walking tours - Abbey town over hills to Tibidabo / Barcelona

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Basic data

grade	leisurely
base	Barcelona
location tags	Barcelona, Barcelonès, Catalonia, Catalunya, Cataluña, Sant Cugat, Vallès Occidental,
theme tags	ecclesiastical,
walking distance	16 km / 9.94 miles
walking time, excluding breaks	4.15 hr
total return travel time from base to walk	0.45 hr
total time from "hello" to "goodbye"	6.05 hr
comments, pingbacks, trackbacks	Show/hide kalebeul » New great mosque for Barcelona in historic building on Tibidabo says: June 2 2008 at 08:58 [...] fallen to feminine wiles in the intervening biennium) emerge blinking from the forest at the end of this walk. My God, says one looking down, is that a mosque? And then remembers seeing a photo of it during [...] Reply kalebeul » Political animals says: September 5 2008 at 13:18 [...] Although the winning candidate for mayor in Sant Cugat has some of the superficial traits of a cartoon rodent, town hall sources have confirmed that no attempt was made to register a Senyor Conill or any other political anthropomorph during the recent elections. Related walk: Sant Cugat to Barcelona. [...] Reply kalebeul » Dr Andreu en z’n toverpillen says: September 5 2008 at 13:21 [...] Mop van La Gateta, de ondernemingsraad van een ziekenhuis hier. Gerelateerde tochten: Sant Cugat naar Barcelona en de Serra de [...] Reply Want to leave a (moderated) comment? Click here to cancel reply. Name (required) Mail (will not be published) (required) Website

Description of the walk

Standard route

1. Coffee and buns followed by stroll through Sant Cugat. Late C19th/early C20th industrial/commercial architecture (market, ceramics factory, wine co-op), Renacentista professionals (butcher, aceituneros, farmer) and C12th-14th monastery (1, 2, 3, 4). Old path out of centre past Catalan suburban dream. Dense natural forest (8K hectares). Secret springs, ruinedand restored chapels and the occasional clearing (1, 2). Ibero-Roman kiln.
2. Grand turn-of-century basilica (Gothic chapel built on top of Catalan-Byzantine one) (512m, even better views).
3. Spooky funfair pioneered by money-laundering snakeoil salesman, Dr Andreu.
4. Option: nice rustic café with good snacks / lunch.
5. Foster’s 1992 telecomms tower, early (Alpine-style) C20th villas.
6. 158m descent to town in 1906 funicular.

Options

1. Replace 6. with extension of a few more kms along to end of ridge. Outstanding views of Barcelona and the Llobregat delta to the south. Excellent rose gardens. Optional visit to transexual streetwalkers and Barcelona FC’s Camp Nou stadium.

Photos: the Dr Andreu tin and Tibidaboare from eBay auctions.

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