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

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Basics

grade leisurely
base Barcelona
location tags Barcelona, Barcelonès, 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

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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