The year is 2008 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.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>, with a fine selection of picturesque<\/a> and modern<\/a> bars, old water towers and fountains.<\/p>\n We then head out past the remains of farmhouses<\/a> and over rough land<\/a> to an area that combines a great warren of old shantytown development<\/a> (three most interesting bars, horticulturalists squatters of various ages) with some marvellous 19th century farmhouses<\/a> and gardens<\/a>. We'll also meet some barnyard animals and The Last Farmer of Horta--if he's not down the pub.<\/p>\n 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<\/em>, a neo-Moorish royal palace and a peaceful little bar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The year is 2008 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":43,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-157","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oreneta.com\/baldie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oreneta.com\/baldie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oreneta.com\/baldie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oreneta.com\/baldie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oreneta.com\/baldie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oreneta.com\/baldie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3101,"href":"https:\/\/oreneta.com\/baldie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/157\/revisions\/3101"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oreneta.com\/baldie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oreneta.com\/baldie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}