Mountain of the Jews (Montjuic) Barcelona

Saturday, June 23

I woke up in Barcelona today ready and raring to go, I have been waiting since I made my first deposit for this trip to see in person the works of Gaudi! Before I get too wrapped up in our day of exploring Barcelona let me first talk about Antoni Guadi. He was born in 1852 and by the time he was sixty his entire family …

Very interesting how this web site interprets the sites we saw today. Mountain of the Jews is the literal translation of Montjuic. But the name conceals a tragic story. The Jews of Barcelona had a cemetery on the mountain outside the medieval city. In the 15th Century, the Catholic monarchs ordered the destruction of the cemetery, and the …

The Montjuic hill is an amazing place, so we decided to spend the whole day here. First we visited the Miro museum. Joan Miro was an incredible artist and his art, paintings and sculptures really touched us. The Foundation Joan Miro is a museum everyone should visit, so as to get to know modernism at its higher level. Simply incredible!!! Next we …

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The final day of our tour abroad began with a 7:45 am wake up call so that our group could be ready for a 9:00 am bus tour. This might seem like a later start compared to some other days of our tour, but the clocks in Spain went ahead last night. As if the last day of touring wasn't tiring enough - now we had to deal with another time change. I am …

Before leaving Sagrada Famila, we grabbed some pasta at a little sandwich shop and re-hydrated. The food wasn't the best, but it was what we needed. We jumped back on the bus and decided that we would just sit and take in the sites.


We toured through beautiful neighborhoods with lush parks and modernisma apartments. We saw the …

We are starting to get a little travel-weary, so this is going to be a short post. Enjoy the millions of photos we took yesterday and today. If you have any questions, too bad. :) Just kiddin'-shoot them at us!

We saw so much of the city the past two days, and have now successfully visited all of Antoni Gaudi's major architectual works ( …

It is so often the case with me that I start things without ever completing them. Although, I never really lose the intention of finishing. So, here I am over a year later trying to keep my blog in line.

I find this trip fairly hazy now that I think of it. There are many many things that I could say about Barcelona but I think that the …

After a complimentary breakfast at the hostel, we met up with a tour (also complimentary from our hostel). There were two options, either a Gaudi tour or a tour of the Gothic area of Barcelona. We chose the Gaudi tour this time and decided to do the other tour later in the weekend since they are both offered everyday. We saw four of his major …

Al despertar me encontré en la estación Sants de la Ciudad Condal. Qué bueno era esto de dormir en el tren, ahorrar en alojamiento y llegar hasta el centro de la ciudad de destino! El día estaba hermoso, con el sol brillando.



Me compré un pase de transporte para el día y me tomé el metro para ir a dejar las cosas al hostel. El …

... can transform a city, and Barcelona has made good use of what they built. The structures up on Montjeuic (Mountain of the Jews-really) are the most impressive, offering really stunning views. And it is a lovely area with tropical plants and trees. ...

... the world's stage and has left a terrific legacy of public buildings. Taking the cable car up to Castell de Montjuic, (Mountain of the Jews) afforded great panoramic views over the city (through the haze). The Pablo Picasso Museum had us absorbed for a ...

... There is, however, a fascinating Jewish Museum with a large collection of ancient tombstones recovered from Mont Juif (Mountain of the Jews), where the cemetery was originally located. Girona is exceptionally pretty and the houses along the river are ...

... packed, mainly with Spanish students.  On Sunday (we finally got beautiful weather), we took a cable car up to Montjuic (Mountain of the Jews). First we went to the Joan Miro museum, which was cool because it featured a bunch of his older work, but ...

Very interesting how this web site interprets the sites we saw today. Mountain of the Jews is the literal translation of Montjuic. But the name conceals a tragic story. The Jews of Barcelona had a cemetery on the mountain outside the medieval city. In ...

Geddit? Montjuic= "Mountain of the Jews"= Mountain Dew. No? Nevermind. So again we were back to Barcelona, our overnight stop before flying on to Colombia. We stopped at Montjuic, went to the Placa Espanya (where I saw Spain win the world cup last year). ...

... by the time they came to that point, new improved technology would have been invented. We then made our way to Montjuic, (mountain of the Jews).  Unfortunately the gondola ride around the huge park was not working due to maintained.  So we ...

... was 32 degrees today by the way... but at least is was SUNNY!   After the three hour tour, we took the metro to Montjuic (Mountain of the Jews). It is a cliff/mountain with a Castle on the top that overlooks the city and harbor. The castle is from ...