Park to all parks
A highlight of Catalonia, a flight of fancy, a crazy adventure, call it what you will. You can forget about Gaudi's custom buildings, you can't give a damn about the Rambla, you can never be able to overcome Montjuc and Tibidabo, but not to visit Parc Gü ell is not forgivable. It will lead the Top 5 and give odds to contemporary museums. The park is beautiful, incomparable and unlike anything in my life.
The park is located on a mountain, so if you take binoculars, you can see Montjuc, and Tibidabo, and Sagrada, as well as the crazy buildings of Barcelona and, of course, the sea.
Not even the tourist bus dares to get close to him. And climbing up the mountain on foot, leaving the subway, does not insert at all. By the way, the nearest metro station is Lesseps, where the hell is located. We tried to reach it on our way back, but we gave up half way, riding a bus that went to Placa Catalynya. There is an option via Vallcarca metro.
A little closer, but still far away, and you will enter the park, somewhere on the side.
It was optimal to get to the Joanic metro, and then take a small bus number 116 as a companion. By the way, when you exit the metro, there will be several bus stops. Find the one where there is a schedule for exactly the 116th.
We traveled by bus for 12 minutes, about 5 stops. I carefully asked my grandmother where to get off, and in the end, the whole bus commented on the trip and how many stops were left. A friendly team unanimously announced our station - Park Gü ell. Although you will notice it yourself, as it stops just beyond the gate to the park itself.
As soon as we approached the gate, my nerves could not stand it and I began to photograph without quenching. Everything is striking: the guard houses, the stairs, the market with columns, and the bench. Before visiting, I recommend reading information on the Internet or buying a guidebook at the entrance. It costs about ten, but is in Russian.
Without it, you will miss a lot and then you will bite each other's elbows.
The park is thought out, like everything else from the author. All details are incomparable, practical and memorable.
Entrance to the park is completely free. But you will need to pay 5.50 for the entrance to the Gaudi House Museum (There are all sorts of combo tickets for fans. I know that the Gaudi House Museum and Sagrada together cost 16.5, or 13 and 5.50 separately. There are some other combinations with other objects). A genius lived and worked in this house for 20 years. On 2 floors, rooms are presented in their residential condition, objects from houses built by him, as well as models and developments. To complete the image, you should definitely visit the museum. Although, if you are not impressed with this man and the ship, then for you it will not be the most substantial mansion.
After the house, you should definitely make your way up the mountain in order to reach Calvary, the highest place in the park, which has an associated significance, along winding paths.
The park is both wonderful and a little pity that you, as a tourist, are forced to gallop through it in order to have time to see the rest.
Schoolchildren from Barcelona schools visit the park for a different purpose. Educated teachers give students some printouts with tasks related to observation and quick wits. So these schoolchildren are worn either in groups or singly, looking for the desired object or information. Bundles of Arabs do not lag behind them, also running around the park not just like that, but with a task. In their folded sheets, they carry magnets and decorations at ridiculous prices. And they run away because the policemen in light green sleeveless jackets move slowly around the park behind them, not allowing the natives to take away the proceeds from the souvenir shops. Here are the Arabs, not much different from children, and they move in groups, stand on the nix, have fun and cry at the same time.
