Cementri de Montjuicin Barcelona

Barcelona what a wonderful city it is. I like to come there. It is a city where you can easily immerse yourself in Spanish life without constantly feeling like a tourist among tourists. But maybe this is also a bit because I try to avoid the tourist attractions as much as possible. Who knows, who knows?? During my last visit to Barcelona I really wanted to visit Cementri de Montjuïc. Because I love cemeteries and these seemed so impressive to me that I had to and would go see it. You can already see it lying around when you drive from the airport towards the city on the mountain of Montjuïc. It looks like the cemetery really has become part of the mountain. And it's HIGE big. And so I reserved a day to go there. I started walking (good for my pedometer) and it was a fantastic walk. Okay, maybe it would have been more convenient if I had known a little more exactly how to walk instead of “towards mountain of Montjuïc” but that was not supposed to spoil the fun. It was really fantastic.

MontjuicCemetery

The Montjuiccemetery was opened in 1883as a solution to the lack of space at the Cementiri de Poblenou. It's kind of a minicity of the dead, full of imposing funerary architecture. Some of them belong to renowned artists, such as Josep M. Jujol, Josep Puig i Cadafalch or Eusebi Arnau. Some of Barcelona's most famous residents are buried here: by Joan Gamper (founder ofFC Barcelona) to the artist Joan Miró, the architect of L'Eixample Ildefons Cerdà, or the president of the Generalitat Francesc Macià. In addition, you can admire the only collection of hearses in Europe. Which, by the way, I haven't seen.

The most spectacular way to visit Montjuicis by cable car; the so-calledTeleferic. There are two different cable bans on Mount Montjuïcberg: the Teleferic Aeri del Port which runs from the port of Barcelona to Montjuïc, and the Teleferic de Montjuïc , which takes you to the highest point of the mountain, near the castle of Montjuïc.

View from the mountain

I did not use them because I went for a walk but I did eat and drink at the entrance and exit point of the telephony Aeri del Port and enjoyed the view.

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