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PARC DEL CENTRE DEL POBLENOU
Park
( Avinguda Diagonal; 10am-sunset; Poblenou)
Barcelona is sprinkled with parks whose
principal element is cement, and Jean Nouvel's Parc del Centre del Poblenou, with its
stylised metal seats and items of statuary, is no exception. However, the park's Gaudí-in-
spired cement walls are increasingly covered by sprawling bougainvillea and, inside,
some 1000 trees of mostly Mediterranean species are complemented by thousands of
smaller bushes and plants.
EL FÒRUM
Neighbourhood
( El Maresme Fòrum)
Before there was wasteland, half-abandoned factories and a huge
sewage-treatment plant in the city's northeast corner. Now there are high-rise apartments,
luxury hotels, a marina (Port Fòrum), a shopping mall and a conference centre.
The most striking element is the eerily blue, triangular
2001: A Space Odyssey
-style
Edifici Fòrum
building by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron.
A 300m stroll east from the Edifici Fòrum is the
Zona de Banys
, with kayaks and
bikes available for rent, the option to learn diving, and other activities. This tranquil sea-
water swimming area was won from the sea by the creation of massive cement-block
dykes. At its northern end, like a great rectangular sunflower, an enormous photovoltaic
panel turns its face up to the sun to power the area with solar energy.
In summer, a weekend
amusement park
sets up with all the usual suspects: rides,
shooting galleries, snack stands, inflatable castles and dodgem cars.
The
Parc de Diagonal Mar
, designed by Enric Miralles, contains pools, fountains, a
didactic botanical walk (with more than 30 species of trees and other plants) and modern
sculptures.
MUSEU BLAU
Museum
(Blue Museum; ; 93 256 60 02; Parc del Fòrum; adult/child €6/2.70; 10am-7pm Tue-Fri, to 8pm Sat
& Sun; El Maresme Fòrum)
Set inside the vaguely futuristic Edifici Fòrum, the Museu
Blau, which opened in 2011, takes visitors on a journey all across the natural world. Mul-
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