Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
MUSEU ETNOLÒGIC
Museum
(
www.museuetnologic.bcn.cat
;
Passeig de Santa Madrona 16-22; adult/senior & student €3.50/1.75;
noon-8pm Tue-Sat, 11am-3pm Sun; 55)
Barcelona's ethnology museum presents a curious
permanent collection that explores how various societies have worked down the centuries,
as seen through collections of all sorts of objects. The entire museum was closed at the
time of writing for major refurbishments. Check the website for reopening date.
JARDÍ BOTÀNIC
Gardens
(
www.jardibotanic.bcn.es
;
Carrer del Doctor Font i Quer 2; adult/student €3.50/1.70; 10am-8pm;
50, 61 or 193)
This botanical garden is dedicated to Mediterranean flora and has a collection
of some 40,000 plants and 1500 species that thrive in areas with a climate similar to that
of the Mediterranean, such as the Eastern Mediterranean, Spain (including the Balearic
and Canary Islands), North Africa, Australia, California, Chile and South Africa.
CEMENTIRI DEL SUD-OEST
Cemetery
( 8am-6pm; 193)
On the hill to the south of the Anella Olímpica stretches this huge
cemetery, the Cementiri del Sud-Oest or Cementiri Nou, which extends down the southern
side of the hill. Among the big names are Joan Miró, Carmen Amaya (the flamenco dance
star from La Barceloneta), Jacint Verdaguer (the 19th-century priest and poet to whom the
rebirth of Catalan literature is attributed), Francesc Macià and Lluís Companys (national-
ist presidents of Catalonia; Companys was executed by Franco's henchmen in the Castell
de Montjuïc in 1940), Ildefons Cerdà (who designed L'Eixample) and Joan Gamper (the
founder of the FC Barcelona football team, aka Hans Gamper). Many victims of Franco's
postwar revenge were buried in unmarked graves here - the last of them in 1974. From
the 193 bus stop, it's about an 800m walk southwest. Otherwise, bus 38 from Plaça de
Catalunya stops close to the cemetery entrance.
MUHBA REFUGI 307
Historic Site
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