Travel Reference
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take the Metro to Plaça d'Espanya and ride the escalators up (with some stair-climbing as
well) to those sights.
Getting toMontjuïc:
Youhaveseveral options.Thesimplest istotake a
taxi
directly to
your destination (about €7 from downtown).
Buses
from various points in the city take you up to Montjuïc, including bus #50 (from
thecornerofGranViadelesCortsCatalanesandPasseigdeGràciaintheEixample,orfrom
the Sagrada Família), bus #55 (from Plaça de Catalunya, next to Caja de Madrid building),
and the red Tourist Bus. Alternatively, you could ride the Metro to Plaça d'Espanya, then
take either bus #50 or #193 up the hill.
A
funicular
takes visitors from the Paral-lel Metro stop up to Montjuïc (covered by
Metro ticket, every 10 minutes, 9:00-22:00). To reach the funicular, take the Metro to the
Paral-lel stop, then follow signs for
Parc Montjuïc
and the little funicular icon—you can
enterthefuniculardirectlywithoutusinganotherticket(numberofminutesuntilnextdepar-
ture posted at start of entry tunnel). From the top of the funicular, turn left and walk gently
downhill two minutes to the Joan Miró museum, six minutes to the Olympic Stadium, or 10
minutes to the Catalan Art Museum. If you're heading all the way up to the castle, you can
catch a bus or cable car from the top of the funicular (see castle listing, later).
For a scenic (if very slow) approach to Montjuïc, you could ride the fun circa-1929 Aeri
del Port
cable car
(telefèric)
from the tip of the Barceloneta peninsula (across the harbor,
near the beach) to the Miramar viewpoint park in Montjuïc. (Another station, right along the
port near the Columbus Monument, is currently closed.) Since the cable car is expensive,
loadsexcruciatinglyslowly,andgoesbetweentworelativelyremotepartsoftown,it'sreally
notanefficientconnection.It'sonlyworthwhileforitssweepingviewsovertownorifyou'd
liketo,say,capoffyourMontjuïcdaywithsomebeachtimenearBarceloneta(€10one-way,
€15 round-trip, 3/hour, daily 11:00-19:00, until 20:00 in June-Sept, closed in high wind, tel.
932-252-718).
Getting Around Montjuïc:
Up top, it's easy and fun to walk between the
sights—especially downhill. You can also connect the sights using the red Tourist Bus or
oneofthepublicbusesthatrunsfromdifferentpointsinthecity.Eachbushasaslightly dif-
ferent route:
Bus #193
does a counterclockwise loop around the hilltop and is the only bus
that goes all the way up to the castle; from there, it heads downhill, passing Miramar (cable-
car station), the lower castle cable-car station/top of the funicular, Fundació Joan Miró, and
Plaça d'Espanya before circling back up past CaixaForum, the Spanish Village, the Catalan
Art Museum, and eventually the castle.
Bus #50
goes in both directions—connecting the
cable-car/funicular stations, Fundació Joan Miró, the stadium, the Catalan Art Museum, the
Spanish Village, CaixaForum, and Plaça d'Espanya—but it doesn't go all the way up to the
castle.
Bus#55
connectsonlyMiramar,thefunicular/cable-carstations,FundacióJoanMiró,
and the Catalan Art Museum.
