Montjuic Barcelona
Approach the area from Plaça d'Espanya (Spain Square) and on the north side you'll see Plaça de Braus Les Arenes, a former bullring where the Beatles played in 1966. Behind it lies Parc Joan Miró, where stands Miró's highly phallic sculpture Dona i Ocell (Woman and Bird).
Nearby, the Palau Nacional houses the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, which has an impressive collection of Romanesque art. Stretching up a series of terraces below the National Palace are fountains, including the biggest, La Font Màgica or the fountain which dances, which comes alive with a free lights and music show on summer evenings. In the northwest of Montjuic is the 'Spanish Village', Poble Espanyol.
At first glance it's a tacky tourist trap,
but it also proves to be an intriguing scrapbook of Spanish architecture,
with very convincing copies of buildings from all of Spain's regions.
The Olympic Ring is the group of sports installations where the
main events of the 1992 games were held. Down the hill, visit
masterpieces of another kind in the Fundacio Joan Miró,
Barcelona's gallery for the greatest Catalan artist of the 20th
century. This is the largest single collection of the his work.
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