Mirador dels Xiprers

This guide to the Mirador dels Xiprers in Barcelona opens with the noise of a 1909 pumping station on the Llobregat river, straining to force water uphill against gravity. It follows the pipeline it fed, the gravel service road it left behind, and the reservoir workers carved directly into the mountain rock above, along with the family who lived beside it tending the machinery. Look for the older cypress trees along the bend that gave this path its name.