Parc del Guinardó
Terraced hillside park of pines, cypress and stone paths climbing toward city and sea views.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Parc del Guinardo in Barcelona starts in 1915, when a father introduced his young son Nicolau Rubio i Tudduri to the French landscape architect Jean Claude Nicolas Forestier, who had just redesigned the gardens beneath the Eiffel Tower. You'll hear how that meeting sent Rubio walking this old vineyard hillside to turn Forestier's Paris sketches into stone terraces, and how the ideas the two of them tested here found their way onto other slopes across the city. Walk the terraces and look out toward the sea.
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