Tibidabo Amusement Park
Hilltop amusement park with a rotating vintage airplane ride and sweeping city views.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Tibidabo Amusement Park in Barcelona opens in 1927, when Spain's first commercial flight landed in the city and pharmacist Salvador Andreu — who had spent three decades building this hilltop into a playground — decided Barcelona should feel flight without leaving the ground. It follows the building of his tethered flying replica, the Avió, which opened in 1928, and Andreu's death only ten days later. Listen for the hidden radio station installed inside the aircraft years afterward.
This audio guide was created using AI.
Similar places
Tibidabo Funicular
Historic mountainside railway climbing a steep wooded slope in cabins nicknamed the firefly.
Telefèric de Montjuïc (Montjuïc Cable Car)
Glass gondola climbing to a hilltop fortress, with sweeping views over the port and old town.
Poble Espanyol
Open-air replica Spanish town of one hundred seventeen full-scale buildings gathered from every region.
Temple of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
Neo-Gothic mountaintop basilica crowned by a giant bronze Christ, built over nearly six decades of atonement.