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When it was built in 1929 the Magic Fountain of Montjuic in Barcelona was one of the biggest attractions of the 1929 World Fair and Universal Exposition, which took place in Barcelona the same year.

To this day it remains one of the most famous spots in Barcelona with an estimated 2.5 million visitors annually.







The water cascades and fountains begin at the two venetian towers at Plaza Espanya and go all the way up Avinguda Maria Cristina to the Palau Nacional, the national palace, now home to MNAC, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya.

 





If you visit at the show times you will experience a amazing display of light, music and water which is inspired by the value of water and the need to cherish and preserve it.

The show is a choreographic version of a piece of music called Moldava by the Czech composer Bedrich Smetana, which was inspired by the life that a river creates as it goes on its way.

The director of the Orquestra Simfònica Julià Carbonell from Lleida, Alfons Reverté helped to create the Magic Fountain light show which you can see at the Magic Fountain show times.













The lamps of the Magic fountain are all white, but they are set inside 5-sided prisms, which create part of the magic by generating the amazing changing colours and  shades, when they rotate around the white lamps.







The wonderful lighting technique was brilliantly designed by engineer Carles Buïgas and is still in use to this day!