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Castell de Montjuic - Montjuic castle

Address
Carretera de Montjuïc, 66, Barcelona, Spain, 08038
Telephone
+34 933298613
E-mail
Website
www.bcn.cat/castelldemontjuic
Nearest Metro
Parallel L3
City District
Sants-Montjuic: Montjuïc
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Castell de Montjuic - Montjuic castle
Castell de Montjuic - Montjuic castle Barcelona. The Castell de Montjuïc is located on the highest point of the Montjuic hill at a altitude of 170 metre with great views of Barcelona city and the port area. It is now open to the public and well worth a visit. Admission is free. Montjuic castle was built in 1640 during the war between Catalonia and Spain's Felipe IV, known as the "War of the Reapers." At the beginning of the 18th century Bourbon troops ransacked the castle and then rebuilt it between 1751 and 1779. The new fortress built by the Bourbons was constructed in the form of a starred pentagon with enormous moats, bastions, and buttresses. The castle is infamous in Catalan history books because of its role in the dictator Franco's regime as a place where political prisoners were imprisoned, tortured and executed, among them Lluís Companys, former president of the Generalitat de Catalunya at the beginning of Spain's civil war and executed at Montjuic in 1940. The castle was previously home to the Museu Del Comic I La Illustracio and the Military Museum of Barcelona but both have closed since the castle ownership was returned by the Spanish government to the city of Barcelona in 2008. Since then the castle has been used exclusively for cultural activities in the Montjuïc Park Centre. and the Barcelona Peace Centre. The Barcelona Peace Centre is managed by three administrations, the Spanish and Catalan Governments and the Barcelona City Council.

Opening times:
Open Tuesday to Sunday from 10a.m. to 8 p.m.

How to get to the Castle of Montjuic:
By public transport:
Montjuic funicular train from Parallel Metro station, then take the Montjuic cable car up to the castle or walk from the top of the funicular to the castle. That takes about 10 minutes.

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