Funfare at Tibidabo

It is the city's oldest and only remainingviews across Barcelona and out to sea. The large
entertainment park. Built in 1899, it offers moreland site offers numerous other often traditional
30 different and breathless rides. The mostand unusual rides for both adults and kids, including
democratic is La Atalaya (the watchtower), witha mono-railway, water ride, simulated airplane
its fantastic views. A couple of the unusualflight and a heavyweight Ferris wheel.
19th-century attractive features still exist, like theThis entertainment park combines tradition with
Museo de Automatas (automatic Museum). Nextmodernity the rides from the first of the century
to it stands the modernist-style Church of thecompete with cutting-edge novelties such as the
Sacred eye.hair-raising flying lizard Khan. In summer, the place
It is the oldest entertainment park of Barcelonatakes on a average suchlike atmosphere. The
and fills a surface area of seventy,000 1000s withpeak of the mountain has equaled a democratic
around thirty rides. The Automaton Museum, theretreat for Barcelonese since 1868 when a road
pioneer of the Park, stays from the formerwas built connecting it to the city. Doctor. Andreu
installation. There's a collection of thirty-fivea wealthy pill manufacturer, believing the clean
fantastic automatic tools. There is also themountain air to be beneficial for the health,
renewed Aeromagic, designed in 1935, and thecreated the Sociedad AnĂ³nima de Tibidabo,
airplane, which dates from 1928.which advanced the slopes as a public garden and
Alongside these older attractions, the Park as wellwas instrumental in establishing both the blue tram
as the most modern rides, such as the Tibidaboand funicular through which one accomplishes
express mail and the Viking. Adjacent to the parkthere. Some of the attractive features in the
is the Sagrat Cor (Sacred Heart) Christian church,park date back to his time. L'Avio is a old-time
a modernist temple of neogothic inspiration begunreplica of the first aeroplane that served the
in 1902 along Enric Sagnier and which carried sixtyBarcelona-Madrid route. In the Tibidabo version
years to complete. Josep Miret Llopart wasone are treated to a whisk off over the summit
answerable for the monumental sculpt of thein a toy-like adaptation delayed from a central
Sacred Heart on top of the Christian church.axis. There's also a fascinating museum of period
The known conventional Spanish entertainmentautomatons. There are great deal of other rides
park on the Tibidado Mountain overlookingand attractive features designed to scare one out
Barcelona has been entertaining and holding peopleof his/her mental capacity, but many are
for over 100 years. It's the greatest point of theincreased by the elevated location of the park
urban center and meet the area of impressiveitself.